After this he fell in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. The lords of the Philistines came to her and said to her, ‘Coax him, and find out what makes his strength so great, and how we may overpower him, so that we may bind him in order […]
Sunday Service 3 May 2026
Welcome and Introduction Hello and welcome to worship. My name is Andy Braunston and I am the United Reformed Church’s Minister for Digital Worship; I live up in Orkney but, when this service is used, I will be on sabbatical and travelling back from France and Italy where I’ll be looking at how faithful disciples have responded […]
URC Daily Devotion 2 May 2026
Selected verses from Judges 15:1 – 8, 18-20; 16: 1-3 After a while, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife, bringing along a kid. He said, ‘I want to go into my wife’s room.’ But her father would not allow him to go in. Her father said, ‘I was sure […]
URC Daily Devotion 1 May 2026
Judges 14 Once Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw a Philistine woman. Then he came up, and told his father and mother, ‘I saw a Philistine woman at Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.’ But his father and mother said to him, ‘Is there not a woman among your […]
URC Daily Devotion 30 April 2026
Judges 13:2 – 25 The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years. There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. His wife was barren, having borne no children. And […]
URC Daily Devotion 29 April 2026
Judges 10:1-5 and 12:7-15 After Abimelech, Tola son of Puah son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, who lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim, rose to deliver Israel. He judged Israel for twenty-three years. Then he died, and was buried at Shamir. After him came Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel for twenty-two […]
URC Daily Devotion 28 April 2026
Judges 12:1-6 The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, ‘Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites, and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house down over you!’ Jephthah said to them, ‘My people and I were engaged […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 27 April 2026
Judges 11:29-40 Then the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh. He passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites. And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, and said, ‘If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, […]
Sunday Service 26th April 2026
Introduction Hello, my name is Nicola Furley-Smith and I am the Deputy General Secretary for Ministries. Our service today comes from Purley United Reformed Church. Call to Worship Come and worship the living God, whose goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives. Come and worship the living God who gathers us to his side, as […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 25 April 2026
Judges 11:1-28 Now Jephthah the Gileadite, the son of a prostitute, was a mighty warrior. Gilead was the father of Jephthah. Gilead’s wife also bore him sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah away, saying to him, ‘You shall not inherit anything in our father’s house; for you are the son […]