Digital Content Assistant Dear Friends, When General Assembly created my new role as Minister for Digital Worship it also agreed to the creation of a support role which has been entitled Digital Content Assistant. This post has now been advertised here. This, Church House based role (which after the probationary period can be hybrid or […]
URC Daily Devotion 7th March 2022
St Luke 13: 10 – 21Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and […]
URC Daily Devotions Sunday Service for 6th March 2022 – The Revd. Dr Michael Hopkins
Daily Devotions from the URCService for Sunday 6th March 2022The First Sunday of Lent Picture credit: Andra C Taylor Jr/Unsplash The Rev’d Dr Michael Hopkins Introduction Good morning and welcome to worship today. My name is Michael Hopkins, and our service today comes to you from the Spire Church in Farnham, which is a Methodist and […]
URC Daily Devotion 5th March 2022
St Luke 13: 1-9 At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asked them, ‘Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? No, I tell you; but unless you […]
URC Daily Devotion 4 March 2022
St Luke 12: 49 – 59 ‘I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed! Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, […]
URC Daily Devotion 3 March 2022
St Luke 12: 35 – 48 ‘Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks. Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert […]
500 Years of Lenten Sausages…
Why I shall be eating a sausage for Ash Wednesday 2022,and why you should too! Eating a sausage on Ash Wednesday 2022 marks the 500th anniversary of a very important event, and sausage is far more appropriate than an act of piety at home or in church! The Reformation began in Zurich on Ash Wednesday […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 1 March 2022
Meanwhile, when the crowd gathered in thousands, so that they trampled on one another, he began to speak first to his disciples, ‘Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, their hypocrisy. Nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. Therefore whatever you have said […]
Prayers for Ukraine
Prayers for Ukraine Dear Friends, over the last week or so we’ve all watched with a mixture of horror, admiration, shock, and concern as Russian forces have invaded Ukraine. We’ve read in the news of invading forces being rather unprepared, running out of fuel, and food, and in some cases being arrested by armed civilians. […]
URC Daily Devotions Sunday Service for 27th February 2022 – The Revd. Phil Nevard
Daily Devotions from the United Reformed ChurchService for Sunday 27th February 2022 Transfiguration of Jesus by Alexandre Ivanov 1824, public domain The Rev’d Phil Nevard Introduction I’m Rev’d Phil Nevard and I minister in three villages around South Cambridgeshire. I’m also responsible for assembling a dazzling team of preachers to produce the weekly podcast and video […]