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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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Navigating Life with God - June 17, 2025

June 17, 2025

There are moments when we each yearn for God’s presence. Spiritual thirst is a common human experience. We can find comfort in knowing that God is always able to quench our...

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Navigating Life with God - June 16, 2025

June 16, 2025

Psalm 42 reminds us that we have the freedom to be honest with ourselves and with God. The psalmist’s words invite us to reflect on the importance of sharing our true...

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The Gift of Divine Connection - June 15, 2025

June 15, 2025

When Wisdom yells, “My cry is to all who live,” she is breathing divine grace to us. That grace is wisdom. Wisdom is a divine attribute of God. Wisdom does not...

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The Gift of Divine Connection - June 14, 2025

June 14, 2025

The Spirit of truth, the Advocate that Jesus promises to send, is a presence we can trust. The Holy Spirit functions as a bridge of communication between God and humankind, and...

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The Gift of Divine Connection - June 13, 2025

June 13, 2025

I am an only child. My parents constantly joked that “if we had more kids, we would have gotten the child we actually deserved,” because I was, in their words, an...

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The Gift of Divine Connection - June 12, 2025

June 12, 2025

Wisdom calls out to us, her people. From her vantage point at the town gate, she sees the frustrations and difficulties of her community, and she empathizes with them. I experience...

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The Gift of Divine Connection - June 11, 2025

June 11, 2025

In times of great turmoil, I feel the presence of God. Not everyone does, and I think this is because we as human beings are often distracted by our own pain....

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The Gift of Divine Connection - June 10, 2025

June 10, 2025

When I am really excited about something, I can’t sit still. I become so invested in what I am passionate about that I cannot stop talking about it. When I began...

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The Gift of Divine Connection - June 9, 2025

June 9, 2025

The psalmist compliments “the work of [God’s] fingers” in verse 3, and I envision the first quilt I made. While not as majestic as the heavens or the stars and moon,...

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The Promised Holy Spirit - June 8, 2025

June 8, 2025

We continue to look at the ministry of the Holy Spirit. These verses convey Jesus’ final message to his disciples as recorded in the Gospel of John. He speaks of the...

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