18 December 2022 O Adonai (O Lord) O Adonai, and leader of the House of Israel,who appeared to Moses in the fire of the burning bush,and gave him the law on Sinai:Come and redeem us with an outstretched arm. “I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty (El […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 17 December 2022
The AntiphonO Wisdom,coming forth from the mouth of the Most High,reaching from one end to the other,mightily and sweetly ordering all things:Come and teach us the way of prudence. Readings I came forth from the mouth of the Most High (Sirach 24:3) Wisdom reaches mightily from one end of the earth to the other, and […]
URC Daily Devotion for Friday 16th December 2022
Romans 12:1 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect. Reflection I really don’t like creeds. When encountering an unfamiliar hymn or communal reading, I scan ahead before joining in. […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 15 December 2022
1 Corinthians 12:12-27 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 Wednesday 14 December 2022
St Matthew 27:57-60 When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who also was himself a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus; then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. So Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 13 December 2022
2 Corinthians 6:1-10 As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain. For he says, ‘At an acceptable time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have helped you.’See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of […]
URC Daily Devotion 12 December 2022
Ephesians 4:11-16The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, […]
URC Daily Devotion 11 December 2022
Psalm 146: 5-10 Happy the one whose hopes relyon Israel’s God; who made the skyand earth and seas with all their train;God’s truth for ever stands secure;to save th’ oppress’d and feed the poor,and none shall find God’s promise vain. The Lord has eyes to give the blind;arms to uplift the sinking mind;God sends the labouring conscience […]
URC Daily Devotion 10 December 2022
St Luke 4: 16 – 21When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it […]
URC Daily Devotion 9 December 2022
1 Corinthians 9: 19-23 For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might gain all the more. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to gain Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though I […]