Recent Devotions from Centreville UMC
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Our Wandering Wise Men – December 1Being very wise in their own eyes, Gaspar, Balthasar, and Melchior were dismayed to find themselves stuck in a preschool classroom. And in a dollhouse no less, with a door that could not be opened. The wise men threw their hands up in the air in frustration. Gaspar sighed, “It
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Does Kids Quest really work?While our grandchildren were visiting from Arizona we included them in as many of our regular church activities as possible. They do not attend church at home. Landon (age 11) and Mya (age 8) helped us pack produce for Grace Ministries and Landon helped feed our homeless brothers and sisters
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4×4 Reading ChallengeJoin us in reading 2 Corinthians while we are in our "In the Storm" sermon series. This is a 4x4 challenge: read from 2 Corinthians 4 days a week over the next 4 weeks. We’ve laid out a reading plan for you, and will provide you with some additional material
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June DevotionThis month's devotion was written by Kim Noble: Matthew 25:34-39 (NIV) Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave
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Devotion 5-26-23Earlier this month, CUMC hosted an Aging Gracefully event, which focused on caregivers and resources available to those serving in this role. Kim Noble has written the devotion below, reflecting on how God graciously equips us when God calls us to care for others. Proverbs 16:9 (NIV) "In their hearts
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The Small MomentsIs God, in your mind, too big to be about the small? God scattered the stars into the sky when He created the heavens. God sits on His throne and rules for all eternity. But we miss out when we think God is only about the big eternal things. God
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Easter DevotionColossians 3:1-4 So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden
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Lenten Devotion Day 40 – Holy SaturdayPsalm 22:1-3 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer; and by night but find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on
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Lenten Devotion – What’s So Good About Good Friday?Isaiah 53: 5-6 But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him
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Lenten Devotion – The Agony in the Garden1 Corinthians 11:23-26 For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you.
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Lenten Devotion Day 37 – Journey to the CrossJohn 13:21-26 After saying this Jesus was troubled in spirit and declared, “Very truly, I tell you, one of you will betray me.” The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he was speaking. One of his disciples—the one whom Jesus loved—was reclining close to his heart; Simon Peter therefore motioned to
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Lenten Devotion Day 36 – PerseveranceHebrews 12:1-2 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 closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith, who for
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Lenten Devotion Day 35 – Chaos to WholenessJonah 2:5-7 The waters closed in over me; the deep surrounded me; weeds were wrapped around my head at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the Pit, O Lord my God. As my life was
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Lenten Devotion Day 34 – RedeemedRomans 5:1-5 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, knowing
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Lenten Devotion Day 33 – Who Am I?Psalm 121: 1-5 I lift up my eyes to the hills— from where will my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor
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Lenten Devotion Day 32 – Expressions of Faith2 Corinthians 5:17-20 So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was
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Lenten Devotion Day 31 – My Prayer for YouIsaiah 43:1b-3 Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and
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Lenten Devotion Day 30 – Unlikely TeachersJohn 15: 4-9 Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them
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Lenten Devotion Day 29 – TestifyMatthew 5:14-16 “You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. 15 People do not light a lamp and put it under the bushel basket; rather, they put it on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. 16 In the same way, let
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Lenten Devotion Day 28 – Kind and GivingMatthew 25:34-40 Then the king will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world, for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to
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Lenten Devotion Day 27 – Fill Your CupJohn 4:13-14 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”
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Lenten Devotion Day 26 – Coffee and Community1 Corinthians 13:1-3 If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove
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Lenten Devotion Day 25 – Stewardship of Your Talents & Abilities1 Peter 4:8-11 Above all, maintain constant love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without complaining. Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received. Whoever speaks must do so as one speaking
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Lenten Devotion Day 24 – An Abundant GodMatthew 6:25-29 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor
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Lenten Devotion Day 23 – Jesus-Like GenerosityMatthew 6:19-21 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there
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