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Contemplating Healing - Biblical Insight
This devotional reflection emphasizes the importance of seeing healing through God's wisdom and responding with love and grace. It encourages believers to engage in transformative actions that not only foster personal growth but also serve and bring hope to others in their communities.
Spiritual Insight: Diversity & Inclusion - Biblical Insight
This devotional reflection encourages individuals to view Diversity and Inclusion through a biblical lens, seeking God's guidance to embody love and grace in their interactions. It emphasizes the importance of being a light in the darkness, promoting hope and healing in the community while drawing others closer to God.
Quiet Time: Immigration and Welcome - Story
This devotional reflection emphasizes the importance of viewing immigration and welcome through the lens of God's love and justice. It encourages individuals to engage compassionately with these issues, aiming to transform both personal lives and the broader world into a kingdom of justice and peace.
Quiet Time: Clobbering the Clobber Texts - Prayer
This devotional prayer emphasizes the importance of viewing personal struggles through the lens of divine love and justice. It encourages individuals to engage with challenging texts in a way that promotes compassion and transformation, both personally and in the wider world.
Morning Meditation: Folly - Story
This devotional reflection emphasizes the importance of recognizing Folly in one's life and responding with God's wisdom and love. It encourages believers to engage with their surroundings in a way that honors God and serves others, highlighting the transformative power of a devoted life.
Spiritual Insight: Political Division & Unity - Story
The devotional encourages reflection on the themes of political division and unity, urging individuals to seek God's wisdom and respond with love and grace. It emphasizes the importance of being a light in challenging times and serving others in a way that honors God.
Contemplating Healing - Prayer
This devotional emphasizes the importance of healing through God's wisdom and grace. It encourages individuals to reflect on their personal growth while also serving others and being a light in the darkness. The call to engage with healing highlights the transformative power of faith in both personal and communal contexts.
Contemplating Advent - Prayer
This devotional emphasizes the importance of engaging with Advent as a time for reflection and transformation. It encourages individuals to seek God's wisdom and guidance in their lives, aiming to be a source of hope and healing for others. The message highlights that personal growth should lead to serving and transforming the world around us.
Spiritual Insight: Hospitality - Prayer
This devotional emphasizes the importance of Hospitality as a reflection of God's love and grace. It encourages individuals to engage in acts of service that honor God and transform their surroundings, highlighting the communal aspect of faith and personal growth.
Prayerful Hell - Story
This devotional encourages reflection on personal struggles, symbolized as 'Hell', while seeking God's wisdom and grace. It emphasizes the importance of being a light in darkness and serving others through transformation, ultimately fostering hope and healing in the world.
Prayerful Climate Change and Hope - Prayer
This devotional emphasizes the importance of engaging with issues of Climate Change through a lens of love and justice, inspired by biblical teachings. It encourages individuals to reflect on their role in promoting hope and healing in the world, aligning their actions with God's character to foster transformation and justice.
Contemplating Life - Story
The devotional encourages reflection on how to engage with life through the lens of God's love and wisdom, as exemplified in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. It emphasizes the importance of being a light in the darkness and serving others, highlighting that personal growth is intertwined with transforming the world around us.
Contemplating Life - Prayer
This devotional emphasizes the importance of reflecting God's love and grace in our lives while engaging with the world around us. It encourages believers to seek wisdom and guidance from God, aiming to be a source of hope and healing for others. Ultimately, it highlights that personal growth is intertwined with serving and transforming the community.
Daily Holy Spirit - Prayer
This devotional emphasizes the importance of engaging with the Holy Spirit to reflect God's wisdom and grace in our lives. It encourages believers to be a source of hope and healing in the world, highlighting the transformative power of faith not only for personal growth but also for serving others.
Daily Political Division & Unity - Biblical Insight
This devotional reflection encourages individuals to seek God's wisdom in navigating political division and unity. It emphasizes the importance of responding with love and grace, while also being a source of hope and healing in challenging times.
Quiet Time: Digital Addiction & Freedom - Prayer
This devotional prayer focuses on seeking God's guidance in overcoming digital addiction and finding freedom through His wisdom. It emphasizes the importance of reflecting God's love and grace in our actions while serving others and being a source of hope and healing.
Contemplating Healing - Story
This devotional reflection emphasizes the importance of healing in one's life through the lens of God's wisdom. It encourages individuals to engage with their healing journey in a way that honors God and serves others, highlighting the transformative power of faith in both personal and communal contexts.
Contemplating We are Imago Dei - Story
This devotional reflection emphasizes the importance of recognizing the divine image in all people and responding with love and justice. It encourages individuals to engage actively in transforming their surroundings through compassion and hope, aligning their actions with God's character to promote justice and peace in the world.
Daily A Better Political Imagination - Story
This devotional reflection emphasizes the importance of engaging with political issues through a lens of love and justice, inspired by biblical wisdom. It encourages individuals to reflect on their role in transforming the world and embodying God's character in their actions.
Evening Prayer: Women and Church Leadership - Biblical Insight
This devotional reflects on the role of women in church leadership and encourages engagement with this topic through a lens of love and justice. It emphasizes the importance of personal transformation to effect change in the world, aligning one's actions with God's character of compassion and justice.
Daily Nonviolent Resistance - Prayer
This devotional emphasizes the importance of engaging in Nonviolent Resistance through the lens of God's love and justice. It encourages individuals to reflect on their actions and strive for transformation in themselves and the world, embodying compassion and hope in their pursuit of justice.
Prayerful Enemy Love - Story
This devotional reflection emphasizes the importance of responding to 'Enemy Love' with compassion and justice, inspired by the teachings of Jesus in Matthew 22:37-39. It encourages individuals to engage in transformative actions that reflect God's love and work towards justice and peace in the world.
Daily Global Pandemic & Community - Story
The devotional reflects on the impact of the Global Pandemic on community life, encouraging individuals to seek God's wisdom and guidance. It emphasizes the importance of responding with love and grace while being a source of hope and healing for others. The prayer invites believers to consider their role in serving and honoring God during challenging times.
Morning Meditation: Leading Toward Peace - Prayer
This devotional emphasizes the importance of leading toward peace through compassion and justice, reflecting God's love in our actions. It encourages individuals to engage with their communities in transformative ways that honor the divine image in all people, ultimately working towards a world of justice and peace.