Wednesday 13th NovemberA Higher Law than Empire’s Genesis 1:1 – 2:2: In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; […]
URC Daily Devotion 12th November 2019
Tuesday 12th NovemberWomen Undermining Empire Numbers 27: 1 – 11 Then the daughters of Zelophehad came forward. Zelophehad was son of Hepher son of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh son of Joseph, a member of the Manassite clans. The names of his daughters were: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. They stood before […]
URC Daily Devotion 11th November 2019
Monday 11th November Reminding Empire of Suffering Psalm 146 Praise the Lord!Praise the Lord, O my soul!I will praise the Lord as long as I live;I will sing praises to my God all my life long.Do not put your trust in princes,in mortals, in whom there is no help.When their breath departs, they return to […]
URC Daily Devotion 10th November 2019
Sunday 10th November Psalm 122 1 “To the LORD’s house!” they were calling, and with joy I went with them.2 Now at last our feet are standingin your gates, Jerusalem. 3 See, Jerus’lem, like a citybuilt compactly, close and strong.4 That is where the tribes assemble,tribes which to the LORD belong. To the LORD’s name […]
URC Daily Devotion 9th November 2019
Saturday 9th NovemberStanding up to Empire’s claims to say what love looks like 1 Sam 18: 1 – 5, 20: 30 – 42, 2 Sam 1: 23 – 27 When David had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was bound to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. […]
URC Daily Devotion 8th November 2019
Ruth said, ‘Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you!Where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge;your people shall be my people, and your God my God.Where you die, I will die — there will I be buried.May the Lord do thus and so to […]
URC Daily Devotion 7th November 2019
Thursday 7th November Subverting Empire’s claims to say wealth should be rewarded St Matthew 25: 14 – 30 ‘For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his […]
URC Daily Devotion 6th November 2019
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 […]