Worship for Palm Sunday On Sunday we mark Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem where excited crowds, seeing ancient prophecy’s fulfilment, acclaimed him as king. The crowds’ reaction was too much for the authorities who realised they had to undermine and neutralise Jesus in case he swept them away and provoked the might of Rome. We know, […]
Sunday 26 March 2023
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 26 March 2023 Today’s service is led by the Revd Sue McCoan Call to Worship I wait for the Lord, my soul waits and in his word I hope. My soul waits for the Lord – more than those who watch for the morning. More than those who watch for […]
URC Daily Devotion 25th March 2023
When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?’ He said to him, ‘“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, […]
URC Daily Devotion 24th March 2023
The same day some Sadducees came to him, saying there is no resurrection; and they asked him a question, saying, ‘Teacher, Moses said, “If a man dies childless, his brother shall marry the widow, and raise up children for his brother.” Now there were seven brothers among us; the first married, and died childless, leaving the […]
URC Daily Devotion 23rd March 2023
23rd March 2023Matthew 22: 15 – 22 Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said. So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, ‘Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and teach the way of God in accordance with truth, and show deference to no one; […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 22 March 2023
inspiration in your inbox Wednesday 22 March 2023 St Matthew 22: 1 – 14 Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying: ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 21 March 2023
inspiration in your inbox Tuesday 21 March 2023 St Matthew 21: 33 – 46‘Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watch-tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. When the harvest […]
Notes and Intercessions for Lent 5 – 26th March
Resources for Lent 5 Dear Friends, I don’t know about you but I can’t quite believe we’re so far through Lent already. The radio told me that today is the first day of Spring and the snow we had last week in Orkney has cleared, the daffodils are out, and the sun is shining so […]
Sunday Worship 19 March 2023
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 19 March 2023 Today’s service is led by the Revd Dr Alex Clare-Young Sentences from Psalm 23 God is my shepherd, I shall not want.They enable me to lie down in green pastures; they guide me beside still waters;God restores my soul, guiding me in directions that honour their name.Even though […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 18 March 2023
inspiration in your inbox Saturday 18 March 2023 St Matthew 21: 23 – 27When he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, ‘By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?’ Jesus said to them, […]