A Week on Rest Dear Friends, I hope you found the last two weeks’ looking at difficult Biblical passages interesting and useful in your own thinking about what we might mean when we say the Bible contains the Word of God. Thank you to everyone who has emailed me with their thoughts; it’s lovely to […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday, 24 June 2023
St John 1:1 – 4, 14 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, […]
URC Daily Devotion 23rd June 2023
1 Corinthians 14: 26 – 40 What should be done then, my friends? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up. If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and […]
URC Daily Devotion 22nd June 2023
inspiration in your inbox 22nd June 2023 The Christian Household? Ephesians 5: 21 – 6: Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, […]
URC Daily Devotion 21st June 2023
I Kings 18: When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, ‘Is it you, you troubler of Israel?’ He answered, ‘I have not troubled Israel; but you have, and your father’s house, because you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals. Now therefore have all Israel assemble for me at Mount […]
Worship Notes and Intercessions for 25th June
Resources for Worship Dear Friends, Worship is at the heart of our life as God’s people. Whatever else we do, worship is at the core as it is through meeting God – in the hymns and the music, the movement and the silence, the Word and the words, in friend and stranger as well as […]
URC Daily Devotion 19 June 2023
Judges 11: 30 – 40And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, and said, ‘If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, then whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious from the Ammonites, shall be the Lord’s, to be offered up by me as a […]
Sunday Worship 18 June 2023
Today’s service is led by the Revd Neil Thorogood Call to Worship As we come together in worship,we give thanks for this day that you have made.As we share in scripture and silence, song and stillness, prayer and preaching,be present with us wherever we find ourselves.Receive all that we offer. Renew all that we are.Unite us in […]
URC Daily Devotion 17 June 2023
inspiration in your inbox Saturday, 17 June 2023 Jael and her Tentpeg Judges 4: 17 – 24Now Sisera had fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between King Jabin of Hazor and the clan of Heber the Kenite. Jael came out to meet Sisera, […]
URC Daily Devotion 16 June 2023
Friday, 16 June 2023 Deborah, Judge of Israel Judges 4: 1 – 16The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, after Ehud died. So the Lord sold them into the hand of King Jabin of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in […]