URC Daily Devotion Saturday 27 August 2022

Acts 8: 4 – 13Now those who were scattered went from place to place, proclaiming the word.  Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah to them.  The crowds with one accord listened eagerly to what was said by Philip, hearing and seeing the signs that he did, for unclean spirits, […]

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Intercessions in Difficult Times

Dear Friends, the announcement today about the rise in gas and electricity prices was both expected and deeply shocking.  We know that unless something radical is done to both assist folk now and fundamentally change how our energy markets work there will be many people going both hungry and cold this winter.   The following prayers […]

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URC Daily Devotion Thursday 25 August 2022

Thursday 25 August 2022    Acts 7: 54 – 60 When they heard these things, they became enraged and ground their teeth at Stephen.  But filled with the Holy Spirit, he gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.  ‘Look,’ he said, ‘I see the […]

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URC Daily Devotion 24 October 2022

Acts 19: 11 – 19 God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that when the handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were brought to the sick, their diseases left them, and the evil spirits came out of them.  Then some itinerant Jewish exorcists tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus over […]

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URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 23 August 2022

Stephen continued:   ‘When Moses was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his relatives, the Israelites.  When he saw one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian. He supposed that his kinsfolk would understand that God through him was rescuing them, […]

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Worship Notes 28th August

Worship Notes Dear Friends, Every week we offer worship to God, bringing our prayers and our pain, our praises and our persistence in many different ways and styles. Our people meet in small and large groups, in church, chapel and community centres, sometimes in fellowship with sisters and brothers from other traditions, sometimes as stand […]

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URC Daily Devotion 20th August 2022

Acts 6 1-7 Now during those days, when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists complained against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.  And the twelve called together the whole community of the disciples and said, ‘It is not right that we should neglect the word […]

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URC Daily Devotion 19th August 2022

 Acts 5: 17 – 42 Then the high priest took action; he and all who were with him (that is, the sect of the Sadducees), being filled with jealousy, arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison. But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors, brought them out, […]

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URC Daily Devotion 18th August 2022

18th August 2022  Acts 5: 12 – 16 Now many signs and wonders were done among the people through the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico. None of the rest dared to join them, but the people held them in high esteem. Yet more than ever believers were added to the Lord, […]

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