inspiration in your inbox Saturday 2nd NovemberThe State We’re in…Despise not the Small Zechariah 4:6-10 He said to me, ‘This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts. What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a […]
URC Daily Devotion 1st November 2019
Friday 1st NovemberThe State We’re In….The End of Empire 1 Kings 12: 1 – 15 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard of it (for he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt. […]
URC Daily Devotion 31st October 2019
inspiration in your inbox Thursday 31st OctoberThe State We’re In….Fake News Genesis 9: 20 – 29 Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard. He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he lay uncovered in his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of […]
URC Daily Devotion 30th October 2019
Wednesday 30th October The State We’re In…A Blessed Empire? 2 Samuel 7: 1-2, 18-28 Now when the king was settled in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies around him, the king said to the prophet Nathan, ‘See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark […]
URC Daily Devotion 29th October 2019
inspiration in your inbox Tuesday 29th OctoberThe State We’re In…A Global Britain? Jonah 3: 1-10, 4: 1-5 The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying, ‘Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.’ So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according […]
URC Daily Devotion 28th October 2019
Monday 28th OctoberThe State We’re In…Imperial Nostalgia Deuteronomy 7: 1-5 When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and occupy, and he clears away many nations before you—the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations mightier and more numerous […]
URC Daily Devotion 27th October 2019
Sunday 27th October Psalm 120 1 I call upon the LORD in my distress;He listens to my prayer and answers me.2 Deliver me, O LORD, from lying lipsAnd from all tongues that speak deceitfully. 3 What will he do to you, deceitful tongue?What more besides will be your fitting doom?4 With warriors’ arrows he will […]
The State We’re In
Dear <<First Name>> The State We’re In We hope you enjoyed our journey through the Letter to the Philippians and found it useful in both increasing your understanding of this letter and in inspiring you in your daily discipleship. Our next series, which started this morning, is from Scotland and is a little different but we […]
URC Daily Devotion 25th October 2019
Friday 25th October Philippians 4: 14 – 23 You Philippians indeed know that in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you alone. For even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent me help for my needs more than […]
URC Daily Devotion 24th October 2019
Thursday 24th October Philippians 4: 10 – 13 I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at last you have revived your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned for me, but had no opportunity to show it. Not that I am referring to being in need; for I have learned to be content with […]