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Books New Every Morning About X Home Books New Every Morning About Login Forgot password? Remember me You can login using your social profile [wordpress_social_login] New Every Morning daily reflections from Upper Room Books New every morning is your love, great God of light, and all day long you are working for good in the world. Stir up in us desire to serve you, to live peacefully with our neighbors and all your creation, and to devote each day to your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. "A Liturgy for Morning Prayer," Upper Room Worshipbook Used by permission from the Book of Common Worship , © 2018 Westminster John Knox Press. All rights reserved. This prayer appears in A Liturgy for Morning Prayer” in Upper Room Worshipbook . The Sun New Every Morning | May 14, 2024 This week’s featured book: Holy Spirit Here and Now by Trevor Hudson , Foreword by Scot McKnight Today’s Reflection We can compare God’s love to the sun. It is the sun’s nature to give warmth and light. The sun always shines, always radiates its warmth and light. The sun cannot act against its essential nature. Nor can we can stop it from shining. We can allow its light to fill our senses and make us warm; alternately, we can separate ourselves from its rays by putting up an umbrella or going indoors. But whatever we may do, we know that the sun does not change its essential nature. In the same way, the God revealed to us in Jesus always loves. Like the shining sun, God’s love never ceases. In every moment of our lives, God sends out the warm rays of divine love. This is where the Holy Spirit comes in. If the sun represents God in Jesus Christ, we could say that the sun’s rays represent the Holy Spirit. So to be touched by the Holy Spirit is to be touched by God’s love. Likewise, to be filled with the Holy Spirit is to be filled with God’s love. —Trevor Hudson, Holy Spirit Here and Now (Upper Room Books, 2013) Today’s Question What has been your most recent experience of God’s love and grace? [question from Holy Spirit Here and Now] Join the conversation . Today’s Scripture God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. —Romans 5:5 (NRSVUE) Prayer for the Week New every morning is your love, great God of light, and all day long you are working for good in the world. Stir up in us desire to serve you, to live peacefully with our neighbors and all your creation, and to devote each day to your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. — A Liturgy for Morning Prayer,” Upper Room Worshipbook Submit your prayer to The Upper Room . Something More Amid the fullness of spring, are you longing for sacred rest? Take a pause, rediscover sabbath, and reset your soul with three life-giving resources from Upper Room Books. Learn more here . Lectionary Readings (Courtesy of Vanderbilt Divinity Library) Day of Pentecost Acts 2:1-21 or Ezekiel 37:1-14 Psalm 104:24-34, 35b Romans 8:22-27 or Acts 2:1-21 John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 Looking for lectionary-based resources? Learn more about The Upper Room Disciplines. 0 Comments | Join the Conversation.Far Beyond New Every Morning | May 13, 2024 This week’s featured book: Holy Spirit Here and Now by Trevor Hudson , Foreword by Scot McKnight Today’s Reflection When God gives us the Holy Spirit, God gives us nothing less than God’s own self—an important emphasis. The Holy Spirit is God here today, present with you and me, right now. Some other metaphors and symbols used in the Bible to describe the Holy Spirit—words like water, fire, breath, wind—can sometimes suggest that the Holy Spirit is only something divine.” But the Holy Spirit moves far beyond an impersonal something” to be a Someone.” When we cry out from our depths, Come, Spirit, come,” we are crying out for the Lord to come and personally fill our lives. —Trevor Hudson, Holy Spirit Here and Now (Upper Room Books, 2013) Today’s Question What are your earliest memories of God’s love and grace in your life? [question from Holy Spirit Here and Now] Join the conversation . Today’s Scripture [Jesus said,] "I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever." —John 14:16 (NRSVUE) Prayer for the Week New every morning is your love, great God of light, and all day long you are working for good in the world. Stir up in us desire to serve you, to live peacefully with our neighbors and all your creation, and to devote each day to your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. — "A Liturgy for Morning Prayer," Upper Room Worshipbook Submit your prayer to The Upper Room . Something More Amid the fullness of spring, are you longing for sacred rest? Take a pause, rediscover sabbath, and reset your soul with three life-giving resources from Upper Room Books. Learn more here . Lectionary Readings (Courtesy of Vanderbilt Divinity Library) Day of Pentecost Acts 2:1-21 or Ezekiel 37:1-14 Psalm 104:24-34, 35b Romans 8:22-27 or Acts 2:1-21 John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 Looking for lectionary-based resources? Learn more about The Upper Room Disciplines. 5 Comments | Join the Conversation.Going and Staying New Every Morning | May 12, 2024 This week’s featured book: This Life That Is Ours by Lauren Burdette Today’s Reflection The tension of sacrifice draws me into closer relationship. Sometimes the relationship I’m tending means that I explain to my children why I won’t be available to tuck them in one night. Sometimes I’m drawn into closer relationship with my children, and I focus my energy on them. Our sacrifices and our choices remind us that we are all image-bearers, and every relationship is holy. On whomever I focus my attention, I have the chance to see the face of Christ. —Lauren Burdette, This Life That Is Ours: Motherhood as Spiritual Practice (Upper Room Books, 2019) Today’s Question How have decisions of sacrifice shaped you and led you deeper into the holiness God is growing in you? Join the conversation . Today’s Scripture Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, you should do it all for God’s glory. —1 Corinthians 10:31 (CEB) Prayer for the Week Dear God, may I see my moments of strength and my moments of weakness as invitations to draw more closely to you. Amen. [prayer adapted from from This Life That Is Ours ] Submit your prayer to The Upper Room . Something More While personal reflection is the most popular use of The Upper Room daily devotional, did you know there are many other ways to use it in your ministry? Here are eight of our favorite ways to encourage daily life with God in your congregation (and beyond) with The Upper Room . Read more here . Lectionary Readings (Courtesy of Vanderbilt Divinity Library) Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 Psalm 1 1 John 5:9-13 John 17:6-19 Looking for lectionary-based resources? Learn more about The Upper Room Disciplines. 2 Comments | Join the Conversation.Strong and Weak New Every Morning | May 11, 2024 This week’s featured book: This Life That Is Ours by Lauren Burdette Today’s Reflection Our weaknesses invite us to lean into God, to know that we cannot and need not do it alone. Weaknesses remind us of our human limits and our dependence. But God comes in our strength too. Like all our virtues, our strength is a grace from the Lord, a gift of the Holy Spirit, who lives in us. May we see our moments of strength and our moments of weakness as invitations to draw more closely to God. —Lauren Burdette, This Life That Is Ours: Motherhood as Spiritual Practice (Upper Room Books, 2019) Today’s Question When have you come face to face with your weaknesses? When have you been surprised by your strength? [questions from This Life That Is Ours ] Join the conversation . Today’s Scripture [The Lord] said to me [Paul], My grace is enough for you, because power is made perfect in weakness.” So I’ll gladly spend my time bragging about my weaknesses so that Christ’s power can rest on me. —2 Corinthians 12:9 (CEB) Prayer for the Week Dear God, may I see my moments of strength and my moments of weakness as invitations to draw...