Friday 26th June 2020 – Bricks without Straw Exodus 5 Afterwards Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, “Let my people go, so that they may celebrate a festival to me in the wilderness.”’ But Pharaoh said, ‘Who is the Lord, that I should heed him and […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 25th June 2020
Thursday 25th June 2020 – Moses returns to Egypt Exodus 4: 18 – 31 Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, ‘Please let me go back to my kindred in Egypt and see whether they are still living.’ And Jethro said to Moses, ‘Go in peace.’ The Lord said to Moses in […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 24th June 2020
Wednesday 24th June 2020 – Moses Commissioned Exodus 4:1 – 17 Then Moses answered, ‘But suppose they do not believe me or listen to me, but say, “The Lord did not appear to you.”’ The Lord said to him, ‘What is that in your hand?’ He said, ‘A staff.’ And he said, ‘Throw it on the […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 23rd June 2020
Tuesday 23rd June 2020 – The Divine Name Exodus 3: 13 – 22 But Moses said to God, ‘If I come to the Israelites and say to them, “The God of your ancestors has sent me to you”, and they ask me, “What is his name?” what shall I say to them?’ God said to Moses, […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 22nd June 2020
Monday 22nd June 2020 – The Burning Bush Exodus 3: 1 – 12 Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out […]
Worship for Sunday 21st June The Rev’d Richard Church
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 21st June The Rev’d Richard Chuch Good Morning! My name is Richard Church. My role, for a few more weeks, is as Deputy General Secretary (Discipleship) and I live in Streatham, South West London and I am speaking to you from my home. Call to Worship We meet in […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 20th June 2020
Saturday 20th June 2020 Moses Flees to Midian Exodus 2:11-25 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and saw their forced labour. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his kinsfolk. He looked this way and that, and seeing no one he killed the Egyptian and hid him […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 19th June 2020
Friday 19th June 2020 – The Birth of Moses Exodus 2: 1 – 10 Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him for three months. When she could hide him […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 18th June 2020
Thursday 18th June 2020 – Shiprah and Puah Exodus 1: 15 – 21 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, ‘When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 17th June 2020
Wednesday 17th June 2020 – An Oppressed People Exodus 1: 8 – 14 Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. He said to his people, ‘Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the […]