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 4 July 2023
St Luke 8: 41- 56 Then a man named Jairus, a leader of the local synagogue, came and fell at Jesus’ feet, pleading with him to come home with him. His only daughter, who was about twelve years old, was dying. As Jesus went with him, he was surrounded by the crowds. A woman in […]
URC Daily Devotion 3 July 2023
Monday, 3 July 2023 Working together for patients Exodus 1 v 15 -21 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, ‘When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but […]
The Values of the NHS
The Values of the NHS Dear <<First Name>> I hope you found the last week’s reflections on rest both restful and thoughtful. For the next week we’re going to look at the values of the NHS. On Wednesday 5th July, the National Health Service will be 75 years old. It is said, wryly, that the NHS […]
URC Daily Devotion 1st July 2023
St Matthew 26: 36 – 46 Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, ‘Sit here while I go over there and pray.’ He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and agitated. Then he said to them, ‘I […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 30th June 2023
I Kings 19: 1 – 18 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, ‘So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life like the life of […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 29th June 2023
Leviticus 25: 8 – 17 You shall count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the period of seven weeks of years gives forty-nine years. Then you shall have the trumpet sounded loud; on the tenth day of the seventh month—on the day of atonement—you shall have the trumpet sounded throughout […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 28th June2023
Wednesday, 28 June 2023 Every Seventh Year Leviticus 25: 1 – 7 The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying: Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land shall observe a sabbath for the Lord. For six years you shall sow […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Leviticus 23:3 For six days shall work be done; but the seventh day is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work: it is a sabbath to the Lord throughout your settlements. Reflection One of the difficulties in ministry is that we work on a Sunday. If the Sabbath (Sundays […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday, 26 June 2023
Genesis 1.1 – 2:4 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. And God saw […]