1 On Jerus’lem’s holy mountainhe has founded his abode.2 More than all of Jacob’s dwellingsZion’s gates are dear to God. 3 Glorious things of you are spoken,Zion, city of the LORD:4 “Many drawn from all the nationsas your people I record. “I will name as those who know meEgypt, Tyre and Babylon;Philistine along with CushiteI […]
URC Daily Devotion 23rd February 2019
We have already heard about the mission of the Twelve (Luke 9:1-6), now we have the mission of the Seventy (or is it 72?). In all the Gospels it is an account that is only given by Luke although the charge referring to ‘the harvest being plenty and the labourers being few’ has its parallels […]
URC Daily Devotion 22nd February 2019
I’m sure that many of you, like me, sometimes have trouble sleeping. Perhaps, like me, you’ve read up on ‘sleep hygiene’ and try to follow a set routine to help you sleep well, but still occasionally find yourself awake at 4am pondering the meaning of the Universe. Drawing on this passage, a question you could […]
URC Daily Devotion 21st February 2019
I wonder how the conversation went between the disciples and the people in the Samaritan village? The Messiah is coming you say? Whose Messiah? Is he staying long? Oh – Jerusalem you say? – well he can’t be our Messiah, he’s going the wrong way. For Samaritans, Jerusalem was not their sacred city – they […]
URC Daily Devotion 20th February 2019
Jesus’ friends have come across someone “casting out demons in your name”. It sounds as if they tried to stop him because they thought he was jumping on the bandwagon, or maybe giving himself a status that in their eyes he hasn’t earned? They had, after all, just had the conversation with Jesus about who […]
URC Daily Devotion 19th February 2019
We can be very sentimental about children, especially in churches that do not have any. We think we should treat them as if they are adults and tie ourselves up in knots about how much they understand about Communion. There is no evidence Jesus was at all sentimental about children. He had younger brothers and […]
URC Daily Devotion 18th February 2019
While everyone was amazed at all that he was doing, he said to his disciples, ‘Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into human hands.’ But they did not understand this saying; its meaning was concealed from them, so that they could not perceive it. And […]
URC Daily Devotion 17th February 2019
1 Hear, O LORD, and answer me;I am poor, and needy too.2 Guard my life; save me, my God,For your servant trusts in you. 3 Lord, be merciful to me;All day long to you I call.4 Give your servant joy, O Lord,For to you I lift my soul. 5 You, O Lord, alone are good;You […]
URC Daily Devotion 16th February 2019
Information Janani Luwum was born in 1922 at Acholi in Uganda. His childhood and youth were spent as a goatherd but he quickly showed an ability to learn and absorb knowledge when given the opportunity. Soon after he became a teacher, he was converted to Christianity and was eventually ordained in 1956, becoming Bishop of […]
URC Daily Devotion 15th February 2019
On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met him. Just then a man from the crowd shouted, ‘Teacher, I beg you to look at my son; he is my only child. Suddenly a spirit seizes him, and all at once he shrieks. It throws him into convulsions […]