Worship Resources Dear Friends, Over the next week we have a carol service on Thursday evening at 6.30pm, our normal Sunday morning service on Christmas Eve led by the Revd Sarah Moore, a Midnight Service of Holy Communion and, on Christmas Day, a service led by the Revd Dr Susan Durber. For those of you […]
Sunday Worship 17 December 2023 – Advent Week Three
Today’s service is led by the Revd Paul Whittle Introduction Welcome to this service for the third Sunday of Advent. As we navigate our way through this season of preparation, it is good to share these moments of worship. My name is Paul Whittle and, for another couple of weeks, I am the Moderator of […]
The O Antiphons
The O Antiphons & Christmas Services Dear <<First Name>>, I hope you’ve found the four weeks we’ve spent reflecting on Heaven, Hell, Death and Judgement stimulating. These are traditional Advent themes – though often not ones we dwell on. I’m grateful to Paul Nimmo, Ruth Dillon and Julian Templeton, in particular, for leading us through […]
Daily Devotion Friday, 15 December 2023
St Luke 18:1-8 Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, ‘In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, “Grant me […]
Daily Devotion Thursday, 14 December 2023
Matthew 1:18-23 Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned […]
Daily Devotion Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Romans 8:26-27 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to […]
URC Daily Devotion 12 December 2023
Romans 14:1-12 Welcome those who are weak in faith, but not for the purpose of quarrelling over opinions. Some believe in eating anything, while the weak eat only vegetables. Those who eat must not despise those who abstain, and those who abstain must not pass judgement on those who eat; for God has welcomed them. […]
URC Daily Devotion 11 December 2023
Monday, 11 December 2023 St John 5:19-24 Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing; […]
Sunday Worship 10 December 2023 Advent Week Two
Today’s service is led by the Revd Nicola Furley-Smith Introduction & Call to Worship Welcome to worship. My name is Nicola Furley-Smith, Secretary for Ministries, and today’s service comes from Purley. Now is the time of new beginning.Now is the time of watching and waiting;Now is the time of expectation;Now is the season of unfolding […]
An Extra Daily Devotion for Saturday 9th December 2023
Reflection One of the questions I ask as an End-of-life Doula, is ‘what do you think happens to you when you die? This question is also posed at our Death Cafes, and it provokes a lot of discussion. As Christians we believe that death is the process whereby we enter the next spiritual realm, a […]