Today's service was prepared by the Revd Paul Robinson.

"And so the invitation for each of us today is to follow Him. Follow Him in life, follow Him through death and into  an eternal life."

Daily Devotions

Sunday Worship 25 February 2024 with the Revd Paul Robinson

The worship for Sunday 7 July, was prepared by the Revd Andy Braunston, the URC's Minister for Digital Worship.

"Many of us don’t have to think too hard about who we are as we’re perceived as being normal; others of us are aware of the various identities we have that make us a little different – and of course in today’s society simply being a Christian makes us a little different too."

Digital Worship

Sunday Worship 7 July 2024 with the Revd Andy Braunston

The worship for Sunday 28 July, was prepared by the Revd Andy Braunston, the URC's Minister for Digital Worship.

"Despite our own humanity we don’t like to see the feet of clay of our heroes.  We want heroes who fit our preconceptions, do nothing wrong, and answer the problems in our world."

Sunday Worship 28 July 2024 with the Revd Andy Braunston

The worship for Sunday 13 October, was prepared by the Revd Lindsey Sanderson, the Moderator of the National Synod of Scotland of the United Reformed Church.

"It is easy to read our Gospel reading from Mark and focus upon it as an attack against people with money, and has often been used in that way. However a bit of background to the story, may lead us to think that some of the ideas about Jesus that we hold were not actually the case.  "

Sunday Worship 13 October 2024 with the Revd Lindsey Sanderson

The worship for Sunday 27 October was prepared by the Revd Mark Rodgers, one of two stipendiary ministers in the URC Shropshire pastorate.

"when you are lost in the week, caught up in the cycle of your everyday duties, stop and then think about this passage (Mark 10:46-52) from the point of view of Jesus. Look through his eyes, and know blindness no more."

Sunday Worship 27 October 2024, with the Revd Mark Rodgers

The worship for Sunday 17 November, was prepared by the Revd Andy Braunston, the URC's Minister for Digital Worship.

"Our readings today all speak of finding safety, security and shelter in God amidst tumultuous times.  They are a good starting place to think about the role of safeguarding in the church as we seek to make our congregations places of safety, security and shelter."

Sunday Worship 17 November 2024 with the Revd Andy Braunston

The worship for Sunday 5 January, was prepared by the Revd Andy Braunston, the URC's Minister for Digital Worship.

"We explore, in worship today, themes of light shining in the darkness, mysterious visitors bringing the Holy Family even more mysterious gifts, and consider how a people struggling in exile and defeat were enlightened with God’s glorious light." 

Sunday Worship 5 January 2025, Epiphany, with the Revd Andy Braunston

The worship for Sunday 2 February, was prepared by the Revd Andy Braunston, the URC's Minister for Digital Worship.

"In our spiritual lives we often have these two steams of thought going on – the bitter believer asserting that waiting for God to help can lead to anger and devastation and the profound believer who lacks doubt and hostility."  

Sunday Worship 2 February 2025, with the Revd Andy Braunston

The worship for Sunday 9 February, was prepared by the Revd Neil Thorogood, a minister of two congregations in the South Western Synod.

"If the Bible is a love letter and an invitation, it is also a compass. The Bible wants us to be travelling people, pilgrim people, people on a journey deep into the life of the world and never away from the world and all of its pain and possibility."  

Sunday Worship 9 February 2025, with the Revd Neil Thorogood

The worship for Sunday 23 February, was prepared by the Revd Sue McCoan, a minister of two churches in West London.

"What do you do when you have been badly treated? What do you do when see someone else being badly treated? Jesus tells us, in our reading from Luke, to love our enemies; not to judge, but to forgive." 

Sunday Worship 23 February 2025, with the Revd Sue McCoan

The worship for Sunday 23 March, was prepared by the Revd Dr Lance Stone, a retired United Reformed Church minister.

"This season of Lent is traditionally a time of fasting, but if it is not your practice to fast perhaps it could at least be a time to think about food and the choices we make and what they disclose."

Sunday Worship 23 March 2025, with the Revd Dr Lance Stone

The worship for Sunday 30 March, was prepared by the Revd Ryan Sirmons, a minister from the Northwest and Central, Newcastle upon Tyne pastorate of the United Reformed Church.

"Turning to Christ is not some form of magical thinking, it's modelling our collective lives in the way Jesus himself did, by prioritising people. " 

Sunday Worship 30 March 2025, with the Revd Ryan Sirmons

The worship for Sunday 6 April 2025, was prepared by the Revd Andy Braunston, the URC's Minister for Digital Worship.

