Today’s service is led by the Revd Andy Braunston Welcome Hello and welcome to worship. Today we celebrate the Ascension – which actually fell on Thursday but, like many churches, we observe the festival today. Ascension draws us to the end of the Easter stories where Jesus hands over his work to his friends – […]
URC Daily Devotion 31 May 2025
St John 7: 1 – 9After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him. Now the Jewish festival of Booths was near. So his brothers said to him, ‘Leave here and go to Judea so that your […]
URC Daily Devotion 30 May 20205
St John 6: 52 – 71The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ So Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat […]
Daily Devotion for Thursday 29th May 2025
St John 6: 41 – 51 Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, ‘I am the bread that came down from heaven.’ They were saying, ‘Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, “I have come down from heaven”?’ Jesus […]
Daily Devotion for Wednesday 28th May 2025
St John 6: 35-40 Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. Everything that the Father gives me will come to […]
Daily Devotion for Tuesday 27th May 2025
St John 6: 22 – 34 The next day the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the lake saw that there had been only one boat there. They also saw that Jesus had not got into the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. Then some boats […]
Daily Devotion for Monday 26th May 2025
St John 6: 16 – 21 When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, got into a boat, and started across the lake to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. The lake became rough because a strong wind was blowing. When they had rowed about three […]
Sunday Worship 25 May 2025
Today’s service is led by the Revd Fiona Bennett Welcome & Gathering Hello. My name is Fiona Bennett the minister at Augustine United Church in Edinburgh. I am delighted be with you sharing in your worship this morning. Call to Worship The Risen Christ is amongst usbreathing new vision into our imaginations;breathing new hope into […]
Saturday 24 May 2025
After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick. Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there with his disciples. Now the Passover, the festival of […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 23 May 2025
St John 5: 30 – 47 Jesus said: ‘I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge; and my judgement is just, because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me. ‘If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. There is another […]