Gone Camping…. Dear Friends, it’s always a pleasure to hear from you but, until the end of August, I will be away! We’re catching up on deferred annual leave and have taken ourselves off to far flung northern isles. Now, of course, this doesn’t mean the Daily Devotions will stop. They are all queued up … [Read more…]
Friday 31st July 2020 Basis of Union 17 Scripture Acts 5.12-16 Now many signs and wonders were done among the people through the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico. None of the rest dared to join them, but the people held them in high esteem. Yet more than ever believers were added … [Read more…]
Thursday 30th July 2020 Basis of Union 16 St Matthew 26:26-28 While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, … [Read more…]
Wednesday 29th July 2020 Basis of Union 15 St John 3.22-29 After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he spent some time there with them and baptised. John also was baptising at Aenon near Salim because water was abundant there; and people kept coming and were being baptised— John, of … [Read more…]
Tuesday 28th July 2020 Basis 14 Ephesians 4.1-6 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in … [Read more…]
Monday 27th July 2020 Basis of Union 13 St Luke 4:16-21 When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll … [Read more…]
Sunday Worship from the URC’s Daily Devotions26th July 2020 The Rev’d Ruth Whitehead Introduction Welcome to this act of worship. My name is Ruth Whitehead. I am a minister of the United Reformed Church, currently serving as Moderator of the South Western Synod. The Synod stretches from Cornwall up beyond Swindon, and I live more … [Read more…]
Sunday 26th July 2020 Psalm 7 Plaintive is the song I singWoeful the lament I bringAll my anguish I lay bareGod my Saviour hear my prayer My pursuers take delightIn their malice and their spiteThey accuse me without causeHeld as in a lion’s claws Try me put me to the testIf I ever have oppressedThose … [Read more…]
Saturday 25th July 2020 Basis of Union 12 Basis The United Reformed Church confesses the faith of the Church catholic in one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It acknowledges that the life of faith to which it is called is a gift of the Holy Spirit continually received in Word and Sacrament and in … [Read more…]
Friday 24th July 2020 Basis of Union 11 Acts 2: 42-47 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. Awe came upon everyone, because many wonders and signs were being done by the apostles. All who believed were together and had all things in common; they … [Read more…]