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The Upper Room Disciplines provides an opportunity to look more deeply at scripture by offering a week of devotions by a single author on a particular theme.

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Waiting for the Light - February 6, 2018

February 6, 2018

As a child, I was both terrified and tantalized by The Wizard of Oz. The Wicked Witch of the West scared me, but I loved Glinda, the Good Witch of the...

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Waiting for the Light - February 5, 2018

February 5, 2018

Today is my birthday and, like every day since I turned thirteen, I will put in my contact lenses in order to see clearly. I have astigmatism. The prefix, a means...

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Imagining Now - February 4, 2018

February 4, 2018

Questions abound in Isaiah 40: Have you been paying attention? Who is like God? The questions continue in these verses: “Have you not known? Have you not heard?” In other words,...

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Imagining Now - February 3, 2018

February 3, 2018

Have you ever walked away from a tense conversation won-dering what caused you to get so worked up? Something was at stake for you that surprised you and caused a defensive...

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Imagining Now - February 2, 2018

February 2, 2018

The hidden way of God is the way of becoming whole. How do we reconcile a biblical witness of God’s own self being revealed with the Son of God working to...

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Imagining Now - February 1, 2018

February 1, 2018

At work in the world is a force of wholeness. It can be unseen and misunderstood, overlooked and discounted. At the heart of the created order resides the heart of the...

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Imagining Now - January 31, 2018

January 31, 2018

Do you remember working to learn the right answers so when the questions were asked you could raise your hand and speak the answer, receiving acknowledgment for being a good student?...

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Imagining Now - January 30, 2018

January 30, 2018

Isaiah poses many questions, questions that are spoken out into the world, pointing to that which can’t be contained in a single answer. Can we link remembering to imagining into the...

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Imagining Now - January 29, 2018

January 29, 2018

The people of Israel had to adjust their understanding of what God was up to when the Babylonians took them into exile. They felt abandoned by God. Now the prophet asks...

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The Word in Our Heart - January 28, 2018

January 28, 2018

The first Sunday in February each year, I participate in the annual Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics Delaware. Each year I plunge my whole body into the forty-degree Atlantic Ocean...

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