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 […]
URC Daily Devotion 14th February 2019
Now about eight days after these sayings Jesus took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray. And while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white. Suddenly they saw two men, Moses and Elijah, talking to him. They appeared in […]
URC Daily Devotion 13th February 2019
He sternly ordered and commanded them not to tell anyone, saying, ‘The Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.’ Then he said to them all, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny […]