Then they said to him, ‘John’s disciples, like the disciples of the Pharisees, frequently fast and pray, but your disciples eat and drink.’ Jesus said to them, ‘You cannot make wedding-guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you? The days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then […]
URC Daily Devotion 14th January 2019
After this he went out and saw a tax-collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up, left everything, and followed him. Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house; and there was a large crowd of tax-collectors and others sitting at […]
URC Daily Devotion 13th January 2019
1 Sing for joy to God our Saviour;shout aloud to Jacob’s Lord!2 Start the music; strike the timbrel;play on strings a pleasing chord. 3 Sound the trumpet at the New Moonand at the full moon as well,4 At the feast by God appointedand decreed for Israel. 5 God ordained this law for Josephwhen he ravaged […]
URC Daily Devotion 12th January 2019
One day, while he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting nearby (they had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem); and the power of the Lord was with him to heal. Just then some men came, carrying a paralysed man on a bed. They were trying to […]
URC Daily Devotion 11th January 2019
‘Lord if you choose you can make me clean.’ I’m sometimes a little annoyed with the Jesus we meet at the end of this passage. He seems to disappear into selfishness, leaving behind the hurting; choosing not to heal them. Perhaps this is Jesus showing a bit of his humanity and, when I am stressed […]
URC Daily Devotion 10th January 2019
Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats, the […]
URC Daily Devotion 9th January 2019
“Not for ever in green pasturesdo we ask our way to be;but the steep and rugged pathwaymay we tread rejoicingly.” Perhaps we mean the words of Rejoice & Sing 495 as we sing them, but how enthusiastic are we to act upon them? Jesus had felt at home in Capernaum, a far more welcoming, interesting […]
URC Daily Devotion 8th January 2018
After leaving the synagogue he entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked him about her. Then he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them. As the sun was setting, all those who had any […]
URC Daily Devotion 7th January 2019
He went down to Capernaum, a city in Galilee, and was teaching them on the sabbath. They were astounded at his teaching, because he spoke with authority. In the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, ‘Let us alone! What have […]
URC Daily Devotion 6th January 2019
1 Hear us, O Israel’s Shepherd, Joseph’s guide,The one enthroned between the cherubim.2 Show forth your splendour to the threatened tribes,Manasseh, Benjamin and Ephraim.Come to our aid, O God, stir up your might;3 Restore and save us! Shed on us your light! 4 LORD God of hosts, when will your anger ceaseTo burn against the […]