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 […]
Daily Devotion Monday, 23 October 2023
Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, ‘Get up and go towards the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ (This is a wilderness road.) So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of […]
Sunday Worship 22 October 2023
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 22 October 2023 (Image: Thomas K | Pexels) Today’s service is led by the Revd Fiona Bennett Welcome & Call to Worship Hello I am Fiona Bennett. I am the minister of Augustine United Church in Edinburgh and the Immediate Past Moderator of the URC GA. I am […]
URC Daily Devotion 21 October 2023
Galatians 3:27-29 “As many of you as 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 and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are […]
URC Daily Devotion 20 October 2023
Matthew 16:13-20 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that the Son of Man is?’ And they said, ‘Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ He said to them, ‘But who do you say […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 19th October 2023
I am still a Christian…despite transphobia and ableism 1 Corinthians 12: 12-26For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 18th October 2023
I am still a Christian…despite the Church cosying up to power 1 Samuel 8 1-21 When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel. The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beer-sheba. Yet his sons did not follow in his ways, […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 17th October 2023
Tuesday 17th October 2023 I’m a Christian Despite…Church homophobia Romans 14:1-4;10-12 Welcome those who are weak in faith, but not for the purpose of quarrelling over opinions. Some believe in eating anything, while the weak eat only vegetables. Those who eat must not despise those who abstain, and those who abstain must not pass judgement […]
URC Daily Devotion 16 October 2023
1 Peter 2: 9-17But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people;once you had not […]
Sunday Worship 15 October 2023
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 15 October 2023 Today’s service is led by the Revd Wayne Hawkins Call to Worship No matter your name you have a place here. Every name equally valuable. Every name holding the sacred. No name is greater and no name is less important. Every name is spoken and heard and the […]