Friday 12th June 2020 – Esau and Jacob 6 Genesis 33: 1-17 Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids. He put the maids with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 11th June 2020
Thursday 11th June 2020 – Wrestling with God Genesis 32: 22 – 32 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. Jacob was left […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 10th June 2020
Wednesday 10th June 2020 – Esau and Jacob 5 from Genesis 32 Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him; and when Jacob saw them he said, ‘This is God’s camp!’ So he called that place Mahanaim. Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 9th June 2020
Tuesday 9th June 2020 The rest of the tribe from Genesis 30 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, ‘Give me children, or I shall die!’ Jacob became very angry with Rachel and said, ‘Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 8th June 2020
Monday 8th June 2020 – Jacob, Rachel and Leah from Genesis 29 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the people of the east. As he looked, he saw a well in the field and three flocks of sheep lying there beside it; for out of that well the flocks were […]
Sunday Worship 7th June The Rev’d Neil Thorogood
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 7th June Today’s Service is led by the Rev’d Neil Thorogood Introduction Introit I Bind Unto Myself This Day (St Patrick) I bind unto myself today the strong name of […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 6th June 2020
Saturday 6th June 2020 –Jacob’s Dream Genesis 28: 10 – 22 Jacob left Beer-sheba and went towards Haran. He came to a certain place and stayed there for the night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place. […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 5th June 2020
Genesis 27: 41 – 45 Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, ‘The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.’ But the words of her elder son Esau were told to Rebekah; so she […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 4th June 2020
When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite; and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah. When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called his elder son Esau and said to him, […]
Trinity Sunday
Trinity Sunday Dear Friends, Sunday’s service will reflect on the Trinity and is led by the Rev’d Neil Thorogood who is finishing his ministry at Westminster College and preparing to move to Gloucestershire. Our worship is aided by lovely music including part of St Patrick’s Breastplate, John Bell and Graham Maule’s Today I Awake, the […]