Wednesday 6th NovemberStanding up to Empire’s claim that humanity is the centre of the Universe verses from Job 39 ‘Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the deer? Can you number the months that they fulfil, and do you know the time when they give birth, when […]
URC Daily Devotion 5th November 2019
Matthew 28:1-15 After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And suddenly there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like […]
URC Daily Devotion 4th November 2019
Revelation 14: 6 – 8 Then I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation and tribe and language and people. He said in a loud voice, ‘Fear God and give him glory, for the hour of his judgement has come; and […]
URC Daily Devotion 3rd November 2019
Sunday 3rd November Psalm 121 1 I lift up my eyes to the hills—Where am I to look for my aid?2 My help comes to me from the LORDBy whom earth and heaven were made. 3 Your foot he will not leave to slide—His watch over you he will keep.4 The LORD over Isr’el keeps […]
URC Daily Devotion 2nd November 2019
inspiration in your inbox Saturday 2nd NovemberThe State We’re in…Despise not the Small Zechariah 4:6-10 He said to me, ‘This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts. What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a […]
URC Daily Devotion 1st November 2019
Friday 1st NovemberThe State We’re In….The End of Empire 1 Kings 12: 1 – 15 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard of it (for he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt. […]
URC Daily Devotion 31st October 2019
inspiration in your inbox Thursday 31st OctoberThe State We’re In….Fake News Genesis 9: 20 – 29 Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard. He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he lay uncovered in his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of […]
URC Daily Devotion 30th October 2019
Wednesday 30th October The State We’re In…A Blessed Empire? 2 Samuel 7: 1-2, 18-28 Now when the king was settled in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies around him, the king said to the prophet Nathan, ‘See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark […]
URC Daily Devotion 29th October 2019
inspiration in your inbox Tuesday 29th OctoberThe State We’re In…A Global Britain? Jonah 3: 1-10, 4: 1-5 The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying, ‘Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.’ So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according […]
URC Daily Devotion 28th October 2019
Monday 28th OctoberThe State We’re In…Imperial Nostalgia Deuteronomy 7: 1-5 When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and occupy, and he clears away many nations before you—the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations mightier and more numerous […]