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 […]
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 […]