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Sunday, July 23: Return
Sunday, July 23: Return “You will be blessed when you are out and about and blessed when you come back.” -Deuteronomy 28:6 Consider: All that you have experienced this week. People you have encountered. Places you have been. Things you have learned. Emotions you have felt. In just one week, we take in so much…
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Sunday, July 23: Renewal
Sunday, July 23: Renewal “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul.” -Psalm 23:1-3a Consider: God knows we need rest and renewal; the psalmist is trying to remind us of that. The past 7 days have…
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Saturday, July 22: Connect
Saturday, July 22: Connect “In the same way, though there are many of us, we are one body in Christ, and individually we belong to each other.” -Romans 12:5 Consider: We belong to each other….but we forget our belonging when we are far away from one another. We often find ourselves separated by geography, by…
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Friday, July 21: Breaking Bread
Friday, July 21: Breaking Bread “After he took his seat at the table with them, he took the bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. 31 Their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he disappeared from their sight.” -Luke 24:30-31 Consider: It was only after Jesus broke bread with the…
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Thursday, July 20: Serve
Thursday, July 20: Serve “And serve each other according to the gift each person has received, as good managers of God’s diverse gifts.” -1 Peter 4:10 Consider: In the early church, (from the Acts of the apostles to about 400CE), the posture of the missionary was that of a servant. The apostles and earliest Christians…
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Wednesday, July 19: Listen
Wednesday, July 19: Listen “Know this, my dear brothers and sisters: everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to grow angry.” -James 1:19 Consider: Remember the story of Mary and Martha in Luke 10. Martha hurried around the house getting everything ready for dinner, while Mary sat at the feet of…
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Tuesday, July 18: Curiosity
Tuesday, July 18: Curiosity “It is the glory of God to hide something and the glory of kings to discover something.” -Proverbs 25:2 Consider: God is a mystery. Over time, God has revealed a lot to us about who God is, but much remains unknown as well. Part of faith is being curious. Our curiosity…
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Monday, July 17: Pause
Monday, July 17: Pause “Pause a moment Job, and listen; consider the wonderful things God does.” -Job 37:14 Consider: all that Job has been through. His life has been so up-ended that it no longer looks like the life he knew before. And in the midst of him trying to process what’s going on, he…
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Sunday, July 16: Departure
Sunday, July 16: Departure “The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.” -Numbers 6:24-26 Consider: departing as a spiritual act…perhaps one we do not think of often. We can also call…
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Sunday, July 16
Sunday, July 16 Music – The Chorister’s Prayer – Philip Stopford https://youtu.be/RGNTyZjHL8I Prayer Focus: The Chorister’s Prayer first appeared in The Choirboy’s Pocket Book, published by the Royal School of Church Music in England in 1934. Bless, O Lord, us thy servants who minister in thy temple; Grant that what we sing with our lips,…