Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Epiphany, January 7 2024 Today’s service is led by the Revd Andy Braunston Call to Worship Jesus, Messiah, and Saviour, we come to Your crib today to pay you homage. Hail to the Lord’s anointed! Jesus, Messiah, and Saviour, we long for your reign on earth to be […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday, 6 January 2024
Colossians 3: 5 – 11 Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry). On account of these the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient. These are the ways you also once followed, when you were living that life. But now […]
URC Daily Devotion 5 January 2024
2 Timothy 1: 3 – 7 I am grateful to God—whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did—when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy. I am reminded of your sincere faith, a […]
URC Daily Devotion 4 January 2024
Jeremiah 29: 4-14 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your […]
URC Daily Devotion 3 January 2024
Psalm 51: 6 – 14 You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all […]
URC Daily Devotion 2 January 2024
Romans 12: 1 – 2 I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you […]
URC Daily Devotion 1 January 2024
Monday, 1 January 2024 If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation 2 Corinthians 5: 16 – 19 From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. So if […]
Behold, I Make All Things New!
Happy New Year Dear Friends, I hope that the reflections on the Christmas story over the last couple of weeks, and the O Antiphons before that were helpful as we celebrated Christmas. Now, hovering on the edge of a New Year we have our hopes and fears for the year ahead to ponder. Elections in […]
URC Daily Devotion 30 December 2023
Philippians 2: 4 – 11Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited,but emptied […]
URC Daily Devotion 29 December 2023
St Matthew 2: 19 – 23When Herod died, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, ‘Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.’ Then Joseph got up, took the […]