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DISCIPLESHIP & CHARACTER This week, our conversation about discipleship looks to the important issue of character and holiness. If discipleship is mirroring Christ, then that includes living and acting like him. Fortunately, we’ve got help. Prayer Holy God — our...

DISCIPLESHIP & SUFFERING For our discussion about discipleship this week, let’s take a look at the role suffering plays in our call to mirror Christ, the one who suffered and died — and then rose again — for us.  Prayer Holy God — our Creator, Redeemer, and...

DISCIPLINE Over the next three to four weeks, I’d like us to engage in some hands-on Bible study on the topic of discipleship. I’ve always thought “discipleship” took on a whole new meaning when we consider its relationship to the word discipline. It becomes harder,...

KINDNESS Prayer God of Love who became of one kind with us and calls us one of your own, guide us this morning by your Word and your Holy Spirit, so that in your light we might see light, and in your truth, we might find freedom, and in your will, we might truly...

SAVED Prayer God of Salvation, please guide us this morning by your Word and your Holy Spirit, so that in your light we might see light, and in your truth, we might find freedom, and in your will, we might truly discover peace through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen....

ACTIVISM For our devotion today, I thought I’d talk about how I came to see Jesus as addressing large social change — what we today might call “activism” — as well as the change of individual hearts and minds. Over the past few weeks, since the murder of George Floyd...

LAMENT Maybe what I love most about the Bible is how real and honest it is. We can find the whole range of human emotion in there, including the “negative” side of things: anger, jealousy, rage, grief, depression, sadness. The Bible doesn’t assume that life is going...

REQUIRED Prayer God who weeps for us and with us, please guide us this morning by your Word and your Holy Spirit, so that in your light we might see light, and in your truth, we might find freedom, and in your will, we might truly discover peace through Jesus Christ...

INTERPRET Jesus’ ascension, which we celebrate today, might be the most forgotten holy day of the Christian year. That’s too bad, really. Without the ascension of the Lord, we don’t get Pentecost. If Jesus doesn’t leave us and ascend into heaven, the Holy Spirit...