Wednesday, 4 October 2023 Job – a happy ending BUT no restoration of what is lost. The Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi Job 42: 10 And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then there […]
Daily Devotion Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Jeremiah 12:4 How long will the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither?For the wickedness of those who live in it the animals and the birds are swept away,and because people said, ‘[God] is blind to our ways.’ 1 John 4:20 Those who say, “I love God,” and hate their brothers or sisters, […]
Daily Devotion Monday 2nd October 2023
Genesis 3: 17 – 19 To Adam [God] said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It […]
Sunday Worship 1 October 2023
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 1 October 2023 Today’s service is led by the Revd Nicola Furley-Smith Call to Worship The Psalmist says: teach me your ways and make them known to me. Teach me to live according to your truth – teach it to me – because you are my God who saves […]
URC Daily Devotion 30 September 2023
Revelation 18 After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority; and the earth was made bright with his splendour. He called out with a mighty voice, ‘Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! It has become a dwelling-place of demons,a haunt of every foul spirit, a haunt of every foul bird, a haunt of […]
URC Daily Devotion 29 September 2023
Matthew 25.14-30 For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. The one who had received the five talents went off at […]
Worship Notes and Intercessions for Sunday
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 […]
URC Daily Devotion 27 September 2023
Deuteronomy 20.10-20 When you draw near to a town to fight against it, offer it terms of peace. If it accepts your terms of peace and surrenders to you, then all the people in it shall serve you in forced labour. If it does not submit to you peacefully, but makes war against you, then […]
URC Daily Devotion 26 September 2023
Genesis 9.18-29 The sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan. These three were the sons of Noah; and from these the whole earth was peopled. Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard. He drank some […]
URC Daily Devotion 25 September 2023
Genesis 17.1-8 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, ‘I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless. And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will make you exceedingly numerous.’ Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him, ‘As […]