worship to comfort & inspire, excite & energise Order of Service Below you will find the Order of Service, prayers, hymns and sermon for today’s service. You can either simply read this or you can to listen to the service and sing along with the hymns. This will open up a new screen, at the bottom of […]
URC Daily Devotion for 4-10-2025
1 Timothy 5: 23 – 25 No longer drink only water, but take a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments. The sins of some people are conspicuous and precede them to judgement, while the sins of others follow them there. So also good works are conspicuous; and even when […]
URC Daily Devotion for 3-10-2025
1 Timothy 5: 21 – 22 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels, I warn you to keep these instructions without prejudice, doing nothing on the basis of partiality. Do not ordain anyone hastily, and do not participate in the sins of others; keep yourself pure. Reflection The […]
A Prayer following today’s tragic events
A Prayer Following today’s tragic events in Manchester, the URC offers the following prayer for use in personal and corporate worship. It may be reproduced freely. With our Jewish sisters and brothers, we grieve, mourn, and pray,bringing to the Eternal One, our pain and protest, our tears and tenderness, our fears and failures. O Most […]
Newstand – October 2025
PDF version to view online or download: Newstand 2025-10 October 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 […]
Newstand – September 2025
PDF version to view online or download: Newstand 2025-09 September 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 […]
URC Daily Devotion for 1-10-2025
1 Timothy 5: 17 – 18 Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honour, especially those who labour in preaching and teaching; for the scripture says, ‘You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain’, and, ‘The labourer deserves to be paid.’ Reflection Whatever our particular ministry […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 30 September 2025
1 Timothy 5: 3 – 16 Honour widows who are really widows. If a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn their religious duty to their own family and make some repayment to their parents; for this is pleasing in God’s sight. The real widow, left alone, has set her hope on God […]
URC Daily Devotion 29 September 2025
1 Timothy 5: 1 – 2 Do not speak harshly to an older man, but speak to him as to a father, to younger men as brothers, to older women as mothers, to younger women as sisters—with absolute purity. Reflection Sometimes in the New Testament there is a possible confusion in the Greek, since the […]
Sunday Worship 28 September 2025
Today’s service is led by the Revd Nicola Furley-Smith Introduction Hello, my name is Nicola Furley-Smith and I am the Deputy General Secretary for Ministries. Today’s service is coming to you from Purley United Reformed Church. Call to Worship Happy are those whose hope is in the Lord their God. Praise the Lord, O […]