Saturday 30th May – Abraham and Issac Genesis 22: 1 – 19 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 29th May
Friday 29th May – Jealousy within the Family Genesis 21: 1 – 21 Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 28th May
Thursday 28th May – Lot and His Daughters Genesis 19: 30-38 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 27th May
Wednesday 27th May – Sodom Destroyed Genesis 19: 1 – 25 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. “My lords,” he said, “please turn […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 26th May
Tuesday 26th May – Pleading for Sodom Genesis 18:20-33 Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.” The […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 25th May
Monday 25th May – The Three Visitors Genesis 18: 1 – 15 The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from […]
Sunday Worship for 24th May – The Rev’d Michael Hopkins
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 24th May Today’s service comes from the Spire Church, a Methodist and United Reformed Church local ecumenical partnership at Farnham in Surrey. The service is led by the Rev’d Michael Hopkins. You may wish to light a candle during the Call to Worship. Welcome Good morning. My name […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 23rd May
Saturday 23rd May – The Covenant with Abraham Genesis 17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.” Abram fell facedown, and God […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 22nd May 2020
Friday 22nd May – Hagar and Ishmael Reading – Genesis 16 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 21st May
Thursday 21st May – Abram the Pimp Genesis 12: 10-20 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you […]