An Eco Advent Calendar Dear Friends, Happy Advent! URC Minister, David Coleman, is chaplain to Eco Congregations Scotland and has co-ordinated a wide range of people to write short Advent video reflections. They start today and can be seen here https://www.ecocongregationscotland.org/advent-calendar-2022/ and continue all the way to Christmas. They are well worth a view as […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 26 November 2022
It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and settled near a certain Adullamite whose name was Hirah. There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; he married her and went in to her. She conceived and bore a son; and he named him Er. Again […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 25 November 2022
An account of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and […]
Women in the Messianic Line
Women in the Messianic Line Dear Friends, I hope our long read through Acts has been interesting – we don’t often read the whole book through and only some of it appears in the regular cycle of readings we hear on Sundays. To start off our Advent reflections we’re going to be looking at the […]
Weekly Intercessions for the First Sunday of Advent
Weekly Intercessions for the First Sunday of Advent Dear Friends, the Rev’d Jacky Embrey has prepared this week’s intercessions which may be useful for public worship, private prayer or as a focus for small groups. You can download them here. With every good wish Andy The Rev’d Andy BraunstonMinister for Digital Worship
URC Daily Devotion 22 November 2022
Three months later we set sail on a ship that had wintered at the island, an Alexandrian ship with the Twin Brothers as its figurehead. We put in at Syracuse and stayed there for three days; then we weighed anchor and came to Rhegium. After one day there a south wind sprang up, and on […]
Worship Notes for the First Sunday of Advent
Worship Notes Dear Friends, Every week we offer worship to God, bringing our prayers and our pain, our praises and our persistence in many different ways and styles. Our people meet in small and large groups, in church, chapel and community centres, sometimes in fellowship with sisters and brothers from other traditions, sometimes as stand […]
URC Daily Devotion Sunday Worship 20 November
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 20 November 2022 Today’s service is led by The Revd Elizabeth Gray-King Worship for Safeguarding Sunday Introduction Welcome to worship from the United Reformed Church. I’m Elizabeth Gray-King, URC Minister and visual theologian. I work as the Synod Pastor for North Western Synod part of my working life and […]
URC Daily Devotion 19 November 2022
In the morning they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, on which they planned to run the ship ashore, if they could. So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea. At the same time they loosened the ropes that tied the steering-oars; then hoisting […]
URC Daily Devotion 18th November 2022
inspiration in your inbox 18th November 2022 Acts 27: 13 – 38 When a moderate south wind began to blow, they thought they could achieve their purpose; so they weighed anchor and began to sail past Crete, close to the shore. But soon a violent wind, called the northeaster, rushed down from Crete. Since […]