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Sermon Series Journal

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Dear UALC family,

“Who am I that I should I go?”

Every fall for several years now we have read a storyline through the Old Testament. Then in the winter and spring we read one of the Gospels and part of the New Testament. Every year, God speaks to us new words through his word.

“Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh?” That question on the lips of Moses (in Exodus 3:11) represents a word that I hear God pressing on my heart and mind this year. At one level, it’s just relatable. Most of us wonder at least sometimes whether we’re really up to all the challenges that confront us – and get anxious because we are not.

But I also hear two things that I want to learn to hold together:

1. God keeps accomplishing his good purposes through unlikely people in unlikely places against long odds. It’s God’s work, and he will do it.

2. God also keeps doing it in and through the gifts and circumstances of those specific people. As small as we are, we matter to God and his work.

Moses didn’t have the ability to overcome Pharaoh’s oppression and lead Israel to freedom. But that didn’t put him on sidelines. God used who Moses was where Moses was to do his good work.

I think the same thing is true for us, and I encourage you to listen for words like these from God to you as we read and learn not only about Moses, but also Abraham and Sarah, Hannah and Samuel, King David, and other people and events in the Bible this fall.

You may be an unlikely person in unlikely circumstances facing long odds. But God is faithful. And you are part of his people in Christ, and you have a role to play by his Spirit at work in you, through you where you are.

In God’s word with you,

HOW TO USE THIS JOURNAL

This journal will help you dig deeper into our teaching series as you tie together the areas of our Gathered Worship, personal time with God (Daily Worship), and Small Groups. It also shares information about UALC to help you connect with others as you grow in your faith. Bring your journal to Gathered Worship and use it throughout the week as you identify the next steps God is calling you to during this series.

Gathered Worship

Write whatever you find encouraging, compelling, or challenging from the Sunday services.

Daily Worship

Write prayers, things you are thankful for, and areas of spiritual growth as you invite God into your day.

Small Groups

Write big ideas, prayer requests, and areas of application from your small group discussion.

LEARNING THE STORY

Reading the Old Testament can be difficult for one simple reason: it’s really long. Even though some of its passages are beloved and familiar to many (like reading about the Garden of Eden and the parting of the Red Sea this fall), it can be easy to lose your place in the story. Whenever we read the Old Testament – or any part of the Bible – it helps to know your way around.

In the beginning we read that God created a beautiful world. Human beings are created as the image of God. They live harmoniously together with God, with one another, and with the rest of creation. And they are charged with a responsibility to serve God and partner with God to bring forth the flourishing of the world. But the humans give in to temptation. They abandon their calling and choose disobedience, which leads to judgment, crisis, and death. And yet God is not defeated, nor does he give up on his creatures. In week 1 of our series, we will learn important lessons from these stories of creation and fall (in Genesis 1–2).

God is committed to his creation and will not abandon it, or us. The Bible says that God calls and makes a covenant with Abraham and Sarah and their descendants. Some people say that God calls Abraham to deal with the problem of Adam. The family of Abraham and Sarah will live a complicated history as the nation of Israel, but they are called to know God and make God known in the world that has rebelled against him. In weeks 2 and 3 of our series, we will read the founding stories of God’s Abrahamic covenant (in Genesis 12 and 15).

In the following generations this family grows. Abraham and Sarah have a son named Isaac. Isaac and Rebekah are the parents of famous twins, Jacob and Esau. Jacob takes the name Israel, and his sons become the ancestors of 12 tribes.

Through famine, crisis, and family conflict, the children of Israel find themselves in Egypt. They grow and flourish and become numerous. But after many years the Egyptians enslave the Israelites, who cry out to God for rescue. In weeks 4, 5, and 6 of our series, we will learn about Moses, whom God calls to rescue Israel, and about the saving events of Passover and the Exodus (in Exodus 3, 12, and 14). Like the characters before him, God works through Moses – both in spite of him and also in and through him.

The Israelites journey through the wilderness back to the land that God promised their ancestors. Because of their faithlessness it takes them 40 years, but they cross the Jordan River at Jericho and settle in the land. For hundreds of years, God provides leadership to his people by raising up leaders called judges. Gideon, Samson, and Deborah are famous examples among these leaders. The last leader of this era is Samuel. In week 7 of our series, we will read the story of Hannah and her son Samuel (in 1 Samuel 1–2). Like every character in God’s story, they are unlikely heroes facing long odds. But God redeems their story and works and in and through them.

