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UCC Daily Devotional: An Heirloom of Our Faith

Now while Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment, and...

UCC Daily Devotional: Redesigning Beauty

God has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and...

UCC Daily Devotional: Redesigning Beauty

God has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and...

UCC Devotional: Play to Pray

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to...

UCC Daily Devotional: Revive Us Again

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me. - Psalm 138:7 (KJV) I don’t often read, much less quote, the King James...

UCC Daily Devotional: The Fragility of Mappability

Jacob charged them, saying, “Bury me with my ancestors – in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave in the field at...

UCC Daily Devotional: Blessed Are The Broken

My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. - Psalm 51:17 (NIV) Pre-Covid, I...

UCC Daily Devotional: Everything is Cancelled

Out of the depths I cry to you, God; God, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. If you, God, kept a record...

UCC Daily Devotional: The Grace of Being Wrong

Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him about whom Moses and the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth.”...

UCC Daily Devotional: Fear

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not...

UCC Daily Devotional: Head Blessings

How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head. - Psalm 133:1-2a (NRSV) ...

UCC Daily Devotional: Elementary

“Shake the dust off your feet…” - Matthew 10:14 (NIV) I was having a tiresome conversation with a rising second grader (my grandson)...

UCC Daily Devotional: Killers Like Me

You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with...

UCC Daily Devotional: Let's Talk about Giving

For God so loved the world, that God gave... - John 3:16 (NRSV) There’s no better place to begin a consideration of what we should give...

UCC Daily Devotional: Social Distance Violations of the Bible

Jesus got up from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself. Then he poured water into a basin and began to...

UCC Daily Devotional: Going Places

Two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, and talking with each other about all that had happened. While they were talking,...

UCC Daily Devotional: In Hiding

“You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that...

UCC Daily Devotional: Too Busy for an Angel

Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. - Hebrews...

UCC Daily Devotional: Cut to the Heart

When the people heard [the story of Jesus], they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “What should we do?”...