URC Daily Devotion 3rd July 2019

I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father. But now, dear lady, I ask you, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning, let us love one another. And this is […]

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URC Daily Devotion 2nd July 2019

Since I first came across the short – only thirteen verses long – and curious second letter of John, I have been intrigued about the identity of ‘the elect (or chosen) lady and her children’! While some commentators do think that this does refer to an individual family, more consider that this is a code […]

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URC Daily Devotion 1st July 2019

A difficult passage to conclude this letter. It is perhaps no wonder that one commentator suggests that it is unclear and that there is little agreement as to what it means, or even why the last sentence is there at all. Yet certainty is there in the three-fold statement of knowledge. We know that the […]

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URC Daily Devotion 30th June 2019

1 Praise God, my soul! With all my heartLet me exalt his holy name.2 Forget not all his benefits;His praise, my soul, in song proclaim.3 The LORD forgives you all your sins,And heals your sickness and distress;4 Your life he rescues from the grave,And crowns you in his tenderness. 5 He satisfies your deep desiresFrom […]

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URC Daily Devotion 28th June 2019

This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one that testifies, for the Spirit is the truth. There are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood, and these three agree. […]

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URC Daily Devotion 27th June 2019

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.  For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his […]

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URC Daily Devotion 26th June 2019

This is quite a reading. On first glance, the reader may well pass over it, thinking it to be ‘yet another mushy reading about love’. But read on, and we’ll find it packs more of a punch than first we realised. Having a younger brother, I know how hard it is to love our siblings […]

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URC Daily Devotion 24th June 2019

“You can have the sound of a thousand voices calling your name…” sang Shinedown; the song continued, “The one thing you leave behind is how did you love?”   Paul tells us “I could speak in the tongues of mortals or of angels, but if I have not love, I am just a noisy gong” […]

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