Thursday 10th December – People Look East Eleanor Farjeon is best remembered for Morning has Broken. She wrote this Advent carol based on a passage in Baruck (5:5-7) where the people were told to look to the East to see the people gathered in by the Lord. A committed Christian, Farjeon used the carol to remind […]
URC Daily Devotion 9th December 2020
Wednesday 9th December – Earth was Waiting Spent and Restless This year our nations, with the rest of the world, had a stark lesson in waiting – having to wait indoors, waiting for the pandemic to pass, waiting for infection rates to fall. Advent is about waiting, something we find difficult. Romans 8: 18-25 I consider […]
URC Daily Devotion 8th December 2020
Tuesday 8th December Thou Whose Almighty Word In the northern hemisphere Advent is a dark time of the year and can often be dark emotionally as we remember those no longer with us. Our hymn, written by John Marriott, plays with the idea of light – ironic since he died at a young age from […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 7th December 2020
Monday 7th December This is the Record of John Today’s reading is set as a canticle for morning prayer meaning Zechariah’s prophecy over John the Baptist became known in the Church. John the Baptist went ahead of Jesus to prepare the way, Orlando Gibbon’s anthem shows John’s conflict with the authorities. St Luke 8: 68-79 […]
URC Daily Devotion Sunday Worship – 6th December 2020
URC Daily Devotion Worship for Sunday 6th December 2020 Advent 2 – Return and Judgement Opening Music: Dies Irae – Karl Jenkins The Dies Irea (Day of Wrath) is an ancient Christian poem in Latin. It means Day of wrath, that dayWill dissolve the earth in ashesAs David and the Sibyl bear witness.What dread there will beWhen […]
URC Daily Devotion 5th December 2020
Saturday 5th December Wait for the Lord The Taizé Community in France was founded by Reformed pastor Roger Schutz who had helped Jews escape over the border into Switzerland during the war. It is an ecumenical community working with the young in particular with distinctive worship based on simple chants. Today’s song takes up the […]
URC Daily Devotion 4th December 2020
Friday 4th December In the popular mind Advent is about preparing for Christmas but we’re also called to prepare for the Second Coming of our Lord. Wesley’s great hymn reminds us of this. Revelation 1: 3 – 8 Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who […]
Some More Recorders Needed
Could you Help? Hi folks, we have a small team of people who can, at reasonably short notice, record either a Daily Devotion or a part of a Sunday service. We like to have a variety of voices, especially in the Services. How it Works…. I send out an email asking people to volunteer to […]
URC Daily Devotion 2nd December 2020
Wednesday 2nd December Today’s song was written by the 4th Century bishop Ambrose of Milan. He was elected bishop before being baptised or ordained! He became famous for his preaching and was influential in converting St Augustine. Isaiah 9:6-7 For a child has been born for us, a son given to us;authority rests upon his shoulders; and […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 1st December 2020
Tuesday 1st December – The Advent Responsory The Advent Responsory often marks the start of Advent Carol services and comes from the Magnificat and Matins; it reminds us that Advent is intended to be a time of preparation and repentance. We remember Christ’s coming in glory as both judge and saviour. St Matthew 25: 31-33, […]