Declare me innocent, O LORD;I’ve walked in blameless ways,And I have trusted in the LORD,not wav’ring all my days. Test me, O LORD, and try my heart;my inmost thoughts survey.Your love surrounds me; from your truthmy feet will never stray. I do not sit with worthless folk;I shun the hypocrite.I hate the wicked’s gatherings;with them […]
URC Daily Devotion 2nd December 2017
When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. […]
URC Daily Devotion 1st December 2017
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, ‘They have taken the […]
URC Daily Devotion 30th November 2017
Then Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus; and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus between them. […]
URC Daily Devotion 29th November 2017
Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate’s headquarters. It was early in the morning. They themselves did not enter the headquarters, so as to avoid ritual defilement and to be able to eat the Passover. So Pilate went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?” They answered, […]
URC Daily Devotion 28 November 2017
So the soldiers, their officer, and the Jewish police arrested Jesus and bound him. 13 First they took him to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year. Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was better to have one person die for the people. Simon Peter […]
URC Daily Devotion 27 November 2017
After Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with his disciples. So Judas brought a detachment of soldiers together […]
URC Daily Devotion 26th November 2017
To you, O LORD, I lift my soul;I trust in you continually.Do not let me be put to shame,Nor let my foes gloat over me. No one who sets his hope in youWill ever suffer such disgrace,But those who act with treacheryHumiliating shame will face. O LORD, reveal to me your ways,And all your paths […]
URC Daily Devotion 25th November
Born in Southampton in 1674, Isaac Watts was educated at the local grammar school and had the opportunity to go on to university, but was unable to do so as he was a Dissenter – Oxford and Cambridge were only open to Anglicans. Instead he attended the the Dissenting Academy at Stoke Newington. He received […]
URC Daily Devotion by Verena Walder
After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said,“Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they may […]