Reading 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 10th May 2024
Reading Isaiah 58:3-6 ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you have not seen it?Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?’“Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers. Your fasting ends in quarrelling and strife, and in striking each other […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 9th May 2024
Reading Luke 4: 17-19 He [Jesus] unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to […]
Worship Resources for Ascension
We are a Worshipping People Dear Friends, Ever since our formation – and for hundreds of years before – we’ve been concerned with worship. From 1972 we’ve looked at how to resource worship in a church which has few, if any, set liturgies. We’ve wanted to reflect the contexts we’ve found ourselves in and to […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 7th May 2024
Reading: Exodus 6: 5-6 I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are holding as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. Say therefore to the Israelites, “I am the Lord, and I will free you from the burdens of the Egyptians and deliver you from slavery to them. I will […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 6th May 2024
Mark 5: 1-20 They came to the other side of the lake, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when he had stepped out of the boat, immediately a man out of the tombs with an unclean spirit met him. He lived among the tombs; and no one could restrain him any more, even with […]
Sunday Worship 5 May 2024
Welcome Hello and welcome to worship. With Tina Turner fading away in the background we ponder today what love is and what it has to do with our faith. Our culture, built on the values of the Bible, sees love as a positive virtue but gets confused on what exactly love is. We’ll explore that […]
URC Daily Devotion 4 May 2024
Reading Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. Reflection In Samoa, a profound connection exists between the Samoan people and mother nature. Through the lens of Samoan culture today’s selected verse resonates deeply with the interconnectedness of the Samoan people with our […]
URC Daily Devotion 3 May 2024
Friday 3rd May 2024 Matthew 16: 24 – 26 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find […]
URC Daily Devotion 2 May 2024
Joel 1:6-7, 10-12, 2:25b A people have come up against my country,a mighty and innumerable people;their teeth are the teeth of a lionand he has the fangs of a lioness.He hath made my vineyard a desolationand he has torn my fig tree to pieces;he peeled them to the ground and felled them,and their branches are […]