Andy Hoffman

This week’s featured book: The Upper Room Disciplines 2027 by   Today’s Reflection In a place of loss and humiliation, [Job] chooses faithfulness over bitterness. Ashes—a symbol of grief and ruin—become the setting in which Job’s reverence for God is most clearly revealed. —Penny Story, The Upper Room Disciplines 2027: Daily Devotions Based on the […]

This week’s featured book: The Upper Room Disciplines 2027 by   Today’s Reflection We are people of this sacred covenant, an extension of the covenant God made with David. What does it mean to be people of the covenant? We can trust God with confidence as David did, and go to God for guidance. —Don

This week’s featured book: The Upper Room Disciplines 2027 by   Today’s Reflection The world tells me that my body is either a problem to be fixed or a commodity to be exploited. But contemplative practice invites something else: to be fully present to my embodied self with tenderness and care. —Aizaiah G. Yong, The

This week’s featured book: The Upper Room Disciplines 2027 by   Today’s Reflection The birth of the church is not a quiet, gentle arrival—it comes with wind and fire, chaos and confusion, with languages and new voices. . . . The Spirit comes as a holy disrupter that ignites and transforms the people. —Grace Ji-Sun

This week’s featured book: The Upper Room Disciplines 2027 by   Today’s Reflection What an amazing thing, in such a moment when we are all struggling, that God can show up and extend grace, another chance, an opportunity to be healed. —Sandhya Jha, The Upper Room Disciplines 2027: Daily Devotions Based on the Revised Common

This week’s featured book: The Upper Room Disciplines 2027 by   Today’s Reflection The days of darkness may persist. This is when we look for rainbows, for reminders of past blessings, for glimpses of light in those around us. This is when we gather, cry out for mercy, ask not to be put to shame,

This week’s featured book: The Upper Room Disciplines 2027 by   Today’s Reflection Planet Earth is just one of billions and billions of planets spinning their way through an even more immense universe. To think that the Creator of all this knows us, thinks of us, cares for us, loves us! —Michael Jackson, The Upper

This week’s featured book: Writings of Augustine by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection God gives you space for correction, but you love the delay of judgement more than the amendment of your ways. Have you been bad yesterday? Today be good. Have you gone on in wickedness today? At any rate change tomorrow. —Augustine,

This week’s featured book: Writings of Augustine by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection Never is anything done by you that God does not do in you. Sometimes, indeed, God does in you what is not done by you. But never is anything done by you if God does not do it in you. —Augustine,

This week’s featured book: Writings of Augustine by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection There are three things that go to complete sin: the suggestion of, the taking pleasure in, and the consenting to. . . . Once all this has taken place, we are driven forth, as it were, from paradise into death. —Augustine,