Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and […]
URC Daily Devotion 17th January 2019
On another sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there whose right hand was withered. The scribes and the Pharisees watched him to see whether he would cure on the sabbath, so that they might find an accusation against him. Even though he knew what they were thinking, he said […]
URC Daily Devotion 16th January 2019
One sabbath while Jesus was going through the cornfields, his disciples plucked some heads of grain, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them. But some of the Pharisees said, ‘Why are you doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?’ Jesus answered, ‘Have you not read what David did when he and his companions […]
URC Daily Devotion 15th January 2019
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 […]