Friday 18th September 2020 Creation 5 Isaiah 24: 4-6 The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers; the heavens languish together with the earth.The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants;for they have transgressed laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt;therefore the inhabitants of the earth […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 17th September 2020 Creation 4
Thursday 17th September 2020 Creation 4 Job 12: 7 – 10 ‘But ask the animals, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you;ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.Who among all these does not know that the […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 16th September 2020 Creation 3
Wednesday 16th September 2020 Creation 3 Psalm 96: 10 – 13 Say among the nations, ‘The Lord is king! The world is firmly established; it shall never be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.’Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it; let the field exult, and […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 15th September 2020 Creation 2
Tuesday 15th September 2020 Creation 2 Isaiah 42: 1 – 7 Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it,who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it:I am the Lord, I have called you in righteousness, I […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 14th September 2020 Creation 1
Monday 14th September 2020 Creation 1 St John 1: 1 – 5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come […]
A Week on Creation
A Week of Creation Dear <<First Name>> I hope you’ve found our, long, journey through Exodus has been fruitful. Like Genesis, it is a book we think we know but are always surprised by. We leave that book now and spend a week thinking about Creation. In response to a call from the Ecumenical Patriarch many […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 12th September 2020 Moses’ Death
Saturday 12th September 2020 Moses’ Death Deuteronomy 34: 1 – 12 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho, and the Lord showed him the whole land: Gilead as far as Dan, all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 11th September 2020 Joshua Commissioned
Friday 11th September 2020 Joshua Commissioned Deuteronomy 31: 1 – 8 When Moses had finished speaking all[a] these words to all Israel, he said to them: ‘I am now a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about, and the Lord has told me, “You shall not cross over this […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 10th September 2020 Choose Life
Thursday 10th September 2020 Choose Life Deuteronomy 30: 11 – 20 Surely, this commandment that I am commanding you today is not too hard for you, nor is it too far away. It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will go up to heaven for us, and get it for us so […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 9th September Shine Moses Shine
Wednesday 9th September Shine Moses Shine Exodus 34: 29 – 35 Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. When Aaron and […]