Whatever we do – the ‘work of our hands’, however small and insignificant it may seem – matters to God. It’s part of our worship and how we serve others and bear witness to God. Paul knew that whatever early Christians were doing in worship, in work, indeed in all of life, could be significant …
Tuesday 17th May 2022 St John 4: 43 – 54 When the two days were over, he went from that place to Galilee (for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honour in the prophet’s own country). When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all that he …
Monday 16th May 2022 St John 4: 31 – 38 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, ‘Rabbi, eat something.’ But he said to them, ‘I have food to eat that you do not know about.’ So the disciples said to one another, ‘Surely no one has brought him something to eat?’ Jesus said to them, …
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Daily Devotions from the United Reformed ChurchWorship for Sunday 15th May 2022The Fifth Sunday of Easter The Rev’d Andy Braunston Introduction Hello and welcome to worship. My name is Andy Braunston and I am the United Reformed Church’s Minister for Digital Worship. My role is to help provide a range of resources for worship to churches to …
Saturday 14th May 2022 St John 4: 1 – 30, 39-42 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, ‘Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John’— although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized— he left Judea and started back to Galilee. But he had to go through Samaria. …
St John 3: 22 – 35 After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he spent some time there with them and baptized. John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim because water was abundant there; and people kept coming and were being baptized— John, of course, had not yet been …
St John 3: 1 – 21 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to him, ‘Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence …
St John 2: 13 – 25 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money-changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and …
St John 2: 1 – 12 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ And Jesus said …