Teresa was born into an aristocratic Spanish family in 1515. Following her mother’s death, she was educated by Augustinian nuns and then ran away from home to enter a Carmelite convent when she was twenty. After initial difficulties in prayer, her intense mystical experiences attracted many disciples. She was inspired to reform the Carmelite rule […]
URC Daily Devotion 15th October
Students of Apologetics (that is, the presentation of reasoning or evidence that supports the claims of Christian faith) sometimes speak of two broad ways in which we learn of God’s presence and activity. Special revelation is the term used for God’s dealings with humanity through the Law and the Prophets, through Scripture’s record of anointed […]
URC Daily Devotion 14th October
When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, got into a boat, and started across the lake to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. The lake became rough because a strong wind was blowing. When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus […]
URC Daily Devotion 13th October
After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick. Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there with his disciples. Now the Passover, the festival of […]
URC Daily Devotion 12th October
Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing; and he will show him greater works […]
URC Daily Devotion 11th October
At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, ‘It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.’ But he answered them, ‘The man who […]
URC Daily Devotion 10th October
After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus […]
URC Daily Devotion 9th October
When the two days were over, he went from that place to Galilee (for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honour in the prophet’s own country). When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had all seen what he had done in Jerusalem at the Festival: for they too […]
URC Daily Devotion 8th October
I love you, LORD! You are my strength.A fortress is the LORD to me—My rock and my deliverer;For refuge to my God I flee. He is my stronghold and my shield,The LORD who saves me by his might.I’ll call on him and give him praise.I’m saved; he puts my foes to flight. The cords of […]
URC Daily Devotion 7th October
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, “Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John” —although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized— he left Judea and started back to Galilee. But he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the […]