Journeying Through Lenten Sundays Dear Friends, Just a note to let you know about the resources we have for worship for next Sunday. The Rev’d Paul Robinson has prepared this week’s Worship Notes. Paul explores the set passage from Mark’s Gospel which marks the focusing on the “so what” response to the call of Jesus. […]
Sunday Worship 18 February 2024
Today’s service is led by the Revd Dr Susan Durber Introduction Hello! I am Susan Durber, a retired United Reformed Church minister, living in Pembrokeshire. I also serve as the World Council of Churches President from Europe. Among Christians in the West, this Sunday is the first in the season of Lent. While, for many […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday, 17 February 2024
inspiration in your inbox Saturday, 17 February 2024 St Mark 8: 22 – 30They came to Bethsaida. Some people brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village; and when he had put saliva on his eyes […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday, 16 February 2024
inspiration in your inbox Friday, 16 February 2024 St Mark 8: 14 – 29Now the disciples had forgotten to bring any bread; and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. And he cautioned them, saying, ‘Watch out—beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.’ They said to one […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday, 15 February 2024
inspiration in your inbox Thursday, 15 February 2024 St Mark 8: 1 – 13In those days when there was again a great crowd without anything to eat, he called his disciples and said to them, ‘I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to […]
A Feast for Lent
A Feast for Lent Dear Friends, Happy Ash Wednesday! Today the Church starts its long journey to Calvary where we walk with Jesus to the Cross – and beyond! As ever we have an array of resources to help us as we worship. This week’s Worship Notes have been prepared by the Revd Dr Susan […]
URC Daily Devotion 13 February 2024
St Mark 7: 24 – 29 From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she […]
URC Daily Devotion 12 February 2024
Mark 7: 1 – 22 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, […]
Sunday Worship 11 February 2024
Today’s service is led by the Revd John Grundy Welcome Good morning. My name is John Grundy and I am the Minister of St Andrew’s Brockley and St Michael’s New Cross. Our two churches here are in fast changing diverse communities in the London Borough of Lewisham. In many ways, our church families are very […]
URC Daily Devotion 10 February 2024
Saturday, 10 February 2024 St Mark 6: 53 – 56 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored the boat. When they got out of the boat, people at once recognized him, and rushed about that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever they heard […]