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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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Show Me Your Ways - October 12, 2017

October 12, 2017

How does your body respond when you recite today’s psalm aloud with sincerity and gusto? You’ve not read it yet? Try it now before you continue reading the rest of this...

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Show Me Your Ways - October 11, 2017

October 11, 2017

In the four verses from Exodus 32, Moses builds a convincing case that averts God’s wrath against the Israelites. By mentioning God’s powerful involvement and mighty intervention in bringing the people...

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Show Me Your Ways - October 10, 2017

October 10, 2017

What does God’s monologue to Moses in today’s scripture remind you of? Does it sound like the prologue of a judge who is about to sentence a group of lawbreakers? Or...

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Supplicate, Sing, and See - October 9, 2017

October 9, 2017

The Israelites who follow Moses out of Egypt have experienced some significant traumas! During the liberation process from the oppressive Pharaoh, they have crossed the parted Red Sea and witnessed the...

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God’s Grace in Life’s Disorder - October 8, 2017

October 8, 2017

I suppose everybody has a favorite house. My childhood memories still gather in the spacious, rambling rooms of my aunt’s home. My eye roams from the vastness of the wraparound porch,...

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God’s Grace in Life’s Disorder - October 7, 2017

October 7, 2017

Jesus’ journey has at last brought him to Jerusalem. Daily he teaches in the Temple courtyard where disciples would gather around their various rabbis to hear the word of God interpreted,...

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God’s Grace in Life’s Disorder - October 6, 2017

October 6, 2017

I often wonder if Paul’s contemporaries doubted his sanity; or, at the least, wondered that he made up what he said had happened to him. “You say you met this Jesus...

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God’s Grace in Life’s Disorder - October 5, 2017

October 5, 2017

Paul, an extremely righteous man under the law, observed all the commandments. His outrage with the people claiming that Messiah had come led him to persecute them. But then something happened...

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God’s Grace in Life’s Disorder - October 4, 2017

October 4, 2017

Nowhere in scripture is the unity and order of God’s creation more eloquently displayed than in Psalm 19. Nature and humanity exist in perfect harmony. For humanity’s part, the law of...

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God’s Grace in Life’s Disorder - October 3, 2017

October 3, 2017

The people Israel stood skeptically before a rock at Meribah, waiting for Moses to produce some water in the wilderness. “What did you bring us out here for, to kill us...

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