My song forever shall recordthe tender mercies of the Lord;your faithfulness will I proclaim,and ev’ry age shall know your name. 2 I sing of mercies that endure,forever builded firm and sure,of faithfulness that never dies,established changeless in the skies. 3 Behold God’s truth and grace displayed,for he has faithful cov’nant made,and he has sworn that […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 30 April 2022
Song of Songs 6.13 and 7.1-13 Return, return, O Shulammite! Return, return, that we may look upon you.Why should you look upon the Shulammite, as upon a dance before two armies? How graceful are your feet in sandals, O queenly maiden!Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand. Your navel is a rounded bowl that never […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 29 April 2022
Song of Songs 5.8-16 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved,tell him this: I am faint with love. What is your beloved more than another beloved, O fairest among women?What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us? My beloved is all radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand. His head […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 28 April 2022
Content warning: this reading and the reflection upon it feature violence against women Song of Songs 5.2-7 I slept, but my heart was awake.Listen! my beloved is knocking.‘Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one;for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.’ I had put off […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 27 April 2022
Song of Songs 4.1-16 How beautiful you are, my love, how very beautiful!Your eyes are doves behind your veil.Your hair is like a flock of goats, moving down the slopes of Gilead. Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing,all of which bear twins, and not one among them is bereaved. Your […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 26 April 2022
Song of Songs 3.6-11 What is that coming up from the wilderness, like a column of smoke,perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of the merchant? Look, it is the litter of Solomon!Around it are sixty mighty men of the mighty men of Israel,all equipped with swords and expert in war,each with his sword at his thigh because […]
URC Daily Devotions Sunday Service for 24th April 2022 – The Revd. David Coleman
Daily Devotions from the United Reformed ChurchWorship for Sunday 24th April 2022The Second Sunday of EasterBy Caravaggio – http://www.christusrex.org/www2/art/images/carav10.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6804893 The Rev’d David Coleman Introduction Hello, my name is David Coleman. Welcome, friends, from Edinburgh, where I’m based as Environmental Chaplain with EcoCongregation Scotland, a special category ministry of the United Reformed Church, working […]
URC Daily Devotion 22nd April 2022
Content warning: This reflection will draw connections to racism, colourism and slavery Song of Songs 1.5-8 I am black and beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem,like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has gazed on me.My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me […]
URC Daily Devotion 21st April 2022
Song of Songs 1.1-4 The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!For your love is better than wine, your anointing oils are fragrant,your name is perfume poured out; therefore the maidens love you.Draw me after you, let us make haste. The king has brought me into his chambers.We will […]
The Song of Songs
The Song of Songs Dear <<First Name>> For the next two weeks the Daily Devotions will explore the Song of Songs with reflection and prayers by the Rev’d Dr ‘frin Lewis-Smith who works as a Healthcare Chaplain and is a member of The Church at the Centre in Bolton. This is a book of the Old […]