Saturday 1st August 2020 Basis of Union 18 Basis The United Reformed Church, under the authority of Holy Scripture and in corporate responsibility to Jesus Christ its ever living head, acknowledges its duty to be open at all times to the leading of the Holy Spirit and therefore affirms its right to make such new […]
Gone Camping
Gone Camping…. Dear Friends, it’s always a pleasure to hear from you but, until the end of August, I will be away! We’re catching up on deferred annual leave and have taken ourselves off to far flung northern isles. Now, of course, this doesn’t mean the Daily Devotions will stop. They are all queued up […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 30th July 2020 Basis of Union 16
Thursday 30th July 2020 Basis of Union 16 St Matthew 26:26-28 While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 29th July 2020 Basis of Union 15
Wednesday 29th July 2020 Basis of Union 15 St John 3.22-29 After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he spent some time there with them and baptised. John also was baptising at Aenon near Salim because water was abundant there; and people kept coming and were being baptised— John, of […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 28th July 2020 Basis of Union 14
Tuesday 28th July 2020 Basis 14 Ephesians 4.1-6 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 27th July 2020 Basis of Union 13
Monday 27th July 2020 Basis of Union 13 St Luke 4:16-21 When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll […]
Worship for Sunday 26th July 2020
Sunday Worship from the URC’s Daily Devotions26th July 2020 The Rev’d Ruth Whitehead Introduction Welcome to this act of worship. My name is Ruth Whitehead. I am a minister of the United Reformed Church, currently serving as Moderator of the South Western Synod. The Synod stretches from Cornwall up beyond Swindon, and I live more […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 25th July 2020 Basis of Union 12
Saturday 25th July 2020 Basis of Union 12 Basis The United Reformed Church confesses the faith of the Church catholic in one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It acknowledges that the life of faith to which it is called is a gift of the Holy Spirit continually received in Word and Sacrament and in […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 24th July 2020 Basis of Union 11
Friday 24th July 2020 Basis of Union 11 Acts 2: 42-47 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. Awe came upon everyone, because many wonders and signs were being done by the apostles. All who believed were together and had all things in common; they […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 23rd July 2020 Basis of Union 10
Thursday 23rd July 2020 Basis of Union 10 St Matthew 18.15-20 ‘If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one. But if you are not listened to, take one or two […]