Tuesday 14th May 2024Religious oppression of Queer minorities. Reading Isaiah 56: 1-8 Thus says the Lord: Maintain justice, and do what is right,for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed. Happy is the mortal who does this, the one who holds it fast,who keeps the sabbath, not profaning it, and refrains from doing any evil. Do […]
Daily Devotion for Monday 13th May 2024
Monday 13th May 2024 Reading Mark 5: 24-34 So he went with him. And a large crowd followed him and pressed in on him. Now there was a woman who had been suffering from haemorrhages for twelve years. She had endured much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had; and she was […]
Sunday Worship 12 May 2024
Introduction Hello. I am the Revd Jenny Mills, and I serve the URC in my role as Secretary for Education and Learning and am a member of Church Without Walls in Milton Keynes. I am pleased to be able to join with you in worship today, following the week where we celebrate the Ascension of […]
Daily Devotion for Saturday 11th May 2024
Reading 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 10th May 2024
Reading Isaiah 58:3-6 ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you have not seen it?Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?’“Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers. Your fasting ends in quarrelling and strife, and in striking each other […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 9th May 2024
Reading Luke 4: 17-19 He [Jesus] unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to […]
Worship Resources for Ascension
We are a Worshipping People Dear Friends, Ever since our formation – and for hundreds of years before – we’ve been concerned with worship. From 1972 we’ve looked at how to resource worship in a church which has few, if any, set liturgies. We’ve wanted to reflect the contexts we’ve found ourselves in and to […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 7th May 2024
Reading: Exodus 6: 5-6 I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are holding as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. Say therefore to the Israelites, “I am the Lord, and I will free you from the burdens of the Egyptians and deliver you from slavery to them. I will […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 6th May 2024
Mark 5: 1-20 They came to the other side of the lake, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when he had stepped out of the boat, immediately a man out of the tombs with an unclean spirit met him. He lived among the tombs; and no one could restrain him any more, even with […]
Newstand – May 2024
PDF version to view online or download: Newstand 2024-05 May NOTE: Newstand is formatted onto A5 pages. If you print the PDF you should specify to print as a booklet on A4 paper, double-sided, flipping on short edge. Flipbook version to view online. Click the broken square at the top of the viewer to view […]