As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, ‘If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. Indeed, the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up ramparts around you and surround […]
Sunday Worship 23 March 2025
Today’s service is led by the Revd Dr Lance Stone Welcome Hello and welcome to our service of worship. My name is Lance Stone. I’m a retired United Reformed Church minister. I’ve served the URC in London and in Cambridge. I’ve also served the Church of Scotland in Aberdeen and Amsterdam. Let us begin with […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 22 March 2025
St Luke 19: 28 – 40 After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, saying, ‘Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 21 March 2025
St Luke 19: 11 – 27 As they were listening to this, Jesus went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. So he said, ‘A nobleman went to a distant country to get royal power for himself and then […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 20 March 2025
St Luke 19: 1 – 10 He entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax-collector and was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. So he ran ahead […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 19th March 2025
St Luke 18: 35 – 42 As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. When he heard a crowd going by, he asked what was happening. They told him, ‘Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.’ Then he shouted, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!’ Those who were in […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 18th March 2025
St Luke 18: 31 – 34 Then Jesus took the twelve aside and said to them, ‘See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished. For he will be handed over to the Gentiles; and he will be mocked and insulted […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 17th March 2025
St Luke 18: 18-30 A certain ruler asked him, ‘Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: “You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall […]
Sunday Worship 16 March 2025
Today’s service is led by the Revd Fiona Bennett Welcome & Gathering Hello! It is good to be sharing worship with you today on this second Sunday in Lent. I am Fiona Bennett a URC minister based at Augustine United URC in Edinburgh We gather together to worship God… Call to worship We are on […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 15 March 2025
People were bringing even infants to Jesus that he might touch them; and when the disciples saw it, they sternly ordered them not to do it. But Jesus called for them and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom […]