Saturday 6th June 2020 –Jacob’s Dream Genesis 28: 10 – 22 Jacob left Beer-sheba and went towards Haran. He came to a certain place and stayed there for the night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place. […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 5th June 2020
Genesis 27: 41 – 45 Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, ‘The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.’ But the words of her elder son Esau were told to Rebekah; so she […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 4th June 2020
When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite; and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah. When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called his elder son Esau and said to him, […]
Trinity Sunday
Trinity Sunday Dear Friends, Sunday’s service will reflect on the Trinity and is led by the Rev’d Neil Thorogood who is finishing his ministry at Westminster College and preparing to move to Gloucestershire. Our worship is aided by lovely music including part of St Patrick’s Breastplate, John Bell and Graham Maule’s Today I Awake, the […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 2nd June 2020
Tuesday 2nd June 2020 – Esau and Jacob 2 Genesis 25: 29-34 Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. Esau said to Jacob, ‘Let me eat some of that red stuff, for I am famished!’ (Therefore he was called Edom.) Jacob said, ‘First sell me your […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 1st June 2020
Monday 1st June – Esau and Jacob 1 Genesis 25: 19 – 28 These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean. Isaac prayed to the Lord for his […]
Sunday Worship for Pentecost
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 31st May Today’s service is led by the Rev’d Andy Braunston who works with Barrhead, Priesthill, Shawlands and Stewarton URCs in and around Glasgow in Scotland’s central belt. You may wish to light a candle during the Call to Worship You may wish to sing along […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 30th May
Saturday 30th May – Abraham and Issac Genesis 22: 1 – 19 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 29th May
Friday 29th May – Jealousy within the Family Genesis 21: 1 – 21 Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 28th May
Thursday 28th May – Lot and His Daughters Genesis 19: 30-38 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there […]