Today’s service is led by the Revd Andy Braunston Welcome Hello and welcome to worship. My name is Andy Braunston, and I am the URC’s Minister for Digital Worship. Today we mark both the end of the Season of Creation and St Francis of Assisi whose feast day fell on Friday through Jesus’ question “do […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 5th October 2024
Mark 10.45 The Son of Man came not to be serve but to serve… Philippians 2:5 Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus… Reflection Bonhoeffer did a great deal of writing during his two years in prison, much of it published as ‘Letters and Papers from Prison’. It includes […]
URC Daily Devotion 4 October 2024
4 October 2024 Bonhoeffer 5 The Imitation of Christ Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your minds… Galatians 4:19 My little children for whom I am again in the pain of childbirth until Christ is formed in you… Reflection Christian discipleship is sometimes spoken of in terms […]
URC Daily Devotion 3 October 2024
Bonhoeffer 4 Wisdom James 3:13-17 Who is wise and understanding among you? Show by your good life that your works are done with gentleness born of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be boastful and false to the truth. Such wisdom does not come down from […]
Daily Devotion 2 October 2024
James 3:5b,6, 7-10 How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! And the tongue is a fire…every species of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species, but no one can tame the tongue—a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With […]
URC Daily Devotion 1 October 2024
Tuesday, 1 October 2024Bonhoeffer 2 – Gratitude 1 Thessalonians 5: 16-17 Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ for you. Reflection From 1935-37 Bonhoeffer led an illegal seminary, training pastors of the Confessing Church, which opposed Hitler. His short book entitled ‘Life Together’ […]
Monday 30th September 2024 Reverend John Matthews
St Mark 8:31-38 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke […]
Sunday 29th September 2024 Ann Barton
The God of gods, the Lord,has spoken and summoned the earth,from the rising of the sun to its setting.Out of Zion’s perfect beauty he shines. (Our God comes, he keeps silence no longer.) Before him fire devours,around him tempest rages.He calls on the heavens and the earthto witness his judgement of his people. “Summon […]
Daily Devotion for Saturday 28th September 2024
Romans 8:12-17 “Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. For those who are led by […]
Daily Devotion for Thursday 26th September 2024
inspiration in your inbox Thursday 26 September 2024 Witness through Suffering Romans 5: 3-5 “…..but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy […]