Judges 20:1, 3b-13, 18-21, 26-27a, 28b, 35-36a, 47-48 Then all the Israelites came out, from Dan to Beer-sheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled in one body before the Lord at Mizpah…(Now the Benjaminites heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the Israelites said, ‘Tell us, how […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 7th May 2026
Selected verses from Judges 19:1-4, 9-12, 15-30 In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite, residing in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. But his concubine became angry with him, and she went away from him to her […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 6th May 2026
Judges 18:1-11, 13b – 20, 27-30a In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking for itself a territory to live in; for until then no territory among the tribes of Israel had been allotted to them. So the Danites sent five valiant men […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 5th May 2026
Judges 17: 1-13 There was a man in the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah. He said to his mother, ‘The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and even spoke it in my hearing—that silver is in my possession; I took it; but […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 4th May 2026
After this he fell in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. The lords of the Philistines came to her and said to her, ‘Coax him, and find out what makes his strength so great, and how we may overpower him, so that we may bind him in order […]
Sunday Service 3 May 2026
Welcome and Introduction Hello and welcome to worship. My name is Andy Braunston and I am the United Reformed Church’s Minister for Digital Worship; I live up in Orkney but, when this service is used, I will be on sabbatical and travelling back from France and Italy where I’ll be looking at how faithful disciples have responded […]
URC Daily Devotion 2 May 2026
Selected verses from Judges 15:1 – 8, 18-20; 16: 1-3 After a while, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife, bringing along a kid. He said, ‘I want to go into my wife’s room.’ But her father would not allow him to go in. Her father said, ‘I was sure […]
URC Daily Devotion 1 May 2026
Judges 14 Once Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw a Philistine woman. Then he came up, and told his father and mother, ‘I saw a Philistine woman at Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.’ But his father and mother said to him, ‘Is there not a woman among your […]
URC Daily Devotion 30 April 2026
Judges 13:2 – 25 The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years. There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. His wife was barren, having borne no children. And […]
URC Daily Devotion 29 April 2026
Judges 10:1-5 and 12:7-15 After Abimelech, Tola son of Puah son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, who lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim, rose to deliver Israel. He judged Israel for twenty-three years. Then he died, and was buried at Shamir. After him came Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel for twenty-two […]