Monday, 1 January 2024 If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation 2 Corinthians 5: 16 – 19 From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. So if […]
Behold, I Make All Things New!
Happy New Year Dear Friends, I hope that the reflections on the Christmas story over the last couple of weeks, and the O Antiphons before that were helpful as we celebrated Christmas. Now, hovering on the edge of a New Year we have our hopes and fears for the year ahead to ponder. Elections in […]
URC Daily Devotion 30 December 2023
Philippians 2: 4 – 11Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited,but emptied […]
URC Daily Devotion 29 December 2023
St Matthew 2: 19 – 23When Herod died, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, ‘Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.’ Then Joseph got up, took the […]
URC Daily Devotion 28 December 2023
inspiration in your inbox Thursday 28 December 2023 St Matthew 2: 13 – 18Now after they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search […]
URC Daily Devotion 27 December 2023
St Matthew 2: 1 – 12 In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, ‘Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him […]
URC Daily Devotion 26 December 2023
John 1: 1 – 18 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 […]
Christmas Morning Service 2023 from the United Reformed Church
Today’s service is led by the Revd Susan Durber Call to Worship A boy has been born for us; a child has been given to us.Once we were no people; now we are God’s people.Once we walked in darkness; now we have seen a great light. Hymn See Amid the Winter’s SnowEdward Caswall […]
Midnight Communion Service 24th December 2023
Tonight’s service is led by the Revd Andy Braunston Call to Worship O Come, O Come Emmanuel, and redeem us – held captive to the pressures and ideologies of our age. O Come, O Come Emmanuel! O Come, O Come, Wisdom from on high, teach us Your ways, that we may turn away from the […]
Saturday, 23 December 2023 The Rev’d Samuel Silungwe,
Saturday, 23 December 2023O Emmanuel (O God With Us) O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver,the hope of the nations and their Saviour:Come and save us, O Lord our God. Isaiah 7: 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall […]