inspiration in your inbox Sunday, 16 July 2023 Psalm 143 free me from my foes, that I may serve you well.For your great Name’s sake, my griefs and fears dispel;let your Spirit lead through level pathways still.Keep me safe, O God, and help me learn your will; show me how to walk, for I will […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday, 15 July
Hebrews 10:24 – 25 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Reflection I came to the UK through the Council […]
URC Daily Devotion 13 July 2023
Galatians 5: 1 – 15 For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Listen! I, Paul, am telling you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you. Once again I testify to every man who lets […]
Worship Notes and Weekly Intercessions for Sunday
Resources for Worship Dear Friends, Worship is at the heart of our life as God’s people. Whatever else we do, worship is at the core as it is through meeting God – in the hymns and the music, the movement and the silence, the Word and the words, in friend and stranger as well as […]
URC Daily Devotion 12 July 2023
1 Corinthians 12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even […]
URC Daily Devotion 11 July 2023
1 Peter 2.11-14 Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul. Conduct yourselves honourably among the Gentiles, so that, though they malign you as evildoers, they may see your honourable deeds and glorify God when he comes to judge. For the […]
URC Daily Devotion 10 July 2023
Luke 19: 1 – 10 He entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. So, he ran ahead […]
URC Daily Devotion 8th July 2023
ReadingActs 4.32-35 All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all that […]
URC Daily Devotion 7th July 2023
Reading St John 5:1-18 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 paralysed. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight […]
URC Daily Devotion 6th July 2023
Luke 2: 1-12, 15-17 When he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. So many gathered around that there was no longer room for them, not even in front of the door; and he was speaking the word to them. Then some people came, bringing to him a […]