It can be a little unnerving to hear Paul talking in terms of not being able to do the good that he wants to do. It’s usually others that he is taking to task for getting things wrong – whether it’s the ‘foolish Galatians’ or the Corinthians that he ‘does not commend’. Not only that, […]
URC Daily Devotion 4th September 2019
What then should we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, ‘You shall not covet.’ But sin, seizing an opportunity in the […]
URC Daily Devotion 3rd September 2019
Paul reflects on the way life changes as circumstances change. He is writing to knowledgeable people who understand the Law. They had been bound by the Law and he wants them to understand how their lives had changed. The biggest change in our relationship with God was the life on earth of His son Jesus. […]
URC Daily Devotion 2nd September 2019
Come with me to the land of my nightmares. Marmite is discovered to be a wonder-food. (If you like Marmite, pretend with me that you don’t.) More than just packed with B-vitamins, Marmite heals all ills, ends war, solves global warming and even cures the common cold! Eat Marmite and I’ll never die! Amazing – […]
URC Daily Devotion 1st September 2019
1 Praise God! Blessed is the man who fears the LORDAnd finds delight in following his word.2 His children will be mighty in the land;His line will know the blessing of God’s hand. 3 Riches and wealth within his house are found;His righteousness for ever will abound.4 The man who stands for mercy, truth and […]
URC Daily Devotion 31st August 2019
What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have […]
URC Daily Devotion 30th August 2019
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned— sin was indeed in the world before the law, but sin is not reckoned when there is no law. Yet death exercised dominion from Adam to Moses, even over […]
URC Daily Devotion 29th August 2019
Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we[c] boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that […]
URC Daily Devotion 28th August 2019
For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith. If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath; but […]
URC Daily Devotion 27th August 2019
Even the most tangled knot can be untangled with skill and patience. The Letter to the Romans can be a challenging read: Paul sought to expound the new faith to a mainly Jewish audience with centuries of tradition. When Alexander the Great encountered the Gordian Knot – a legendary knot of extreme complexity – his […]