Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 29 October The Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood, Saint Petersburg, Russia (Image: Mitya Ivanov | Unsplash) Today’s service is led by the Revd Andy Braunston Welcome Hello and welcome to worship. As Mumford and Sons’ song Lovers Eyes fades into the background we gather to worship […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday, 28 October 2023
Esther 4:14 “For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Reflection The Church’s record at covering abuse up, turning a […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday, 27 October 2023
inspiration in your inbox Friday, 27 October 2023 I’m Still a Christian Despite…the Church’s Racism Biblical Passages Romans 12:4-5 For as in one body we have many members and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. Galatians […]
Worship Notes and Weekly Intercessions for Sunday 29th October
Worship Notes and Weekly Intercessions Dear Friends, Millennia ago the prophet Habakkuk, when faced with war, environmental disaster and consequent famine, sung: Though the fig tree does not blossom, and no fruit is on the vines;though the produce of the olive fails and the fields yield no food;though the flock is cut off from the […]
Daily Devotion Wednesday, 25 October 2023
Wednesday, 25 October 2023 I am a Christian…despite myself Matthew 14: 27-31 Jesus spoke to them at once. “Don’t be afraid, he said, Take courage, I am here!” Then Peter called to him, “Lord, if it’s really you, tell me to come to you, walking on the water.” “Yes, come, “Jesus said. So Peter went […]
Daily Devotion Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Tuesday, 24 October 2023 I am still a Christian despite sexism. Galatians 3: 27-28 As many of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male or female; for you are all one in […]
Daily Devotion Monday, 23 October 2023
Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, ‘Get up and go towards the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ (This is a wilderness road.) So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of […]
Sunday Worship 22 October 2023
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 22 October 2023 (Image: Thomas K | Pexels) Today’s service is led by the Revd Fiona Bennett Welcome & Call to Worship Hello I am Fiona Bennett. I am the minister of Augustine United Church in Edinburgh and the Immediate Past Moderator of the URC GA. I am […]
URC Daily Devotion 21 October 2023
Galatians 3:27-29 “As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are […]
URC Daily Devotion 20 October 2023
Matthew 16:13-20 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that the Son of Man is?’ And they said, ‘Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ He said to them, ‘But who do you say […]