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 […]
URC Daily Devotion 23rd November
Jesus said: “A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me.” Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying to us, ‘A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again alittle while, and […]
URC Daily Devotion 22nd November
Jesus said: “But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you about them. I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going to him who sent me; yet none of you […]
URC Daily Devotion 21st November
‘If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world—therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I […]
URC Daily Devotion 20th November
I have always found verse 3 difficult, and have reflected on it here by bringing a number of ideas and verses together. First, the ‘already’ is interesting – Jesus is talking to his closest disciples in the hours immediately preceding betrayal, denial, abandonment, arrest and torture – before the cross. Yet already Jesus has accomplished […]
URC Daily Devotion 19th November
The world and all in it are God’s,all peoples of the earth,For it was founded by the LORDupon the seas beneath. Who may ascend the hill of God,or in his temple stand?The one who shuns false gods and lies,who’s pure in heart and hand. He will find favour from the LORD,and from his Saviour grace.Thus […]
URC Daily Devotion 18th November
Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” Jesus answered him, ‘Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Whoever does not love […]
URC Daily Devotion 17th November
Hilda was born in 614 of the royal house of Northumbria. Baptised in York at the age of twelve by the Roman missionary Paulinus, she was later an influential lay leader of the Church. She was encouraged by Aidan of Lindisfarne to become a nun, and subsequently established a monastery at Streanaeshalch (Whitby). This house […]