He looked up and saw rich people putting their gifts into the treasury; he also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. He said, ‘Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them; for all of them have contributed out of their abundance, but she out […]
URC Daily Devotion 2nd May 2019
Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question, ‘Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married, […]
URC Daily Devotion 1st May 2019
So they watched him and sent spies who pretended to be honest, in order to trap him by what he said, so as to hand him over to the jurisdiction and authority of the governor. So they asked him, ‘Teacher, we know that you are right in what you say and teach, and you show […]
URC Daily Devotion 30th April 2019
Frank Sinatra is one of the 20th Century’s most celebrated artists. Famously, Sinatra popularised the song “My Way” in 1969 which became an anthem for individualism in Western culture: I’ve lived a life that’s fullI’ve traveled each and every highwayAnd more, much more than thisI did it my way This is a song for the […]
URC Daily Devotion 29th April 2019
One day, as he was teaching the people in the temple and telling the good news, the chief priests and the scribes came with the elders and said to him, ‘Tell us, by what authority are you doing these things? Who is it who gave you this authority?’ He answered them, ‘I will also ask […]
URC Daily Devotion 28th April 2019
1 O LORD, the God of vengeance,O righteous God, shine forth!2 Arise, condemn the haughty,O Judge of all the earth. 3 How long will evildoers,O LORD, be jubilant?4 They pour out wicked boasting;their words are arrogant. 5 O LORD, they crush your people,oppress your heritage;6 The widow, stranger, orphanthey murder in their rage. 7 They […]
URC Daily Devotion Easter Saturday 2019
As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. So he said, ‘A nobleman went to a distant country to get royal power for himself and then return. He summoned ten of his […]
URC Daily Devotion Easter Friday 2019
He entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax-collector and was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycomore tree to […]
URC Daily Devotion Easter Thursday 2019
Then he took the twelve aside and said to them, ‘See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished. For he will be handed over to the Gentiles; and he will be mocked and insulted and spat upon. After they have […]
URC Daily Devotion Easter Wednesday 2019
Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them. While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy; and they were continually in the temple blessing God. Reflection What a […]