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2015 Advent | Seasonal Devotions
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Written by members of the Union Presbyterian Seminary community. This painting, created by Heather Jones (2nd year, M. Div.), stands in Watts Hall at Union Presbyterian Seminary this Advent Season. 2015 Advent Devotion, written by Union Presbyterian Alumni. Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 773 other followers. Wednesday, March 15. Monday, March 13. Wednesday, March 8. Monday, March 6. Ash Wednesday, March 1.
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January | 2016 | Seasonal Devotions
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Written by members of the Union Presbyterian Seminary community. January 20, 2016. January 20, 2016. First, we would like to thank everyone for your kind comments and messages during our Advent devotions last month! We are very excited to let you know that we have some fantastic teams hard at work on a series for Lent. If you subscribed to this blog for our Advent devotions, you do not need to do anything further! Grace, Peace, and Joy. Rev Jordan B. Davis. Where we highlight the ministry of individual c...
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Tuesday, December 20 | Seasonal Devotions
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Written by members of the Union Presbyterian Seminary community. Tuesday, December 20. December 20, 2016. October 25, 2016. Luke 1: 5-25, selected verses. For use with the MORNING Daily Prayer). You know the music doesn’t just end there. Often Christmas is about the birth of Christ but there is much more. Baby in the manger, chorus of angels, shepherd, sheep, donkey, wise men and camels bring back fond memories of growing up in a church. That is only the beginning! You see, Christmas is only the beginnin...
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Monday, December 19 | Seasonal Devotions
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Written by members of the Union Presbyterian Seminary community. Monday, December 19. December 19, 2016. December 2, 2016. He also told them a parable: Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? A disciple is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully qualified will be like the teacher. Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit;. But the one who hear...
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Seasonal Devotions | written by members of the Union Presbyterian Seminary community | Page 2
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Written by members of the Union Presbyterian Seminary community. December 24, 2016. October 25, 2016. Then his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke this prophecy:. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,. For he has looked favorably on his people and redeemed them. He has raised up a mighty savior. In the house of his servant David,. As he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,. That we would be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us. Rather than t...
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Christmas Day | Seasonal Devotions
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Written by members of the Union Presbyterian Seminary community. December 25, 2016. October 25, 2016. Dear friends, let’s love each other, because love is from God, and everyone who loves is born from God and knows God. The person who doesn’t love does not know God, because God is love. This is how the love of God is revealed to us: God has sent his only Son into the world so that we can live through him. Dear friends, if God loved us this way, we also ought to love each other. 1 John 4: 7-16 (CEB).
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Friday, December 23 | Seasonal Devotions
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Written by members of the Union Presbyterian Seminary community. Friday, December 23. December 23, 2016. October 25, 2016. Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him Zechariah after his father. But his mother said, No; he is to be called John. For, indeed, the hand of the Lord was with him.
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Wednesday, December 21 | Seasonal Devotions
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Written by members of the Union Presbyterian Seminary community. Wednesday, December 21. December 21, 2016. October 25, 2016. In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,. To a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you. But she was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. Luke 1: 26-38 (NRSV).
