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God Is In the Waters

Kaji Douša “This is my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased.” – Matthew 3:17 (NRSV) I was talking to someone the other day who...

UCC Daily Devotional: Humility and Unity

Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us, for we have endured no end of contempt. We have endured no end of ridicule from the arrogant,...

UCC Daily Devotional: Longing for Sanctuary

I have looked upon thee in the sanctuary, beholding thy power and glory. - Psalm 63:2 (RSV) Tradition has it that Psalm 63 was composed...

UCC Daily Devotional: Vashti

On the seventh day [of the banquet], when the king was merry with wine, he commanded the eunuchs who attended him to bring Queen Vashti...

UCC Daily Devotional: Virtual Shepherds

Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, watching over them – not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants...

UCC Daily Devotional: Insatiable Truth

Jesus answered, “You’ve come looking for me not because you saw God in my actions but because I fed you, filled your stomachs – and for...

UCC Daily Devotional: What's in a Name?

I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not welcome us. Not satisfied with that, he even refuses to welcome...

UCC Daily Devotional: Don't Congratulate a Cat on its Landing

Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. - Galatians 6:2 (NIV) When I was a child, my mother...

UCC Daily Devotional: Q Source

But remember, dear friends, that the apostles of our Master, Jesus Christ, told us this would happen: “In the last days there will be...

UCC Daily Devotional: Our Steady Center

Praise the Lord! O give thanks to the Lord, for God is good; for God’s steadfast love endures forever. - Psalm 106:1 (NRSV) In my early...

UCC Daily Devotional: Talking Points

The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still confined in the court of the guard. Thus says the Lord: In this...

UCC Daily Devotional: The Repairman

“There was a widow in that town who kept coming to the judge with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’” - Luke 18:3 (NIV) ...

UCC Daily Devotional: What We Will Be

Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when Christ is revealed, we will...

UCC Daily Devotional: It's in Our DNA

The Lord their God, who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. - Psalm 146:7 (NRSV) Psalm 146 should be...

UCC Daily Devotional: Charming Disarmament

A woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit came and bowed down at Jesus’ feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician...

UCC Daily Devotional: The Stories We Tell

For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth … so shall my word be that...

UCC Daily Devotional: Why I Don't Wear a WWJD Bracelet

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee...

UCC Daily Devotional: Sleepless Nights

You kept my eyes from closing; I was too troubled to speak. I thought about the former days, the years of long ago; I remembered my songs...

UCC Daily Devotional: Hateful Christians and Certain Love

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? - Psalm 27:1...

UCC Daily Devotional: You Are So Special, You Know

What are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and...