St John 1: 29 – 34 The next day he saw Jesus coming towards him and declared, ‘Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said, “After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me because he was before me.” I myself […]
URC Daily Devotion 8th May 2025
St John 1: 19-28 This is the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, ‘Who are you?’ He confessed and did not deny it, but confessed, ‘I am not the Messiah.’ And they asked him, ‘What then? Are you Elijah?’ He said, ‘I am not.’ ‘Are […]
URC Daily Devotion 7th May 2025
And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth. (John testified to him and cried out, ‘This was he of whom I said, “He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before […]
URC Daily Devotion 6 May 2025
St John 1: 6 -13 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming […]
URC Daily Devotion 5 May 2025
John 1: 1 – 5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and […]
Sunday Worship 4 May 2025
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 […]
Daily Devotion for Saturday 3rd May 2025
Icon of The ResurrectionIsaac Fanous (1919 – 2007) Information The Coptic Orthodox Church is an Oriental Orthodox church based in Egypt. Copts believe their church to have been established by Mark during the middle of the first century. Due to disputes concerning the nature of Christ, the Oriental Orthodox and the Eastern Orthodox were in […]
Daily Devotion for Friday 2nd May 2025
Michael Smither, ‘Doubting Thomas’ (c.1970), St Joseph’s Church, Ngāmotu New PlymouthImage: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021 Information Michael Smither was not actually commissioned to create this mural, but in his view the new, well-lit, walls of the recently completed St Joseph’s “cried out for murals.” His first charcoal sketch of the work […]
Daily Devotion for Thursday 1st May 2025
inspiration in your inbox Thursday 1 May 2025 public domainWilliam Blake, ‘Mary Magdalen at the Sepulchre’ | Information This is one of approximately eighty watercolour illustrations to the Bible produced by William Blake for his loyal patron Thomas Butts between 1800 and about 1805. It is not clear how these designs originally functioned as illustrations: […]
Daily Devotion for Wednesday 30th April 2025
John 21© Ally Barrett (www.reverendally.org) and used by permission. Information Ally Barrett is currently a chaplain working in higher education, having spent eleven years in parish ministry, four years teaching practical theology to trainee ministers, and a year as a children’s minister. She is also an artist. This piece is one of several paintings she […]