A Prayer for Ascension The Lord goes up with shouts of joy (Psalm 47:5) Dear Friends, Sarah Hall wrote this prayer for Sunday’s digital service which focuses on the Ascension which falls today. We hope you find it useful God, greater than all our ideas of you, we praise you.We know of kings and presidents, […]
URC Daily Devotion for Wednesday, 13 May 2026 Scripture and Faith 3
Reflection We are in the Book of Judges, chapter 12. “The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, ‘Let me cross over,’ the men of Gilead asked him, ‘Are you an Ephraimite?’ If he replied, ‘No,’ they said, ‘All right, say “Shibboleth”. If he said, […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday, 12 May 2026 Scripture and Faith 2
Reflection 2015 was the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta (the ‘Great Charter’), King John’s response to rebellion. It recognised that neither monarch nor government were above the law and introduced concepts around individual freedoms that have remained central in the laws of many nations. It is a text that has shaped history. The British Library, […]
URC Daily Devotion for Monday, 11 May 2026 Art, Scripture and Faith 1
Monday, 11 May 2026 Art, Scripture and Faith 1 Brick House by Simone Leigh (2019) Reflection Standing 16 feet tall, Leigh’s bronze bust of a black woman was the first sculpture for the High Line Plinth in New York, a public park created from a redundant elevated railway. The city had very few monuments […]
Scripture, Art, and Faith
Scripture, Faith, and Art Dear Friends, I hope you found our journey through the book of Judges with Janet Tollington interesting. Janet’s love of the Old Testament is something she willingly shares with us and we’re grateful for the time and effort she put into producing that series. For the next week we are going […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 9th May 2026
Judges 21:2-7, 8b, 10-14, 17-25 And the people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly. They said, ‘O Lord, the God of Israel, why has it come to pass that today there should be one tribe lacking in Israel?’ On the next day, […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 8th May 2026
Judges 20:1, 3b-13, 18-21, 26-27a, 28b, 35-36a, 47-48 Then all the Israelites came out, from Dan to Beer-sheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled in one body before the Lord at Mizpah…(Now the Benjaminites heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the Israelites said, ‘Tell us, how […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 7th May 2026
Selected verses from Judges 19:1-4, 9-12, 15-30 In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite, residing in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. But his concubine became angry with him, and she went away from him to her […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 6th May 2026
Judges 18:1-11, 13b – 20, 27-30a In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking for itself a territory to live in; for until then no territory among the tribes of Israel had been allotted to them. So the Danites sent five valiant men […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 5th May 2026
Judges 17: 1-13 There was a man in the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah. He said to his mother, ‘The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and even spoke it in my hearing—that silver is in my possession; I took it; but […]