Dear <<First Name>> We live in a difficult time with fast moving circumstances in the face of the Covid 19 epidemic. Since the weekend it has been clear that restrictions were going to be placed on us and yesterday the Prime Minster announced that we should avoid all unnecessary social contact. Older people, and those with […]
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Lenten and Passiontide Hymns Dear Friends, I hope you enjoyed our two weeks’ worth of reflections from David Thompson on Baptism and the Eucharist. As you will have noticed we have now moved on to a new theme looking at Lenten and Passiontide hymns. We hope these are useful to you as we journey through […]
URC Daily Devotion 15th March 2020
Sunday 15th March Psalm 140 1 Save me, O LORD, from evil men;From vi’lent men protect my way,2 For evil schemes are in their hearts,And war they stir up every day.3 Like snakes, their tongues have sharpened tipsWith vipers’ poison on their lips. 4 Keep me, O LORD, from wicked hands;From men of vi’lence set […]
URC Daily Devotion 14th March 2020
Saturday 14th March Reading: Basis of Union of the United Reformed Church (1972) section 15 The United Reformed Church celebrates the gospel sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. When in obedience to the Lord’s command his people show forth his sacrifice on the cross by the bread broken and the wine outpoured for them to eat […]
URC Daily Devotion 13th March 2020
Friday 13th March Reading: Acts 27:33-38 Just before daybreak, Paul urged all of them to take some food, saying, ‘Today is the fourteenth day that you have been in suspense and remaining without food, having eaten nothing. Therefore I urge you to take some food, for it will help you survive; for none of you […]
URC Daily Devotion 12th March 2020
Thursday 12th March Reading: St John 6:35-43, 52-57 Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. Everything that the Father gives […]
Daily Devotion from the URC 11th March 2020
Wednesday 11th March Reading: St John 13:1-5; 12-17, 20 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end…And during supper Jesus, knowing that the Father […]
URC Daily Devotion 10th March 2020
Tuesday 10th March Reading: St Luke 22:13-23 So they went and found everything as he had told them; and they prepared the Passover meal. When the hour had come (Jesus) took his place at the table, and the apostles with him. He said to them, ‘I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you […]
URC Daily Devotion 9th March 2020
Reading: 1 Corinthians, 11:23-26 For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ‘This is my body that is for you. Do this in […]
URC Daily Devotion 8th March 2020
Sunday 8th March Psalm 139 1 You, O LORD, have searched me and you know me;2 when I sit or rise, to you is known.From afar my inner thoughts you ponder—3 both my going out and lying down.4 All my ways you know; I speak no wordbut you know it perfectly, O LORD. 5 For […]