Today’s service is led by the Revd Jessica Ashcroft-Townsley Introduction Grace and peace from our Lord Jesus Christ and welcome to worship on this Seventh Sunday After Pentecost. I am the Revd Jessica Ashcroft-Townsley, minister to Kingsteignton URC and companion minister to the Somerset Group of churches of the South Western Synod of the United Reformed […]
Daily Devotion for Saturday 26th July 2025
St John 19: 1 – 11 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they dressed him in a purple robe. They kept coming up to him, saying, ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’ and striking him on the face. Pilate […]
Daily Devotion for Friday 25th July 2025
Friday 25 July 2025 St John 18: 38 – 40 After Pilate had said this, he went out to the Jews again and told them, ‘I find no case against him. But you have a custom that I release someone for you at the Passover. Do you want me to release for you the King […]
Daily Devotion for Thursday 24th July 2025
St John 18: 28 – 38 Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate’s headquarters. It was early in the morning. They themselves did not enter the headquarters, so as to avoid ritual defilement and to be able to eat the Passover. So Pilate went out to them and said, ‘What accusation do you bring […]
Daily Devotion for Wednesday 23rd July 2025
Wednesday 23 July 2025 St John 18: 25 – 27 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They asked him, ‘You are not also one of his disciples, are you?’ He denied it and said, ‘I am not.’ One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter […]
Daily Devotion for Tuesday 22nd July 2025
St John 18: 19 – 24 Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. Jesus answered, ‘I have spoken openly to the world; I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all the Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret. Why do you ask me? […]
Daily Devotion for Monday 21st July 2025
St John 18: 15 – 18 Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest, but Peter was standing outside at the gate. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out, spoke […]
Sunday Worship 20 July 2025
Today’s service is led by the Revd Angela Rigby Welcome and Opening Prayer Hello and welcome to our worship service. My name is Rev Angela Rigby. I’m a URC minister, and I’m currently serving churches in Kent. Let us begin with a word of prayer. Let us pray. Holy God, help us to draw close […]
Daily Devotion for Saturday 19th July 2025
St John 18: 1 – 14 After Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with his disciples. So Judas […]
Daily Devotion for Friday 18th July 2025
St John 17: 20 – 26 Jesus said: ‘I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that […]