Daily Devotions from the United Reformed ChurchService for Sunday 10th October Photo Credit: Mick Haupt Unsplash The Rev’d Alex Clare-Young Intro: Topsy Turvy Hello and welcome to today’s Daily Devotions service from the United Reformed Church. I’m Alex Clare-Young: I am in the final full-time year of my PhD, sponsored by the Council for World Mission, exploring the […]
URC Daily Devotion October 9 2021
Saturday 9th October 2021 Hebrews 10:23-25 Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful. And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and […]
URC Daily Devotion 8th October 2021
Friday 8th October 2021 Service 5 Luke 13:10-17 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called […]
URC Daily Devotion 7th October 2021
Service 4 Matthew 8:1-4When Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him; and there was a leper who came to him and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean.’ He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, ‘I do choose. Be made clean!’ Immediately […]
URC Daily Devotion 6th October 2021
Service 3 Isaiah 58: 6 – 7Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke,to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house;when you see the naked, to […]
URC Daily Devotion 5th October 2021
Service 2 St Luke 9:10-17On their return the apostles told Jesus all they had done. He took them with him and withdrew privately to a city called Bethsaida. When the crowds found out about it, they followed him; and he welcomed them, and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who […]
URC Daily Devotion 4th October 2021
St John 13: 1-17 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son […]
URC Daily Devotions Sunday Service for 3rd October 2021 – The Revd. Dr Walter Houston
Daily Devotions from the United Reformed Church Service for Sunday 3rd October 2021The Rev’d Dr Walter Houston Introduction Good morning. My name is Walter Houston. I’m a retired URC minister living in Macclesfield in Cheshire, with a view of the Peak District hills from our top window, and I’m a member of Macclesfield and Bollington URC. […]
URC Daily Devotion 2nd October 2021
When they heard these things, they became enraged and ground their teeth at Stephen. But filled with the Holy Spirit, he gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. ‘Look,’ he said, ‘I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the […]
URC Daily Devotion 1st October 2021
Acts 1:3-9 After his suffering he presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. While staying with them, he ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the promise of the Father. “This,” he said, “is what you […]