8 December 2022 St Matthew 5: 43 – 47 (NIV) “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbour and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 7 December 2022
7 December 2022 Can I turn a blind eye to injustice? Proverbs 24:10-12 If you faint in the day of adversity,your strength being small;if you hold back from rescuing those taken away to death,those who go staggering to the slaughter;if you say, “Look, we did not know this”—does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?Does not […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 6 December 2022
St Mark 10.17-21 As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. You know the commandments: ‘You shall not […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 5 December 2022
2 Timothy 4: 6 – 8 As for me, I am already being poured out as a libation, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. From now on there is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which […]
URC Daily Devotion Sunday 4th December 2022
Sunday 4 December 2022 World Cup 3 – Domestic Violence – Skewed Perceptions from Lamentations 1 She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks…she has no one to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies. Her foes have become the masters, her enemies prosper, […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 3rd December 2022
When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered around him; and he was by the sea. Then one of the leaders of the synagogue named Jairus came and, when he saw him, fell at his feet and begged him repeatedly, “My little daughter is at the point […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 2nd December 2022
Romans 12: 1-12 I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern […]
URC Daily Devotion 1st December 2022
St Luke 1: 26 – 38 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, ‘Greetings, favoured one! […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 30 November 2022
Bathsheba The Victim Who Became Queen Mother verses from 2 Samuel 11 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. It happened, late one afternoon, when David […]
Worship Notes for 4th December
Worship Notes Dear Friends, Each week we gather in church and chapel, community centre or around a screen to worship. In worship we find God – in the music and silence, in the word read and proclaimed, in bread and wine and in each other. Faithfully, week after week, ministers, elders, and lay preachers lead […]