Song of Songs 8.8-14 We have a little sister, and she has no breasts.What shall we do for our sister, on the day when she is spoken for?If she is a wall, we will build upon her a battlement of silver;but if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.I was a wall, and my breasts […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 3rd May 2022
Song of Songs 8.6-7 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm;for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave.Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame.Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.If one offered for love all the wealth of one’s house, it would be utterly scorned. Reflection […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 2nd May 2022
Song of Songs 8.1-5 O that you were like a brother to me, who nursed at my mother’s breast!If I met you outside, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother, and into the chamber of the one who bore me.I would give you spiced […]
URC Daily Devotion Sunday 1st May
My song forever shall recordthe tender mercies of the Lord;your faithfulness will I proclaim,and ev’ry age shall know your name. 2 I sing of mercies that endure,forever builded firm and sure,of faithfulness that never dies,established changeless in the skies. 3 Behold God’s truth and grace displayed,for he has faithful cov’nant made,and he has sworn that […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 30 April 2022
Song of Songs 6.13 and 7.1-13 Return, return, O Shulammite! Return, return, that we may look upon you.Why should you look upon the Shulammite, as upon a dance before two armies? How graceful are your feet in sandals, O queenly maiden!Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand. Your navel is a rounded bowl that never […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 29 April 2022
Song of Songs 5.8-16 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved,tell him this: I am faint with love. What is your beloved more than another beloved, O fairest among women?What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us? My beloved is all radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand. His head […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 28 April 2022
Content warning: this reading and the reflection upon it feature violence against women Song of Songs 5.2-7 I slept, but my heart was awake.Listen! my beloved is knocking.‘Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one;for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.’ I had put off […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 27 April 2022
Song of Songs 4.1-16 How beautiful you are, my love, how very beautiful!Your eyes are doves behind your veil.Your hair is like a flock of goats, moving down the slopes of Gilead. Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing,all of which bear twins, and not one among them is bereaved. Your […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 26 April 2022
Song of Songs 3.6-11 What is that coming up from the wilderness, like a column of smoke,perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of the merchant? Look, it is the litter of Solomon!Around it are sixty mighty men of the mighty men of Israel,all equipped with swords and expert in war,each with his sword at his thigh because […]
URC Daily Devotions Sunday Service for 24th April 2022 – The Revd. David Coleman
Daily Devotions from the United Reformed ChurchWorship for Sunday 24th April 2022The Second Sunday of EasterBy Caravaggio – http://www.christusrex.org/www2/art/images/carav10.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6804893 The Rev’d David Coleman Introduction Hello, my name is David Coleman. Welcome, friends, from Edinburgh, where I’m based as Environmental Chaplain with EcoCongregation Scotland, a special category ministry of the United Reformed Church, working […]