Thursday 21st November 1 Kings 18:1-19 After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year of the drought, saying, ‘Go, present yourself to Ahab; I will send rain on the earth.’ So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria. Ahab summoned Obadiah, who was […]
URC Daily Devotion 20th November 2019
Wednesday 20th November 1 Kings 17:17-24 After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill; his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. She then said to Elijah, ‘What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my […]
URC Daily Devotion 19th November 2019
Thursday 14th November 1 Kings 17:8-16 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ‘Go now to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and live there; for I have commanded a widow there to feed you.’ So he set out and went to Zarephath. When he came to the gate of the town, a […]
URC Daily Devotion 18th November 2019
Monday 18th November 1 Kings 17:1-7 Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, ‘As the Lord the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.’ The word of the Lord came to him, saying, ‘Go from here and […]
Next Devotion Series – Elijah and Elisha
Elijah and Elisha Dear Friends, I hope you have found the devotions over the last two weeks looking at themes arising from Empire useful and stimulating. We now move on to four weeks’ worth of Devotions from the Rev’d Dr Janet Tollington. Janet is now a retired minister worshipping in Downing Place URC in Cambridge […]
URC Daily Devotion 17th November 2019
Sunday 17th November Psalm 123 1 To you, O LORD, I lift my eyes,The God enthroned above the skies.2 As servants watch their master’s handOr maids before their mistress stand,So to the LORD our eyes we raiseUntil his mercy he displays. 3 O LORD our God, your mercy show;Take pity, LORD, on us below.For scorn […]
URC Daily Devotion 16th November 2019
Saturday 16th November Babylon Has Fallen! Revelation 14: 6 – 8a Then I saw another angel flying high in the air, with an eternal message of Good News to announce to the peoples of the earth, to every race, tribe, language, and nation. He said in a loud voice, “Honour God and praise his greatness! […]
URC Daily Devotion 15th November 2019
Friday 15th November Empire is Violent Deuteronomy 20:16-18 “But when you capture cities in the land that the Lord your God is giving you, kill everyone. Completely destroy all the people: the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the Lord ordered you to do. Kill them, so that […]
URC Daily Devotion 14th November 2019
Thursday 14th November The Magnificat Undermines Empire St Luke 1: 26 – 33, 47 – 55 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. […]
URC Daily Devotion 13th November 2019
Wednesday 13th NovemberA Higher Law than Empire’s Genesis 1:1 – 2:2: 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’; […]