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 […]
An Eco Advent Calendar
An Eco Advent Calendar Dear Friends, Happy Advent! URC Minister, David Coleman, is chaplain to Eco Congregations Scotland and has co-ordinated a wide range of people to write short Advent video reflections. They start today and can be seen here https://www.ecocongregationscotland.org/advent-calendar-2022/ and continue all the way to Christmas. They are well worth a view as […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 26 November 2022
It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and settled near a certain Adullamite whose name was Hirah. There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; he married her and went in to her. She conceived and bore a son; and he named him Er. Again […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 25 November 2022
An account of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and […]
Women in the Messianic Line
Women in the Messianic Line Dear Friends, I hope our long read through Acts has been interesting – we don’t often read the whole book through and only some of it appears in the regular cycle of readings we hear on Sundays. To start off our Advent reflections we’re going to be looking at the […]
Weekly Intercessions for the First Sunday of Advent
Weekly Intercessions for the First Sunday of Advent Dear Friends, the Rev’d Jacky Embrey has prepared this week’s intercessions which may be useful for public worship, private prayer or as a focus for small groups. You can download them here. With every good wish Andy The Rev’d Andy BraunstonMinister for Digital Worship
URC Daily Devotion 22 November 2022
Three months later we set sail on a ship that had wintered at the island, an Alexandrian ship with the Twin Brothers as its figurehead. We put in at Syracuse and stayed there for three days; then we weighed anchor and came to Rhegium. After one day there a south wind sprang up, and on […]
Worship Notes for the First Sunday of Advent
Worship Notes Dear Friends, Every week we offer worship to God, bringing our prayers and our pain, our praises and our persistence in many different ways and styles. Our people meet in small and large groups, in church, chapel and community centres, sometimes in fellowship with sisters and brothers from other traditions, sometimes as stand […]