I am still a Christian…despite transphobia and ableism 1 Corinthians 12: 12-26For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 18th October 2023
I am still a Christian…despite the Church cosying up to power 1 Samuel 8 1-21 When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel. The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beer-sheba. Yet his sons did not follow in his ways, […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 17th October 2023
Tuesday 17th October 2023 I’m a Christian Despite…Church homophobia Romans 14:1-4;10-12 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 […]
URC Daily Devotion 16 October 2023
1 Peter 2: 9-17But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people;once you had not […]
Sunday Worship 15 October 2023
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 15 October 2023 Today’s service is led by the Revd Wayne Hawkins Call to Worship No matter your name you have a place here. Every name equally valuable. Every name holding the sacred. No name is greater and no name is less important. Every name is spoken and heard and the […]
URC Daily Devotion 14 October 2023
St John 4:4-30But Jesus had to go through Samaria. So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. A Samaritan woman came […]
URC Daily Devotion 13 October 2023
inspiration in your inbox 13 October 2023 I’m a Christian Despite…despite sexism. St Matthew 12: 46-50 While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers were standing outside, wanting to speak to him. Someone told him, ‘Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.’ […]
URC Daily Devotion 12 October 2023
2 Corinthians 4: 1 – 15 Therefore, since it is by God’s mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart. We have renounced the shameful things that one hides; we refuse to practise cunning or to falsify God’s word; but by the open statement of the truth we commend ourselves […]
URC Daily Devotion 11 October 2023
Habakkuk 3: 17 – 19 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 fold and there is no herd in the stalls,yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will exult in the God […]
Weekly Intercessions & Worship Notes for Sunday 15th 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 […]