James 5: 16 – 20 Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective. Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months […]
URC Daily Devotion 3 December 2021
Friday December 3, 2021 James 5: 13 – 15 Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of praise. Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of […]
URC Daily Devotion 2 December 2021
Thursday December 2, 2021 James 5: 12 Above all, my beloved, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your ‘Yes’ be yes and your ‘No’ be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation. Reflection There are many echoes in this letter of teachings […]
URC Daily Devotion 1 December 2021
Wednesday December 1, 2021 James 5: 9 – 11 Beloved, do not grumble against one another, so that you may not be judged. See, the Judge is standing at the doors! As an example of suffering and patience, beloved, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Indeed we call blessed those […]
URC Daily Devotion 30 November 2021
Tuesday November 30, 2021 James 5: 7 – 8 Be patient, therefore, beloved, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious crop from the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains. You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the […]
URC Daily Devotion 29 November 2021
Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last […]
URC Daily Devotions Sunday Service for 28th November 2021 – Advent 1 – The Revd. Andy Braunston
Daily Devotions Service forThe First Sunday of Advent 202128th November The Rev’d Andy Braunston Opening Music U2 – Tomorrow Welcome and Introduction Hello, my name is Andy Braunston and I work with four churches in and around Glasgow. Today is the first Sunday of Advent – a time of looking forward and looking back. We look back […]
URC Daily Devotion 27th November 2021
James 4: 13 – 17 Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.’ Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a […]
URC Daily Devotion 26th November 2021
Friday 26th November 2021 James 4: 11 – 12Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another, speaks evil against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is one lawgiver […]
URC Daily Devotion 25th November 2021
James 4: 7 – 9 ‘God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.’ Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep. Let […]