Raeford Presbyterian Church

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06/02/2026

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You Are AcceptedFrom: Finding Our Way Home in an Age of AnxietyThe first love says, “I loved you before you could love a...
06/02/2026

You Are Accepted
From: Finding Our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety
The first love says, “I loved you before you could love anyone or before you could receive love from anyone. I have accepted you. You are accepted. You are loved no matter what mother, father, brother, sister, school, church, society does. You are born out of my love. I have breathed you out of my love. I have spoken you out of my love. You are the incarnation of my love and in me there is no hatred, there is no revenge, there is no resentment. There is nothing that wants to reject you. I love you. Can you trust that love?
The original love is the original blessing.
The original love is the original acceptance.

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Reflection Question: What difference would it make if you fully accepted that there is nothing in God that wants to reject you?

“If God is for us, who can be against us?”
- Romans 8: 31

Small Signs Of God's PresenceFrom: Gracias: A Latin American JournalOur salvation comes from something small, tender, an...
06/02/2026

Small Signs Of God's Presence
From: Gracias: A Latin American Journal
Our salvation comes from something small, tender, and vulnerable, something hardly noticeable. God, who is the Creator of the Universe, comes to us in smallness, weakness, and hiddenness.
I find this a hopeful message. Somehow, I keep expecting loud and impressive events to convince me and others of God's saving power; but over and over again, I am reminded that spectacles, power plays, and big events are the ways of the world. Our temptation is to be distracted by them and made blind to the “shoot that shall sprout from the stump.”
When I have no eyes for the small signs of God's presence – the smile of a baby, the carefree play of children, the words of encouragement and gestures of love offered by friends – I will always remain tempted to despair.
The small child of Bethlehem, the unknown man of Nazareth, the rejected preacher, the naked man on the cross, he asks for my full attention. The work of salvation takes place in the midst of a world that continues to shout, scream, and overwhelm us with its claims and promises. But the promise is hidden in the shoot that sprouts from the stump, a shoot that hardly anyone notices.

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Reflection Question: Where can you find small signs of God's presence in your life?

“A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.”
- Isaiah 11:1

Celebrating God's LoveFrom: Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian PerspectiveThe divine ecstatic joy ...
06/01/2026

Celebrating God's Love
From: Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective
The divine ecstatic joy of the house of love becomes manifest in celebration. Celebration marks the life of the disciple of Jesus as well as the life of his new community. The disciple leaves behind the old life in search of a new life. For every disciple as well as for the entire fellowship, following the Lord involves celebration, the ongoing, unceasing lifting up of God's love that has proved itself victorious. Celebration is the concrete way in which God's ecstatic joy becomes visible among us.

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Reflection Question: What wishes are you holding on to - and how might they interfere with nurturing a sense of hope?

“And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.”
- Mark 2: 22

Letting Go Of My WishesFrom: Finding My Way Home: Pathways to Life and the SpiritI have found it very important in my ow...
06/01/2026

Letting Go Of My Wishes
From: Finding My Way Home: Pathways to Life and the Spirit
I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I am finding that when I choose to let go of my sometimes petty and superficial wishes and trust that my life is precious and meaningful in the eyes of God, something really new, something beyond my own expectations begins to happen for me.

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Reflection Question: How might I let go of my wishes and live in hope today?

“Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.”
- Psalm 20: 7

05/31/2026

May 31, 2026
Welcome.

Living At The Place Of InnocenceFrom: Finding Our Sacred CenterI know that I am called to live at the place of innocence...
05/29/2026

Living At The Place Of Innocence
From: Finding Our Sacred Center
I know that I am called to live at the place of innocence – the place where Jesus chose to live. There he made his home and asks me to make mine. In that place I am loved and well held. There I do not have to be afraid. And from there I can forgive and heal and make things new….
I know that every time I choose for my innocence, I don't have to worry about the next ten years. I can simply be where I am, listening, seeing, touching in the very moment, always sure that I am not alone but with him who called me to live as God's child.

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Reflection Question: How might I choose to live at the place of innocence today?

“Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only speak the word, and my servant will be healed.”
- Matthew 8:8

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05/28/2026

The June Link...

A Place To DwellFrom: Heart Speaks to Heart: Three Gospel Meditations on JesusYour heart, Jesus, is so full of the desir...
05/28/2026

A Place To Dwell
From: Heart Speaks to Heart: Three Gospel Meditations on Jesus
Your heart, Jesus, is so full of the desire to love me, so aflame with a fire to warm me. You so much want to give me a home, a sense of belonging, a place to dwell, a shelter where I feel protected and a refuge in which I feel safe. You stand at so many squares and corners of my life and say with so much tenderness, “Come and see, come and stay with me. When you are thirsty, come to me…. you who put your trust in me, come and drink. Come, you who are tired, exhausted, depressed, discouraged and dispirited. Come, you who feel pain in your body, fatigue in your anxious mind and doubt and anguish in the depth of your heart.

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Reflection Question: Where do you sense Jesus tenderly calling you?

“I long to dwell in your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of your wings.”
- Psalm 61: 4

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128 W Edinborough Avenue
Raeford, NC
28376

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