St John 1: 19 – 34 This is the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed and did not deny it, but confessed, “I am not the Messiah.” And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am […]
URC Daily Devotion 6th May 2022
St John 1: 6 – 18 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was […]
URC Daily Devotion 5th May 2022
St John 1: 1 – 4 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 into being in him was life, […]
URC Daily Devotion 4th May 2022
Song of Songs 8.8-14 We have a little sister, and she has no breasts.What shall we do for our sister, on the day when she is spoken for?If she is a wall, we will build upon her a battlement of silver;but if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.I was a wall, and my breasts […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 3rd May 2022
Song of Songs 8.6-7 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm;for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave.Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame.Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.If one offered for love all the wealth of one’s house, it would be utterly scorned. Reflection […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 2nd May 2022
Song of Songs 8.1-5 O that you were like a brother to me, who nursed at my mother’s breast!If I met you outside, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother, and into the chamber of the one who bore me.I would give you spiced […]
URC Daily Devotion Sunday 1st May
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 […]