Leviticus 23:3 For six days shall work be done; but the seventh day is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work: it is a sabbath to the Lord throughout your settlements. Reflection One of the difficulties in ministry is that we work on a Sunday. If the Sabbath (Sundays […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday, 26 June 2023
Genesis 1.1 – 2:4 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. And God saw […]
A Week on Rest
A Week on Rest Dear Friends, I hope you found the last two weeks’ looking at difficult Biblical passages interesting and useful in your own thinking about what we might mean when we say the Bible contains the Word of God. Thank you to everyone who has emailed me with their thoughts; it’s lovely to […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday, 24 June 2023
St John 1:1 – 4, 14 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, […]
URC Daily Devotion 23rd June 2023
1 Corinthians 14: 26 – 40 What should be done then, my friends? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up. If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and […]
URC Daily Devotion 22nd June 2023
inspiration in your inbox 22nd June 2023 The Christian Household? Ephesians 5: 21 – 6: Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, […]
Newstand – July 2023
PDF version to view online or download: Newstand 2023-07 July NOTE: Newstand is formatted onto A5 pages. This should only be an issue if you print the PDF, where you should specify to print as a booklet on A4 paper, double-sided, flipping on short edge. Flipbook version to view online. Click the broken square at […]
URC Daily Devotion 21st June 2023
I Kings 18: When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, ‘Is it you, you troubler of Israel?’ He answered, ‘I have not troubled Israel; but you have, and your father’s house, because you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals. Now therefore have all Israel assemble for me at Mount […]
Worship Notes and Intercessions for 25th June
Resources for Worship Dear Friends, Worship is at the heart of our life as God’s people. Whatever else we do, worship is at the core as it is through meeting God – in the hymns and the music, the movement and the silence, the Word and the words, in friend and stranger as well as […]
URC Daily Devotion 19 June 2023
Judges 11: 30 – 40And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, and said, ‘If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, then whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious from the Ammonites, shall be the Lord’s, to be offered up by me as a […]