Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Ash Wednesday Today’s service is led by The Revd Andy Braunston Call to Worship One: Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming.Many: Yet even now, says the Most High, return to me! One: Return […]
Weekly Intercessions and Worship Notes for Lent 1
Resources for Lent 1 Dear Friends, This week’s Worship Notes for the First Sunday of Lent have been prepared by the Rev’d Dr Elizabeth Welch. They can be found here. All the material for Lent, including for tomorrow, Ash Wednesday, is there too to help you with your (last minute) planning. We’ve also got material […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 20 February 2023 The Rev’d Martin Knight
He came to his home town and began to teach the people in their synagogue, so that they were astounded and said, ‘Where did this man get this wisdom and these deeds of power? Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph […]
Sunday Worship 19 February 2023
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 19 February 2023 Today’s service is led by The Revd Andy Braunston Call to Worship Come as eyewitnesses of God’s majesty! We come and worship. Come and give honour and glory to God in your praise and song.We come and worship. Come into God’s light like a lamp shining in […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 18 February 2023 The Rev’d Nicola Furley-Smith,
‘The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. ‘Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls; on finding one pearl of great value, he went […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 17 February 2023 John Ellis,
He put before them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as […]
URC Daily Devotion 16 February 2023
St Matthew 13: 1 – 23That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the lake. Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: ‘Listen! A sower went […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 15 February 2023
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, ‘Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.’ But he answered them, ‘An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was for three days […]
Worship Notes and Intercessions for Sunday 19th February
Worship Notes and Intercessions for this Sunday Dear Friends, This week’s Worship Notes reflect on the Transfiguration observed in the Revised Common Lectionary on the Sunday before Lent. You can find them here. Later today I will get the Notes for April up which means for those of you planning as far ahead as Easter […]
URC Daily Devotion 13 February 2023
At that time Jesus went through the cornfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. When the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, ‘Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath.’ He said to them, ‘Have you […]