Today’s service is led by the Revd Andy Braunston Welcome Songs, poems, and writing all have multiple ways of interpreting them. Bono, from the band U2, wrote the song Tomorrow about those who had died in the Troubles in Northern Ireland – the black cars at the side of the road and the knock at […]
URC Daily Devotion 30 November 2024
St Luke 4: 14 – 22 Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country. He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone. When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to […]
URC Daily Devotion 29 November 2024
St Luke 4: 1 – 13 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. The devil said to […]
URC Daily Devotion 28 November 2024
St Luke 3: 23 – 38 Jesus was about thirty years old when he began his work. He was the son (as was thought) of Joseph son of Heli, son of Matthat, son of Levi, son of Melchi, son of Jannai, son of Joseph, son of Mattathias, son of Amos, son of Nahum, son of […]
URC Daily Devotion 27 November 2024
St Luke 3: 21 – 22 Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I […]
URC Daily Devotion 26 November 2024
St Luke 3: 1 – 20 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday 25 November 2024
St Luke 2: 41 – 52 Now every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up as usual for the festival. When the festival was ended and they started to return, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents […]
Sunday Worship 24 November 2024
Today’s service is led by the Revd Nicky Gilbert Introduction Welcome to this service for 24th of November the day for the traditional feast of Christ the King. I am Nicky Gilbert, a non-stipendiary Area Minister in the Wessex Synod on the south coast of England. As we near the season of Advent, we join […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 23 November 2024
Luke 1: 67 – 80 Then his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke this prophecy: ‘Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has looked favourably on his people and redeemed them.He has raised up a mighty saviour for usin the house of his servant David,as he spoke through […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 22 November 2024
St Luke 1: 57 – 66 Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. Her neighbours and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to […]