inspiration in your inbox Thursday, 2 November 2023 Reading 1 Peter 2: 11 – 12 Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday, 1 November 2023
Genesis 17.15-22 God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.” […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday, 31 October 2023
1 Corinthians 13: 1-7, 13 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday, 30 October 2023
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Sunday Worship 29 October 2023
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 29 October The Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood, Saint Petersburg, Russia (Image: Mitya Ivanov | Unsplash) Today’s service is led by the Revd Andy Braunston Welcome Hello and welcome to worship. As Mumford and Sons’ song Lovers Eyes fades into the background we gather to worship […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday, 28 October 2023
Esther 4:14 “For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Reflection The Church’s record at covering abuse up, turning a […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday, 27 October 2023
inspiration in your inbox Friday, 27 October 2023 I’m Still a Christian Despite…the Church’s Racism Biblical Passages Romans 12:4-5 For as in one body we have many members and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. Galatians […]
Worship Notes and Weekly Intercessions for Sunday 29th October
Worship Notes and Weekly Intercessions Dear Friends, Millennia ago the prophet Habakkuk, when faced with war, environmental disaster and consequent famine, sung: Though the fig tree does not blossom, and no fruit is on the vines;though the produce of the olive fails and the fields yield no food;though the flock is cut off from the […]
Daily Devotion Wednesday, 25 October 2023
Wednesday, 25 October 2023 I am a Christian…despite myself Matthew 14: 27-31 Jesus spoke to them at once. “Don’t be afraid, he said, Take courage, I am here!” Then Peter called to him, “Lord, if it’s really you, tell me to come to you, walking on the water.” “Yes, come, “Jesus said. So Peter went […]
Daily Devotion Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Tuesday, 24 October 2023 I am still a Christian despite sexism. Galatians 3: 27-28 As many of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male or female; for you are all one in […]