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Sunday Worship 3rd August 2025
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 3 August 2025 Photo Credit Jp Valery | Unsplash.com Today’s service is led by the Revd Andy Braunston Welcome I’ve never had the courage to respond “everything” when asked how much money someone left after they died; though I was once tempted when some long-lost relatives, who’d ignored the […]
URC Daily Devotion for 2-08-2025
St John 20: 1 – 10 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said […]
URC Daily Devotion for 1-08-2025
St John 19: 38 – 42 After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission; so he came and removed his body. Nicodemus, who had at […]
Daily Devotion for Thursday 31st July 2025
St John 19: 31 – 37 Since it was the day of Preparation, the Jews did not want the bodies left on the cross during the sabbath, especially because that sabbath was a day of great solemnity. So they asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and the bodies removed. Then […]
Daily Devotion for Wednesday 30th July 2025
St John 19: 26 – 30 Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, ‘Woman, here is your son.’ Then he said […]
Daily Devotion for Tuesday 29th July 2025
St John 19: 16 – 25 So they took Jesus; and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus between them. Pilate also had an […]
Daily Devotion for Monday 28th July 2025
St John 19: 12 – 16 From then on Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews cried out, ‘If you release this man, you are no friend of the emperor. Everyone who claims to be a king sets himself against the emperor.’ When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat on […]
Sunday Worship 27 July 2025
Today’s service is led by the Revd Jessica Ashcroft-Townsley Introduction Grace and peace from our Lord Jesus Christ and welcome to worship on this Seventh Sunday After Pentecost. I am the Revd Jessica Ashcroft-Townsley, minister to Kingsteignton URC and companion minister to the Somerset Group of churches of the South Western Synod of the United Reformed […]
Daily Devotion for Saturday 26th July 2025
St John 19: 1 – 11 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they dressed him in a purple robe. They kept coming up to him, saying, ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’ and striking him on the face. Pilate […]