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Thursday Prayer: The Upper Room
Jesus, after you ascended, your disciples gathered in an upper room - not impressive leaders but ordinary people, not confident believers but fearful followers, not a massive movement but 120 people in one room. Yet that's where the church was born. That's where your Spirit came. That's wh
Thursday Read: The Upper Room - Where Fear Becomes Mission
After Jesus ascended to heaven, the disciples returned to Jerusalem and gathered in an upper room. Acts 1:13-14 lists them by name - Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. The eleven remaining apost
Wednesday Prayer: Rendering to Caesar and to God
Jesus, the Pharisees tried to trap you with a tax question and you answered with perfect wisdom: render to Caesar what is Caesar's, to God what is God's. You acknowledged earthly authority's legitimate claims while establishing God's ultimate claims. Help me live in that tension. I confes
Wednesday Read: Tax Day and Rendering to Caesar
April 15 is Tax Day in the United States - the annual deadline for filing federal income tax returns. Americans collectively pay over $2 trillion in federal taxes annually, making this deadline a source of anxiety, frustration, and resentment for millions. Nobody enjoys calculating what th