1 Timothy Dear <<First Name>> I do hope you found the last two weeks’ worth of material musing on some insights from small islands interesting and helpful as we muse the positive aspects of small churches and ideas from the edge. It’s been lovely to receive comments as we’ve gone along; it’s always daunting to write […]
URC Daily Devotion for 13 September 2025
Saturday, 13 September 2025 Notes from Small Islands 12: Weaving Threads Proverbs 31: 10 – 22 She is far more precious than jewels.The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands.She is […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday, 12 September 2025
Notes from Small Islands 11: Renewables and Justice Psalm 107: 1-3, 23-38 O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever.Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, those he redeemed from troubleand gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday, 11 September 2025
Notes from Small Islands 10: The Highway of the Sea Psalm 77 17 – 21 The waters saw you, O God,the waters saw you and trembled; the depths were moved with terror.The clouds poured down rain,the skies sent forth their voice;your arrows flashed to and fro. Your thunder rolled round the sky,your flashes lighted up […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday, 10 September 2025
Notes from Small Islands 9: Island Saints Hebrews 12: 1 – 3 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Notes from Small Islands 8: The Climate Isaiah 24: 1 – 12 Now the Lord is about to lay waste the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants. And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 8th September 2025
Notes from Small Islands 7: Identity Galatians 3: 27 – 29 As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. […]
Sunday Worship 7 September 2025
Today’s service is led by the Revd Andy Braunston Introduction We hear today of Jeremiah’s insight that God moulds us like a potter moulds and works clay on a wheel. Spinning and forming us into something wonderful. The Psalmist reminds us that we are fully known and loved; even if we don’t fully know ourselves […]
Daily Devotion for Saturday 6th September 2025
Acts 2: 1 – 7 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue […]
Daily Devotion for Friday 5th September 2025
1 Thessalonians 4: 10b – 12 But we urge you, beloved, to do so more and more, to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we directed you, so that you may behave properly towards outsiders and be dependent on no one. Reflection Paul’s admonition to […]