Ephesians 4: 6-8, 11-16 (Good News Translation)Each one of us has received a special gift in proportion to what Christ has given. As the scripture says: “When he went up to the very heights, he took many captives with him; he gave gifts to people.” It was he who “gave gifts to people”; he appointed […]
URC Daily Devotion 16 September 2024
Isaiah 6:6-8Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. The seraph touched my mouth with it and said, “Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out.” Then I heard the […]
URC Daily Devotion 15 September 2024
Psalm 48The Lord is great and worthy to be praisedin the city of our God.His holy mountain rises in beauty,the joy of all the earth. Mount Zion, true pole of the earth,the Great King’s city!God, in the midst of its citadels,has shown himself its stronghold. For the kings assembled together,together they advanced.They saw; at once […]
URC Daily Devotion 13 September 2024
Daniel 12: 5 – 13 Then I, Daniel, looked, and two others appeared, one standing on this bank of the stream and one on the other. One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was upstream, ‘How long shall it be until the end of these wonders?’ The man clothed in linen, […]
Sunday Intercessions
Sunday Intercessions Dear Friends, I have been working in London and now in Glasgow this week so have had limited access to emails. The Revd Ruth Watson has kindly written intercessions for this coming Sunday and I m pleased to send them out, below. Remember Worship Notes are available for every week until the end […]
Daily Devotion for Wednesday 11th September 2024
Daniel 11 As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to support and strengthen him. ‘Now I will announce the truth to you. Three more kings shall arise in Persia. The fourth shall be far richer than all of them, and when he has become strong through his riches, […]
Tuesday, 10 September 2024 Lorraine Webb,
Daniel 10 In the third year of King Cyrus of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. The word was true, and it concerned a great conflict. He understood the word, having received understanding in the vision. At that time I, Daniel, had been mourning for three weeks. I had eaten […]
Monday, 9 September 2024 The Revd Neil Thorogood,
Daniel 9: 20 – 27 While I was speaking, and was praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God on behalf of the holy mountain of my God — while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen […]
Sunday Worship 8 September 2024
Today’s service is led by the Revd Martin Knight Welcome My friends, you are warmly welcome to this service of worship, as we sing and pray and engage with God’s word, and are embraced as bread and wine are shared. My name is Martin Knight and in June, I moved, to serve as […]
URC Daily Devotion 7 September 2024
Daniel 9: 1 – 19 In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, by birth a Mede, who became king over the realm of the Chaldeans— in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the Lord to the prophet […]