God uses Samuel to anoint the kings of Israel after the period of judges. He anoints first Saul, a highly esteemed figure who later disobeys God, and then David who was overlooked by everyone else but loved God. God makes a further promise to David and Israel, that a king in David’s line will lead and save them forever. We will read about that promise and how it starts off in week 8 of our series (in 2 Samuel 7).

As optimistically as the line of David begins, it quickly falls apart. The leaders of Israel become divided against one another. Disobedience, injustice, and idolatry are multiplied, and it’s hard to see any hope. God sends prophets to call his people to repentance, including a figure named Jeremiah, whose words are later quoted by Jesus himself. Jeremiah’s words are not well received in his own day, but God speaks a promise through Jeremiah, a promise to make and empower a new covenant with Israel, a covenant that will overcome their weakness and accomplish his purposes again. We will read the story of this promise in week 9 at the end of our fall series (in Jeremiah 31 and 36), along with other related promises as we plan to celebrate the birth of Jesus at Christmas and learn again to receive his hope and follow in his way.

GENESIS 2:4B–7; 2:15–3:7

4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” 18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” 19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.

But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. 25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

What I found encouraging, compelling, or challenging from the Sunday service:

My major takeaway from this week’s sermon:

DAILY WORSHIP

What God is bringing to my attention this week as I read and pray:

Notes and prayer:

SMALL GROUPS

Something I’d like to discuss from the sermon or my personal time with God:

My group’s prayer requests:

Small group conversation notes:

NOTES & PRAYER

Genesis 12:1–9

1 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

2 “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord 9 Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

What I found encouraging, compelling, or challenging from the Sunday service:

My major takeaway from this week’s sermon:

DAILY WORSHIP

What God is bringing to my attention this week as I read and pray:

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SMALL GROUPS

Something I’d like to discuss from the sermon or my personal time with God:

My group’s prayer requests:

Small group conversation notes:

NOTES & PRAYER

God’s Covenant

WITH ABRAHAM

Genesis 15:1–6

After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision:

1 “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”

2 But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.”

4 Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” 5 He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”

6 Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

What I found encouraging, compelling, or challenging from the Sunday service:

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NOTES & PRAYER

MOSES

EXODUS 3:1–15

Exodus 3:1–15

1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”

4 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”

And Moses said, “Here I am.”

5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” 6 Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

12 And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.”

13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”

14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers— the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’

“This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation.

What I found encouraging, compelling, or challenging from the Sunday service:

My major takeaway from this week’s sermon:

DAILY WORSHIP

What God is bringing to my attention this week as I read and pray:

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SMALL GROUPS

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NOTES & PRAYER

God Promises

PASSOVER

EXODUS 12:1–13

Exodus 12:1–13

1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household.

4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. 5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. 7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.

8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.

9 Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs. 10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. 11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover.

12 “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord.

13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.

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DAILY WORSHIP

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NOTES & PRAYER

God Parts

THE SEA

EXODUS 14:5–14, 21–29

Exodus 14:5–14, 21–29

5 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!” 6 So he had his chariot made ready and took his army with him. 7 He took six hundred of the best chariots, along with all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them.

8 The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly. 9 The Egyptians—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, horsemen and troops—pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi Hahiroth, opposite Baal Zephon.

10 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord. 11 They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

12 Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”

13 Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. 14 The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, 22 and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.

23 The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea. 24 During the last watch of the night the Lord looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion. 25 He jammed the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, “Let’s get away from the Israelites! The Lord is fighting for them against Egypt.”

26 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.”

27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward it, and the Lord swept them into the sea. 28 The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.

29 But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.

What I found encouraging, compelling, or challenging from the Sunday service:

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DAILY WORSHIP

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God Answers

HANNAH

1 SAMUEL 1:9–11, 2:1–10

1 Samuel 1:9–11,

2:1–10

Once when they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his chair by the doorpost of the Lord’s house. 10 In her deep anguish Hannah prayed to the Lord, weeping bitterly. 11 And she made a vow, saying, “Lord Almighty, if you will only look on your servant’s misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the Lord for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head.”

Then Hannah prayed and said:

“ My heart rejoices in the Lord; in the Lord my horn is lifted high. My mouth boasts over my enemies, for I delight in your deliverance.

