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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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The Grammar of the Divine - January 24, 2024

January 24, 2024

When we place ourselves humbly at God’s feet and seek to learn, we find that we receive wisdom. The psalmist has experienced delight while observing “the faithful and just works of...

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The Grammar of the Divine - January 23, 2024

January 23, 2024

The psalmist calls us to join our voices celebrating God’s divine attributes. The “works of God’s hands,” the psalmist proclaims, should be “studied.” At four intervals in the hymn of praise,...

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The Grammar of the Divine - January 22, 2024

January 22, 2024

Moses himself was an example of one who was selected to reveal the extraordinary. And in today’s reading, we hear through Moses that God declares, “I will raise up for them...

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God’s Time and God’s Call - January 21, 2024

January 21, 2024

The division that emerged over how to respond to the pandemic has only highlighted the deep divides that were already present beneath the surface. There are times when I wonder if...

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God’s Time and God’s Call - January 20, 2024

January 20, 2024

Though Mark’s writing is concise, this scene from the Galilean seaside is evocative. Jesus is walking along the water’s edge watching the fisherman in their boats a little way off shore,...

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God’s Time and God’s Call - January 19, 2024

January 19, 2024

If there is a perfect season to wait for God in silence, it must be winter. During this time of year all of creation seems to slow down and cozy up....

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God’s Time and God’s Call - January 18, 2024

January 18, 2024

When Jonah first hears God’s voice calling him to go to Nineveh, he does not drop what he’s doing and follow God’s lead like the disciples in Mark’s Gospel. He does...

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God’s Time and God’s Call - January 17, 2024

January 17, 2024

The immediacy of Mark has always been startling to me. With no birth story to ease us into the life of Jesus, we are thrown right in with a wild character...

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God’s Time and God’s Call - January 16, 2024

January 16, 2024

Yesterday we read Paul’s words to the Corinthians urging them to put our time here on earth into perspective in the light of Christ. Today we turn to the Psalms for...

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God’s Time and God’s Call - January 15, 2024

January 15, 2024

I was in the passenger’s seat of my friend’s red, late 90s Pontiac Grand Prix when he ran a red light and pulled directly into oncoming traffic, resulting in another vehicle...

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