St Luke 7:36-50 Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so Jesus went to his home and sat down to eat. When a certain immoral woman from that city heard he was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. Then […]
Sunday Worship 8 October 2023
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 8 March 2023 Today’s service is led by the Revd Dr Phil Wall Call to Worship Today is Sunday, a day when Christians across the globe gather together. We gather as communities of faith in God’s created world. We gather to celebrate that no darkness can extinguish light, to remember that […]
Daily Devotion Saturday 7th October 2023
Matthew 28:16-20 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, […]
Daily Devotion Friday 6th October 2023
Luke 13: 6-9 Then [Jesus ] told this parable: ‘Someone had a fig tree planted in their vineyard; and they came looking for fruit on it and found none. So they said to the gardener, “See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. […]
Daily Devotion Thursday 5th October 2023
Exodus 3:1-2 Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, […]
Daily Devotion Wednesday 4th October 2023
Wednesday, 4 October 2023 Job – a happy ending BUT no restoration of what is lost. The Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi Job 42: 10 And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then there […]
Daily Devotion Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Jeremiah 12:4 How long will the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither?For the wickedness of those who live in it the animals and the birds are swept away,and because people said, ‘[God] is blind to our ways.’ 1 John 4:20 Those who say, “I love God,” and hate their brothers or sisters, […]
Daily Devotion Monday 2nd October 2023
Genesis 3: 17 – 19 To Adam [God] said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It […]
Sunday Worship 1 October 2023
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 1 October 2023 Today’s service is led by the Revd Nicola Furley-Smith Call to Worship The Psalmist says: teach me your ways and make them known to me. Teach me to live according to your truth – teach it to me – because you are my God who saves […]
URC Daily Devotion 30 September 2023
Revelation 18 After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority; and the earth was made bright with his splendour. He called out with a mighty voice, ‘Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! It has become a dwelling-place of demons,a haunt of every foul spirit, a haunt of every foul bird, a haunt of […]