Daily Devotions from the United Reformed ChurchWorship for Sunday 27th March 2022 The Fourth Sunday of LentPhoto credit Any Lane / pexel.com The Rev’d Jenny Mills Introduction Hello, I am Jenny Mills and am currently serving the United Reformed Church as Secretary for Education and Learning and I am based at Church House. However, I travel […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 26 March 2022
St Luke 18: 35 – 43 As he approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. When he heard a crowd going by, he asked what was happening. They told him, ‘Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.’ Then he shouted, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!’ Those who were in […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 25 March 2022
St Luke 18: 31 – 34 Then he took the twelve aside and said to them, ‘See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished. For he will be handed over to the Gentiles; and he will be mocked and insulted […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 24 March 2022
Thursday 24 March 2022 St Luke 18: 18 – 30 A certain ruler asked him, ‘Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: “You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 23 March 2022
Wednesday 23 March 2022 St Luke 18: 15 – 17 People were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them; and when the disciples saw it, they sternly ordered them not to do it. But Jesus called for them and said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 22nd March 2022
St Luke 18: 9 – 14 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt: ‘Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax-collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, “God, I thank you […]
URC Daily Devotion for Monday 21st March 2022
Monday 21 March 2022 St Luke 18: 1-8 Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, ‘In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to […]
Ukraine through the eyes of Psalm 94
Ukraine through the eyes of Psalm 94 Dear Friends, Whilst preparing a reflection on Psalm 94 I was struck by how John Bell’s version is hauntingly evocative of the situation of Ukraine.You can hear it here. The opening stanza evokes images of women and children being bombed in Ukraine, babies and elderly killed, and the […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 19 March 2022
St Luke 17: 20 – 37Once Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, and he answered, ‘The kingdom of God is not coming with things that can be observed; nor will they say, “Look, here it is!” or “There it is!” For, in fact, the kingdom of God is […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 18 March 2022
St Luke 17: 11 – 19On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered a village, ten lepers approached him. Keeping their distance, they called out, saying, ‘Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!’ When he saw them, he said to them, ‘Go and show yourselves to […]