MORNING GRACE
Begin your morning with a devotional dive into scripture. I hope that they have meaning for you on your daily journey. Unless otherwise noted, all passages are from The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible

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As I said, my favorite song from Jesus Christ Superstar is "Gethsemane." And here is the version that I always turn to. From the 1973...
Befriending Death: Remove this cup
They went to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” He took with him Peter and James and John...
Befriending Death: Cloud of Witnesses
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so...
Befriending Death: We will be changed
What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the...
Befriending Death: We are the Lord's
For we do not live to ourselves, and we do not die to ourselves. If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so...
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Who would have guessed that the rock band Bon Jovi would give us such a faith-filled, uplifting song of inclusion - reminding us of God's...
From Exclusion to Inclusion: One Body
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For...
Exclusion to Inclusion: Who's Coming to Dinner?
And as (Jesus) sat at dinner in Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were also sitting with Jesus and his disciples, for there...
Exclusion to Inclusion: Love your neighbor as yourself
“You shall not defraud your neighbor; you shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a laborer until morning. You...
Exclusion to Inclusion: The Great Equalizer
The rich and the poor have this in common: the Lord is the maker of them all. ~ Proverbs 22:2 Doesn't it sometimes feel as if we forget...
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No Psalm expresses so fully the journey from sorrow to joy than Psalm 30. There are many songs based on this Psalm, but I thought this...
Sorrow to Joy: Recognizing the Joy in front of you
Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other...
Sorrow to Joy: Moving from suffering
Then Job answered the Lord: “I know that you can do all things and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. ‘Who is this that hides...
Sorrow to Joy: Trusting God
There was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham son of Elihu son...
Sorrow to Joy: Morning after the Mourning
I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up and did not let my foes rejoice over me. O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and...
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Nothing can separate us from God's love. Here is a song based on this famous verse from Romans. Meditate on it. Listen to it a few times...
Fear to Love: Out of the storm
And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. A windstorm suddenly arose on the sea, so great that the boat was being...
Fear to Love: Perfect Love Casts out Fear
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached...
Fear to Love: Nothing can separate us
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height,...
















