1 How delightful are your dwellings,O Almighty LORD, to me!2 For your courts my soul is yearning;in your house I long to be.Heart and flesh cry out aloudfor the true and living God. 3 Even sparrows find their dwelling,and the swallow builds a nestNear your altar, LORD Almighty,where her offspring may have rest.4 Blessed whose […]
URC Daily Devotion 2nd February 2019
The first part of this passage seems straightforward with its strong message about mission: once you’ve discovered the love of Jesus, you cannot hide it – love will shine from you. In fact, love will shine so brightly that there will be no secrets, no dark corners…therefore, other people will understand. In other words, we […]
URC Daily Devotion 1st February 2019
When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: ‘A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell on the path and was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. Some fell on the rock; and […]
URC Daily Devotion 31st January 2019
Soon afterwards he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him, as well as some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Herod’s […]
URC Daily Devotion 29th January 2019
The disciples of John reported all these things to him. So John summoned two of his disciples and sent them to the Lord to ask, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?’ When the men had come to him, they said, ‘John the Baptist has sent us […]
URC Daily Devotion 28th January 2019
Soon afterwards he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him. As he approached the gate of the town, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow; and with her was a large crowd from […]
URC Daily Devotion 26th January 2019
After Jesus had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. A centurion there had a slave whom he valued highly, and who was ill and close to death. When he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave. When […]
URC Daily Devotion 24th January 2019
‘No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit; for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person […]
URC Daily Devotion 23rd January 2019
‘Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap; for the measure you give will be the […]
URC Daily Devotion 22nd January 2019
‘But I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from anyone who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt. Give to […]