What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God […]
URC Daily Devotion 10th September 2019
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will […]
URC Daily Devotion 9th September 2019
I would need to have greater experience of suffering before stating so confidently to others, ‘the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.’ Of course, it’s Paul who says it, and he knew more about suffering than I do. Beaten, rejected and imprisoned on […]
URC Daily Devotion 8th September 2019
1 Praise GOD: ye servants of the LORD,O praise, the LORD’s name praise.2 Yea, blessèd be the name of GODfrom this time forth always. 3 From rising sun to where it sets,GOD’s name is to be praised.4 Above all nations GOD is high,‘bove heav’ns his glory raised. 5 Unto the LORD our God that dwellson […]
URC Daily Devotion 7th September 2019
These are powerful, life changing verses. What does it mean to be in the Spirit? Verse 9 tells us we are no longer in the flesh but because of righteousness (being made right with God through Christ’s death), we are ‘life’, we are alive in the Spirit. It has nothing to do with who we […]
URC Daily Devotion 6th September 2019
Although these verses are full of release they may cause us inner conflict, perhaps even feeling like a bit of a damper at times; bringing us into the sense of condemnation, which we are told we are no longer subject to. They can come across as being very different to a lot of things that […]
URC Daily Devotion 5th September 2019
It can be a little unnerving to hear Paul talking in terms of not being able to do the good that he wants to do. It’s usually others that he is taking to task for getting things wrong – whether it’s the ‘foolish Galatians’ or the Corinthians that he ‘does not commend’. Not only that, […]
URC Daily Devotion 4th September 2019
What then should we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, ‘You shall not covet.’ But sin, seizing an opportunity in the […]
URC Daily Devotion 3rd September 2019
Paul reflects on the way life changes as circumstances change. He is writing to knowledgeable people who understand the Law. They had been bound by the Law and he wants them to understand how their lives had changed. The biggest change in our relationship with God was the life on earth of His son Jesus. […]
URC Daily Devotion 2nd September 2019
Come with me to the land of my nightmares. Marmite is discovered to be a wonder-food. (If you like Marmite, pretend with me that you don’t.) More than just packed with B-vitamins, Marmite heals all ills, ends war, solves global warming and even cures the common cold! Eat Marmite and I’ll never die! Amazing – […]