2 “There is no one holy like the Lord; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.

3 “Do not keep talking so proudly or let your mouth speak such arrogance, for the Lord is a God who knows, and by him deeds are weighed.

4 “The bows of the warriors are broken, but those who stumbled are armed with strength.

5 Those who were full hire themselves out for food, but those who were hungry are hungry no more.

She who was barren has borne seven children, but she who has had many sons pines away.

6 “The Lord brings death and makes alive; he brings down to the grave and raises up.

7 The Lord sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts.

8 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; he seats them with princes and has them inherit a throne of honor.

“For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s; on them he has set the world.

9 He will guard the feet of his faithful servants, but the wicked will be silenced in the place of darkness.

“It is not by strength that one prevails;

10 those who oppose the Lord will be broken.

The Most High will thunder from heaven; the Lord will judge the ends of the earth.

“He will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

What I found encouraging, compelling, or challenging from the Sunday service:

My major takeaway from this week’s sermon:

DAILY WORSHIP

What God is bringing to my attention this week as I read and pray:

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SMALL GROUPS

Something I’d like to discuss from the sermon or my personal time with God:

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NOTES & PRAYER

2 Samuel 7:1–16

1 After the king was settled in his palace and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies around him, 2 he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”

3 Nathan replied to the king, “Whatever you have in mind, go ahead and do it, for the Lord is with you.”

4 But that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying:

5 “Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord says: Are you the one to build me a house to dwell in? 6 I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought the Israelites up out of Egypt to this day. I have been moving from place to place with a tent as my dwelling. 7 Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their rulers whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’

8 “Now then, tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, and appointed you ruler over my people Israel. 9 I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name great, like the names of the greatest men on earth. 10 And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning 11 and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders over my people Israel. I will also give you rest from all your enemies.

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“‘The Lord declares to you that the Lord himself will establish a house for you: 12 When your days are over and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, your own flesh and blood, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands. 15 But my love will never be taken away from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. 16 Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever.’”

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DAILY WORSHIP

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God Promises

A NEW COVENANT

JEREMIAH 36:1–8, 21–23, 27–28; 31:31–34

Jeremiah 36:1–8, 21–23, 27–28; 31:31–34

1 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah and all the other nations from the time I began speaking to you in the reign of Josiah till now. 3 Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about every disaster I plan to inflict on them, they will each turn from their wicked ways; then I will forgive their wickedness and their sin.”

4 So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and while Jeremiah dictated all the words the Lord had spoken to him, Baruch wrote them on the scroll. 5 Then Jeremiah told Baruch, “I am restricted; I am not allowed to go to the Lord’s temple. 6 So you go to the house of the Lord on a day of fasting and read to the people from the scroll the words of the Lord that you wrote as I dictated. Read them to all the people of Judah who come in from their towns. 7 Perhaps they will bring their petition before the Lord and will each turn from their wicked ways, for the anger and wrath pronounced against this people by the Lord are great.”

8 Baruch son of Neriah did everything Jeremiah the prophet told him to do; at the Lord’s temple he read the words of the Lord from the scroll.

21 The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and Jehudi brought it from the room of Elishama the secretary and read it to the king and all the officials standing beside him. 22 It was the ninth month and the king was sitting in the winter apartment, with a fire burning in the firepot in front of him.

23 Whenever Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll, the king cut them off with a scribe’s knife and threw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll was burned in the fire.

27 After the king burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 28 “Take another scroll and write on it all the words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah burned up.

31 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.

32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord.

33 “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord.

“I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

34 No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord.

“For I will forgive their wickednes and will remember their sins no more.”

What I found encouraging, compelling, or challenging from the Sunday service:

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DAILY WORSHIP

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RESOURCES & INFO

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Our daily pursuit to grow in relationship with God typically looks like daily Bible readings and prayer. However, it can also include disciplines like fasting, confessing, journaling, simplicity, solitude, and stewarding talents and resources.

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The mission of UALC is to be and to make disciples of Jesus Christ. We believe that God has called us to be an Oasis of His kingdom for a dry and thirsty world. We envision a future where we are so well-watered in the love and truth and Spirit of Christ that it transforms our life together, and people who encounter our church community would say, “see how they love one another,” to the glory of God.

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