Psalm 146 Praise the Lord!Praise the Lord, O my soul!I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God all my life long. Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help.When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their […]
Daily Devotion for Friday 18th October 2024
Philippians 3:17 – 21 Brothers and sisters, join in imitating me, and observe those who live according to the example you have in us. For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears. Their end is destruction; their god […]
Daily Devotion for Thursday 17th October 2024
Thursday 17 October 2024Reflections on Difficult Times 10 – My Kingdom is Not of This World St John 18: 28-37 Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate’s headquarters. It was early in the morning. They themselves did not enter the headquarters, so as to avoid ritual defilement and to be able to eat the […]
Daily Devotion for Wednesday 16th October 2024
St Luke 4: 1 – 13 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. The devil said to […]
Daily Devotion for Tuesday 15th October 2024
St John 18: 38 Pilate asked Jesus, ‘What is truth?’ Reflection When I was a child there were fewer sources of news. Just three TV channels – and I’m pretty sure BBC2 didn’t have an early evening news programme. More people read newspapers whose ideologies were memorably satirised by the TV comedy Yes Minister. Fewer […]
Daily Devotion for Monday 14th October 2024
Monday 14 October 2024Reflections on Difficult Times 7 – Neither Jew nor Gentile Galatians 3: 27 – 28 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 […]
Sunday Worship 13 October 2024
For each of these days we bring our thanks, knowing and trusting that God has been with us. As we worship we celebrate that God is with us each and every day. God is with us now. Hymn New Every Morning is the LoveJohn Keeble 1822 Public Domain sung by the choir of […]
Daily Devotion for Saturday 12th October 2024
Saturday 12 October 2024Reflections on Difficult Times 6 – The aliens in the Land Genesis 15:13 Then the Lord said to Abram, ‘Know this for certain, that your offspring shall be aliens in a land that is not theirs, and shall be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years; Leviticus 19:34 […]
Daily Devotion for Friday 11th October 2024
St Luke 10: 15 – 37 Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. ‘Teacher,’ he said, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ He said to him, ‘What is written in the law? What do you read there?’ He answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and […]
Daily Devotion for Thursday 10th October 2024
Acts 2: 1 – 13 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 […]