Ruth 3: 1 – 13 Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, ‘My daughter, I need to seek some security for you, so that it may be well with you. Now here is our kinsman Boaz, with whose young women you have been working. See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing-floor. Now wash and […]
URC Daily Devotion 29th July 2022
Ruth 2: 14 – 23 At mealtime Boaz said to her, ‘Come here, and eat some of this bread, and dip your morsel in the sour wine.’ So she sat beside the reapers, and he heaped up for her some parched grain. She ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over. When […]
URC Daily Devotion 28th July 2022
Ruth 2: 1 – 13 Now Naomi had a kinsman on her husband’s side, a prominent rich man, of the family of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz. And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, ‘Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain, behind someone in whose sight I may find […]
URC Daily Devotion 27th July 2022
Ruth 1: 19 – 22 So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them; and the women said, ‘Is this Naomi?’ She said to them, ‘Call me no longer Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt bitterly with me.I […]
URC Daily Devotion 26th July 2022
Ruth 1: 6 – 18 Then she started to return with her daughters-in-law from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the country of Moab that the Lord had had consideration for his people and given them food. So she set out from the place where she had been living, she and her […]
Worship Notes for Sunday 31st July
Worship Notes Dear Friends, Worship is our core activity. Sunday after Sunday we offer praise and worship to Almighty God through the length and breadth of these islands. From humble meeting houses to grand churches built to rival cathedrals, from handfuls of people struggling to bear witness to their community to large churches with a […]
Service for 24th July 2022 The Rev’d Andy Braunston
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 24th July 2022 Opening Music – The Touching Place by John Bell and Graham MauleSung by the Cathedral Singers Introduction Hello and welcome to worship. My name is Andy Braunston and I serve as the URC’s Minister for Digital Worship ensuring we have a variety of […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday 23 July 2022
St John 24 – 25 This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and has written them, and we know that his testimony is true. But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday 22 July 2022
St John 21: 20 – 23 Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; he was the one who had reclined next to Jesus at the supper and had said, ‘Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?’ When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, ‘Lord, what about him?’ […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 21 July 2022
St John 21: 15 – 19 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?’ He said to him, ‘Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my lambs.’ A second time he said to him, ‘Simon son […]