St Luke 4: 1 – 13 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. The devil said to […]
Daily Devotion for Tuesday 15th October 2024
St John 18: 38 Pilate asked Jesus, ‘What is truth?’ Reflection When I was a child there were fewer sources of news. Just three TV channels – and I’m pretty sure BBC2 didn’t have an early evening news programme. More people read newspapers whose ideologies were memorably satirised by the TV comedy Yes Minister. Fewer […]
Daily Devotion for Monday 14th October 2024
Monday 14 October 2024Reflections on Difficult Times 7 – Neither Jew nor Gentile Galatians 3: 27 – 28 As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all […]
Sunday Worship 13 October 2024
For each of these days we bring our thanks, knowing and trusting that God has been with us. As we worship we celebrate that God is with us each and every day. God is with us now. Hymn New Every Morning is the LoveJohn Keeble 1822 Public Domain sung by the choir of […]
Daily Devotion for Saturday 12th October 2024
Saturday 12 October 2024Reflections on Difficult Times 6 – The aliens in the Land Genesis 15:13 Then the Lord said to Abram, ‘Know this for certain, that your offspring shall be aliens in a land that is not theirs, and shall be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years; Leviticus 19:34 […]
Daily Devotion for Friday 11th October 2024
St Luke 10: 15 – 37 Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. ‘Teacher,’ he said, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ He said to him, ‘What is written in the law? What do you read there?’ He answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and […]
Daily Devotion for Thursday 10th October 2024
Acts 2: 1 – 13 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue […]
Daily Devotion for Wednesday 9th October 2024
Genesis 11: 1 – 9 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, ‘Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.’ And they had brick […]
Daily Devotion for Tuesday 8th October 2024
Genesis 1: 26 – 27 Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing […]
Daily Devotion for Monday 7th October 2024
Monday 7 October 2024 Reflections on Difficult Times 1 – Perfect Love Casts Out All Fear I John 4: 16b – 21 God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of […]