This week’s featured book: Shaped by the Word by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.   Today’s Reflection The need to read the Bible formationally is as great now as it was when Bob [Mulholland] first wrote this book. . . . Without the kind of reading that Bob commends, we run the risk of having what […]

This week’s featured book: Psalms for Black Lives by Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes, Andrew Wilkes   Today’s Reflection Praise is communal! When we honor God for who God has been to us, it is also time to honor who God has been to our communities, to our families, to our organizations, and more. —Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes and Andrew

This week’s featured book: Psalms for Black Lives by Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes, Andrew Wilkes   Today’s Reflection He’s got nothing left. But the powerful thing is he is still calling upon God. He doesn’t let the lack of response keep him from going to God in prayer. —Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes and Andrew Wilkes, Psalms for Black Lives:

This week’s featured book: Psalms for Black Lives by Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes, Andrew Wilkes   Today’s Reflection Ancestors are connectors. They unfold a bridge toward us, connecting our faltering belief to a more ancient faith, granting access to a tradition wider than our own interests, and rooting us in identities stronger than the powers and principalities

This week’s featured book: Psalms for Black Lives by Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes, Andrew Wilkes   Today’s Reflection Entrusting our thoughts and intentions to the Lord . . . is simultaneously a humbling and empowering practice. Humbling because we desire God’s acceptance of our speech. Empowering because the one from whom we seek approval is our Strength.

This week’s featured book: Psalms for Black Lives by Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes, Andrew Wilkes   Today’s Reflection In hard times, our experiences stir up doubts about whether God truly cares for us, but here we are reminded about the good news that the divine pledge of hesed, of loving-kindness for humanity and all creation, is ever-present.

This week’s featured book: Psalms for Black Lives by Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes, Andrew Wilkes   Today’s Reflection Hope and confidence nudge us to ask an urgent question: “How much do we really trust God?” . . . If we choose, today, we can put our dreams, relationships, jobs, prayers, and our very lives, underneath God’s more

This week’s featured book: Psalms for Black Lives by Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes, Andrew Wilkes   Today’s Reflection In truth, each of us has the capacity to be wicked. Each of us has the capacity to turn on those we love, to seek what we desire regardless of how it affects others. —Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes and Andrew Wilkes,

This week’s featured book: Writings of Toyohiko Kagawa by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection Yes, through the reception of the Holy Spirit, even the most insignificant of people could enter for the first time into joy of fellowship with God. —Edited by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, The Upper Room Spiritual Classics: Writings of Toyohiko Kagawa (Upper