Worship Notes Dear Friends, Each week we gather in church and chapel, community centre or around a screen to worship. In worship we find God – in the music and silence, in the word read and proclaimed, in bread and wine and in each other. Faithfully, week after week, ministers, elders, and lay preachers lead […]
URC Daily Devotion Remembrance Sunday Worship 13 November
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Remembrance Sunday 13 November 2022 This service begins with a Remembrance introduction, two-minute silence and prayer. You may wish to start the podcast close to 11am or skip back to this section during your morning worship. Today’s service is led by The Revd Andy Braunston. Rite of Remembrance We meet […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 12th November 2022
Saturday 12 November 2022 Acts 26: 1 – 11 Agrippa said to Paul, ‘You have permission to speak for yourself.’ Then Paul stretched out his hand and began to defend himself: ‘I consider myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, I am to make my defence today against all the accusations of the […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 11th November 2022
Friday 11 November 2022 Acts 25: 23 – 27 So on the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and they entered the audience hall with the military tribunes and the prominent men of the city. Then Festus gave the order and Paul was brought in. And Festus said, ‘King Agrippa and all […]
URC Daily Devotion 10th November 2022
Acts 25: 13 – 22 After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to welcome Festus. Since they were staying there for several days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, ‘There is a man here who was left in prison by Felix. When I was in Jerusalem, the chief […]
Weekly Intercessions for Remembrance Sunday
Weekly Intercessions for Remembrance Sunday Dear Friends, As you know each week different ministers prepare intercessions, primarily, for use in Sunday worship. Many people find them useful for personal prayer and for prayer in small groups or Elders’ meetings. We try to have a resonance with the readings, and any theme, for the Sunday. This […]
URC Daily Devotion 8th November 2022
Acts 24: 10 – 27 When the governor motioned to him to speak, Paul replied: ‘I cheerfully make my defence, knowing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation. As you can find out, it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem. They did […]
Worship Notes for Remembrance Sunday
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 […]
URC Daily Devotion Sunday Worship 6th November
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 4 November 2022 Today’s service is led by The Revd Fiona Bennett The Season of Remembrance Introduction Good morning and welcome to the URC’s Sunday Service with Daily Devotions. I am Fiona Bennett, minister of Augustine United URC in Edinburgh and currently also service as the URC’s Moderator […]
URC Daily Devotion 5 November 2022
Then he summoned two of the centurions and said, ‘Get ready to leave by nine o’clock tonight for Caesarea with two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen. Also provide mounts for Paul to ride, and take him safely to Felix the governor.’ He wrote a letter to this effect: ‘Claudius Lysias to his […]