Today’s service is led by the Revd Walt Johnson Welcome Hello, and welcome to our Service of the Word on Sunday 28 December 2025. My name is Walt Johnson. I serve as a non-stipendiary Minister of Word and Sacraments in the Bolton and Salford Missional Partnership in the North-Western Synod of the URC. In the […]
Saturday 27th December 2025
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light […]
Friday 26th December 2025
Friday, 26 December 2025 St Luke 2: 15 – 20 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.’ So they went with haste and found […]
Christmas Day Service 2025
Today’s service is led by the Revd Packiaraj Asirvatham Introduction My name is Packiaraj Asirvatham, I’m serving as minister of South and East Enfield Pastorate in Thames North Synod. I’m very happy to celebrate Christmas Day with you all and it’s my joy to be part of this digital worship initiative led by the Revd Andy […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday, 24 December 2025
St Luke 2: 1 – 7 In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. All went to their own towns to be registered. Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday, 23 December 2025
St Matthew 1: 18 – 25 Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her […]
URC Daily Devotions Monday, 22 December 2025
We turn to the various narratives of the Christmas and Epiphany season over the next two weeks. St Luke 1: 26 – 38 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house […]
Sunday Worship 21 December 2025
Today’s service is led by the Revd Mark Rodgers Welcome Good day to you all, on this, the fourth Sunday of Advent. Is the anticipation building where you are? Are you ready yet, for Christ’s arrival into the world? Well, the wait is nearly over, but before it is, let us have at least one […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 20th December 2025
St Matthew 12: 1 – 21 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.” He answered, “Haven’t […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 19th December 2025
St Matthew 11: 25 – 30 At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do. “All things have been committed to me […]