Category: Devotional

  • Be Still and Know

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    “Be still and know that I am God.”  I bet you’ve heard that one before –  in church, or in a worship song, or a sermon or devotional. We like this one. So we quote it to one another frequently. At least that’s been my experience. I wonder have you ever read the Psalm in READ MORE →

  • Upping our game

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    If Lent is a time to “up our game” when it comes to our faith practices, I wonder how that’s going? Has the concept of Lent traditionally being a time of prayer, fasting and giving inspired you lately? Maybe thinking of Lent as an invitation to simplify or slow down is more helpful that upping READ MORE →

  • a flock of birds flying above open hands as if they were held and released, with a sunset in the background, and text reads "Letting Go as a Spiritual Practice"

    Letting go as a Spiritual Practice

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    Happy New Year! I hope you’ve each found time to connect with God, family and friends during this holiday season. We’ve had a lovely visit to Michigan to see family, and we really enjoyed celebrating Christmas Eve a day early on zoom with so many of you! My parents and sisters enjoyed meeting you all READ MORE →

  • It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

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    “It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas.”  This seems like a relevant lyric for today. Snow’s in the forecast, tomorrow begins the third week of Advent, and my “to do” list is getting harder to face. How about you? I know I need the support of practicing my faith in community to stay present READ MORE →

  • Declaring Peace

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    14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, 16 and in one body to reconcile both of them READ MORE →

  • Grateful Greetings

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    “I heard of the solid trust you have in the Master Jesus and your outpouring of love to all the followers of Jesus, I couldn’t stop thanking God for you—every time I prayed, I’d think of you and give thanks. But I do more than thank. I ask—ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, READ MORE →

  • More than an ox

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    My social media feed is reminding me to start thawing the turkey this weekend. So now I know, Thanksgiving is definitely around the corner!  30 I will praise God’s name in songand glorify him with thanksgiving.31 This will please the Lord more than an ox,more than a bull with its horns and hooves. Psalm 69:30–31 This passage actually makes me READ MORE →

  • Wonderful

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    I’m writing this on a sunny, windy Saturday and the view out my 2nd floor window currently is one of pretty awesome trees displaying their fall colors. One is deep red, and the other is a yellow that’s almost golden. It’s good to take notice even for a moment of the beautiful things God made. READ MORE →

  • Acts 2 community

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    “42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. 46 Every day they continued READ MORE →

  • Perfect unity

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    12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. 15 Let the peace of READ MORE →