Notes from Small Islands 9: Island Saints Hebrews 12: 1 – 3 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Notes from Small Islands 8: The Climate Isaiah 24: 1 – 12 Now the Lord is about to lay waste the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants. And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 8th September 2025
Notes from Small Islands 7: Identity Galatians 3: 27 – 29 As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. […]
Sunday Worship 7 September 2025
Today’s service is led by the Revd Andy Braunston Introduction We hear today of Jeremiah’s insight that God moulds us like a potter moulds and works clay on a wheel. Spinning and forming us into something wonderful. The Psalmist reminds us that we are fully known and loved; even if we don’t fully know ourselves […]
Daily Devotion for Saturday 6th September 2025
Acts 2: 1 – 7 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue […]
Daily Devotion for Friday 5th September 2025
1 Thessalonians 4: 10b – 12 But we urge you, beloved, to do so more and more, to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we directed you, so that you may behave properly towards outsiders and be dependent on no one. Reflection Paul’s admonition to […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 4 September 2025
Thursday 4 September 2025 Notes from Small Islands 4: Paradiplomacy Proverbs 16: 20-24 Those who are attentive to a matter will prosper, and happy are those who trust in the Lord.The wise of heart is called perceptive, and pleasant speech increases persuasiveness.Wisdom is a fountain of life to one who has it, but folly is the punishment of […]
URC Daily Devotion for 3 9 2025
Notes from Small Islands 3: Selling Cold Islands Psalm 139: 7 – 10 O where can I go from your spirit,or where can I flee from your face?If I climb the heavens, you are there.If I lie in the grave, you are there. If I take the wings of the dawnand dwell at the sea’s […]
URC Daily Devotion for 2 9 2025
Notes from Small Islands 2: Integration, Autonomy, Sovereignty? Lamentations 1: 1 – 3 How lonely sits the city that once was full of people!How like a widow she has become, she that was great among the nations!She that was a princess among the provinces has become a vassal. She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks;among […]
URC Daily Devotion for 1 9 2025
Notes from Small Islands 1: Rejoicing in the small St Matthew 13: 31 – 32 Jesus put before them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest […]