Today’s service is led by the Revd Andy Braunston Welcome We explore, in worship today, themes of light shining in the darkness, mysterious visitors bringing the Holy Family even more mysterious gifts, and consider how a people struggling in exile and defeat were enlightened with God’s glorious light. My name is Andy Braunston and I […]
URC Daily Devotion for 4th January 2025
St Luke 8: 4 – 15 When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to Jesus, he said in a parable: ‘A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell on the path and was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. […]
URC Daily Devotion 3rd January 2025
St Luke 8: 1 – 3 Soon afterwards he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him, as well as some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, […]
URC Daily Devotion 2nd January 2025
St Luke 7: 36 – 50 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of […]
URC Daily Devotion 1st January 2025
St Luke 7: 18 – 35 The disciples of John reported all these things to Jesus. So John summoned two of his disciples and sent them to the Lord to ask, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?’ When the men had come to him, they said, […]
URC Daily Devotion 31 December 2024
St Luke 7: 11 – 17 Soon afterwards Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him. As he approached the gate of the town, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow; and with […]
URC Daily Devotion 30 December 2024
inspiration in your inbox 30 December 2024 We return to where we broke off the story before Christmas. St Luke 7: 1 – 10 After Jesus had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. A centurion there had a slave whom he valued highly, and who was ill and […]
Sunday Worship 29 December 2024
Today’s service is led by the Revd Phil Nevard Introduction Welcome in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit! I’m Rev’d Phil Nevard, a URC minister in South Cambridgeshire. The Sunday immediately after Christmas can sometimes feel a bit “after the Lord Mayor’s show. But however much we are flagging, God isn’t; […]
URC Daily Devotion 28 December 2024
St Luke 2: 39 – 40 When they had finished everything required by the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favour of God was upon him. Reflection There’s a moment near the end of the 2009 […]
URC Daily Devotion 27 December 2024
St Luke 2: 36 – 38 There was also a prophet, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, having lived with her husband for seven years after her marriage, then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshipped there […]