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 […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 8th September 2020 Covenant Renewed
Tuesday 8th September 2020 Covenant Renewed Exodus 34: 10 – 28 He said: I hereby make a covenant. Before all your people I will perform marvels, such as have not been performed in all the earth or in any nation; and all the people among whom you live shall see the work of the Lord; […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 7th September 2020 New Tablets
Monday 7th September 2020 New Tablets Exodus 34: 1-9 The Lord said to Moses, ‘Cut two tablets of stone like the former ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets, which you broke. Be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai […]
URC Daily Devotion Sunday Service 6th September 2020
URC Daily Devotion ServiceforSunday 6th September 2020 The Rev’d Mike Shrubsole and the Rev’d David Coleman Introduction Good morning, I’m Mike Shrubsole, minister of four churches in the Ringwood area, and also one of the Green Apostles working across the thirteen Synods of the United Reformed Church. Today is Climate Sunday and this Sunday Worship has […]