James 4: 13 – 17 Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.’ Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a […]
URC Daily Devotion 26th November 2021
Friday 26th November 2021 James 4: 11 – 12Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another, speaks evil against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is one lawgiver […]
URC Daily Devotion 25th November 2021
James 4: 7 – 9 ‘God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.’ Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep. Let […]
URC Daily Devotion 24th November 2021
Wednesday 24th November 2021 James 4: 1 – 6Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you? You want something and do not have it; so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it; so you engage in […]
URC Daily Devotion 23rd November 2021
Tuesday 23rd November 2021 James 3: 13 – 18Who is wise and understanding among you? Show by your good life that your works are done with gentleness born of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be boastful and false to the truth. Such wisdom does not […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday November 22, 2021
James 3: 6 – 12 How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. For […]
URC Daily Devotions Sunday Service for 21st November 2021 – The Revd. Dr Matthew Prevett
Daily Devotions from the United Reformed ChurchService for Sunday 21st November 2021Christ the KingPhoto Credit: Daniel Gutko, UnsplashThe Rev’d Dr Matthew Prevett IntroductionHello – I am Matthew Prevett, and I am based in Northern Synod. I welcome you to this worship to celebrate Christ the King, as we reflect on the coming of God’s Kingdom. […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday November 20, 2021
Saturday November 20, 2021 James 3: 1 – 5 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to keep the whole body […]
URC Daily Devotion November 19, 2021
James 2: 14 – 26 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday November 18, 2021
James 2: 1- 13 My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favouritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ? For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in, and if you take notice of […]