Judges 3:1-11 Now these are the nations that the Lord left to test all those in Israel who had no experience of any war in Canaan (it was only that successive generations of Israelites might know war, to teach those who had no experience of it before): the five lords of the Philistines, and all the […]
Sunday Service 12 April 2026
Welcome and Introduction Hello and welcome to worship as we continue our Easter celebrations. In today’s service we think about faith and doubt, joy and sorrow, commitment and salvation. My name is Andy Braunston and I am the United Reformed Church’s Minister for Digital Worship. I live and work up in Orkney off Scotland’s far North Coast but when […]
Daily Devotion for Sunday 12th April
To the Lord in the hour of my distressI call and he answers me.“O Lord, save my soul from lying lips,from the tongue of the deceitful.” What shall he repay you in return,O treacherous tongue?The warriors’ arrows sharpenedand coals, red-hot, blazing. (Alas, that I abide a stranger in Meshech,dwell among the tents of Kedar!) Long enough have I […]
Daily Devotion for Saturday 11th April
Judges 2:11-23 Then the Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and worshipped the Baals; and they abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; they followed other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were all around them, and […]
Daily Devotion for Friday 10th April
Judges 2:1-10 Now the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, ‘I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you into the land that I had promised to your ancestors. I said, “I will never break my covenant with you. For your part, do not make a covenant with the inhabitants […]
Daily Devotion for Thursday 9th April
Judges 1:8-36 Then the people of Judah fought against Jerusalem and took it. They put it to the sword and set the city on fire. Afterwards the people of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowlands. Judah went against the Canaanites who […]
Daily Devotion for Wednesday 8th April
Wednesday, 8 April 2026 Judges 1:1-7 After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the Lord, ‘Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?’ The Lord said, ‘Judah shall go up. I hereby give the land into his hand.’ Judah said to his brother Simeon, ‘Come up with me […]
Judges
Judges Dear Friends, I hope you’ve found our long read through of St Matthew a useful exercise and are enjoying these joyful days of Easter. For the next four weeks or so the Revd Dr Janet Tollington, a retired minister and member of Downing Place URC in Cambridge will lead us through the Book of […]
Daily Devotion for Monday 6th April
St Matthew 28: 11 – 15 While they were going, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests everything that had happened. After the priests had assembled with the elders, they devised a plan to give a large sum of money to the soldiers, telling them, ‘You must say, “His […]
Sunday Service 5th April 2026
Introduction Hello. I’m Neil Thorogood and it’s my joy to welcome you to our worship on this Easter Sunday. I’m the URC minister of two congregations in the South Western Synod. Thornbury is a market town about half an hour from Bristol. Trinity-Henleaze is in one of Bristol’s suburbs. I also have the very great honour […]