Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. ‘Teacher,’ he said, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ He said to him, ‘What is written in the law? What do you read there?’ He answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with […]
URC Daily Devotion 27th February 2019
At that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, ‘I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me […]
URC Daily Devotion 26th February 2019
The seventy returned with joy, saying, ‘Lord, in your name even the demons submit to us!’ He said to them, ‘I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning. See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt […]
URC Daily Devotion 25th March 2019
Then he told this parable: ‘A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. So he said to the gardener, “See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! […]
URC Daily Devotion 24th February 2019
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 […]