Leanabh an àigh Leanabh is a Gaelic hymn rendered Child in the Manger in its English translation by Lachlan MacBean to fit the tune Bunessan (Morning has broken). The Gaelic was written by Màiri Dhòmhnallach, well known as a poet and singer, from the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides. Born in 1817 at […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 27 December 2022
“Adam lay ybounden”, originally titled Adam lay i-bowndyn, is a 15th-century English Christian text which uses a variety of languages and linguistic puns. It is of unknown authorship and relates the Biblical events of Genesis, Chapter 3 on the Fall of Humanity. Originally a song text, no contemporary musical settings survive, although there are many […]
URC Daily Devotion 26 December 2022
Of the Father’s love begotten is a doctrinal hymn based on the Latin poem “Corde natus” by the Roman poet Aurelius Prudentius. The ancient poem was translated and paired with a mediaeval plainchant melody “Divinum mysterium” to which it is most often sung today. You can hear this carol herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOF9JLJkPis Of the Father’s love begotten,Ere […]
Christmas Day Worship 2022
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Christmas Day Today’s service is led by The Revd Alex Clare-Young Scripture Sentences Psalm 96 & Call To Worship O sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth. Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and […]
Christmas Eve Worship 2022
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Christmas Eve Today’s service is led by The Revd Andy Braunston Call to Worship Good evening and welcome to worship on this most holiest of nights when, with Christians around the world we gather in the dark to welcome the light. We listen again, in music and words, to […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 23rd December 2022
Friday 23rd December 2022 O Emmanuel (O With Us is God) O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver,the hope of the nations and their Saviour:Come and save us, O Lord our God. “Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel” (Isaiah 7:14)“We have our hope set […]
URC Daily Devotion 22nd December 2022
inspiration in your inbox 22nd December 2022 O Rex Gentium (O King of the Nations) O King of the nations, and their desire,the cornerstone making both one:Come and save the human race,which you fashioned from clay. “Who would not fear you, O king of the nations?” (Jer 10:7) “See, I am laying in Zion a […]
URC Daily Devotion 21st December 2022
21st December 2022 O Oriens (O Dayspring) O Morning Star,splendour of light eternal and sun of righteousness:Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death. “who visits us like the dawn from on high” (Luke 1:78) “to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death” […]
URC Daily Devotion 20th December 2022
O Key of David and sceptre of the House of Israel;you open and no one can shut;you shut and no one can open:Come and lead the prisoners from the prison house,those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death. “I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David” (“Isaiah 22:22) […]
URC Daily Devotion 19th December 2022
O Root of Jesse,standing as a sign among the peoples;before you kings will shut their mouths,to you the nations will make their prayer:Come and deliver us, and delay no longer. “the Root of Jesse shall stand as a signal to the peoples” (Isaiah 11:10)“kings shall shut their mouths because of him” (Isaiah 52:15)“him the Gentiles […]