Unity does not just happen, we have to work at it. In the United Reformed Church, unity is one of the core values and the gift it offers to the wider Body of Christ; unity with our brother and sister, unity with other denominations and unity with those people who we find it difficult to […]
Daily Devotion 18th November 2018
Hopefully reading the first ten verses of this Psalm will encourage you to read the next eighteen! The writer gives us one verse of assurance, one of insecurity, and then eight of envy. But, if you read on, the writer is drawn close to God through a visit to the Temple and the Psalm ends, […]
Daily Devotion 17th November 2018
The Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it became very ill. David therefore pleaded with God for the child; David fasted, and went in and lay all night on the ground. The elders of his house stood beside him, urging him to rise from the ground; but he would not, […]
Daily Devotion 16th November 2018
But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord, and the Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, ‘There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor. The rich man had very many flocks and herds; but the poor man had nothing but […]
Daily Devotion 15th November 2018
“The shoe is on the other foot now!” The last Daily Devotion I wrote had David fleeing for his life from the murderous rage of King Saul. In contrast, David’s murderous actions against Uriah are cold, calculated, planned. In modern legal terms, it would be described as ‘with intent’ and ‘a significant degree of premeditation’. […]
Wednesday 14th November 2018
In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. It happened, late one afternoon, when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof […]
Daily Devotion 13th November 2018
Then King David went in and sat before the Lord, and said, ‘Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God; you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while […]
Praying the Way with Matthew, Mark, Luke & John
Dear <<First Name>> The Rev’d Terry Hinks, one of our regular writers, and minister of Trinity Church High Wycombe and Cores End URC, has written a book of reflections entitled Praying the Way with Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. This is published by the Bible Reading Fellowship and priced at £10.99. It is a collection of prayers and reflections, […]
Daily Devotion 11th November 2018
Endow the king with justice, LORD,The royal son with righteousness.Your people, your afflicted ones,He’ll judge with truth and uprightness. The mountains will bring peace to them,The hills the fruit of righteousness.He will defend and save the poor,And crush all those who them oppress. As long as sun and moon endure,So will he live time without […]
Saturday 10th November Matthew Prevett
When out of poverty is borna dream that will not die,and landless, weary folk find strengthto stand with heads held high,it’s then we learn from those who waitto greet the promised day,‘The Lord is coming; don’t lose heart.Be blest: prepare the way!’ When people wander far from God,forget to share their bread,they find their wealth […]