"Through Lent we follow Jesus on his slow road to Jerusalem; this week the plot thickens in our Gospel reading as, against the background of the plans to kill him, Mary anoints Jesus for his death."

Sunday Worship 6 April 2025, with the Revd Andy Braunston

The service for Palm Sunday, 13 April, was prepared by the Revd Dr Susan Durber, who serves as one of the eight Presidents of the World Council of Churches.

"This year the calendars of the churches are aligned so that we are celebrating Holy Week and Easter together: Orthodox, Catholic, Anglican and Reformed. May we all know the joy of the gospel together!"

Palm Sunday Worship 13 April 2025, with the Revd Dr Susan Durber

The service for Good Friday, was prepared by the Revd Andy Braunston, the URC's Minister for Digital Worship.

"We follow Jesus from the garden to the tomb, ponder things through the eyes of Peter, Pilate, and Mary and wonder how we might have reacted if we’d been there."

Good Friday Service 18 April 2025, with the Revd Andy Braunston

The worship for Easter Sunday was prepared by the Revd Ruth Whitehead, a minister of the Landsker Pastorate of the URC.

"Christ is risen”, "He is risen indeed, alleluia!" 


Easter Sunday Worship 20 April 2025, with the Revd Ruth Whitehead

The worship for Sunday 27 April, was prepared by the Revd Dr Michael Hopkins, the URC Moderator of the Wessex Synod.

"What if everything impossible in our lives which actually happens is an experience of resurrection?  What if each one is a time when Jesus stepped through the locked door of our life?  That’s exactly what happened in today’s gospel reading." 

Sunday Worship 27 April 2025, with the Revd Dr Michael Hopkins

The worship for Sunday 4 May 2025, was prepared by the Revd Andy Braunston, the URC's Minister for Digital Worship.

"As we journey through Eastertide we are going to think today of the conversion of a zealot fundamentalist who was happy to murder to keep faith pure.  Yet Saul was stopped in his tracks and had his life turned around by a vision of the Risen One."

Sunday Worship 4 May 2025, with the Revd Andy Braunston

The worship for Sunday 11 May 2025, was prepared by the Revd Dr Nick Jones, a minister of two United Reformed Churches in the Mersey Synod.

"At Heswall URC we have adopted the mission statement ‘We believe God loves us all, so everyone is welcome here’ and you are all welcome today.  In our service we’ll be thinking about how this hasn’t always been the case, and churches have sometimes excluded groups of people."

Sunday Worship 11 May 2025, with the Revd Dr Nick Jones

The worship for Sunday 18 May 2025, was prepared by the Revd Catherine McFie, a URC minister, serving in the Mersey Synod.

"...I would also encourage you to think about Peter’s words “If then God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could hinder God?” and consider what this means to you as a disciple."

Sunday Worship 18 May 2025, with the Revd Catherine McFie

The worship for Sunday 18 May 2025, was prepared by the Revd Fiona Bennett, the minister at  Augustine United Church in Edinburgh.

"I wonder what God may be saying to us and giving us (even from very unexpected places) what we need to start out in a new direction on our journey of faith?"

Sunday Worship 25 May 2025, with the Revd Fiona Bennett

The worship for Sunday 1 June 2025, was prepared by the Revd Andy Braunston, the URC's Minister for Digital Worship.

"Ascension draws us to the end of the Easter stories where Jesus hands over his work to his friends – friends who include you and me."

Sunday Worship 1 June 2025, with the Revd Andy Braunston

The worship for Sunday 8 June 2025, was prepared by the Revd Dr Elaine Colechin, the minister of Bromley United Reformed Church.

"As the Holy Spirit descended on the disciples, the vestibule of Bromley United Reformed Church was possibly not what they envisioned. Yet, it offers a glimpse of what the church should be: diverse, welcoming, a place where everyone has a sense of value."

Sunday Worship 8 June 2025, with the Revd Dr Elaine Colechin

The worship for Sunday 15 June 2025, was prepared by the Revd Cara Heafey, a minister at Marston and Wheatley United Reformed Churches and part time in the Oxford hospitals.

"How can God be one and three at the same time? How can Jesus be God and also pray to God? Where does the Holy Spirit fit in? And as if all of that isn’t enough to make us dizzy, the Lectionary for today presents us with yet another character – this wisdom-woman from the book of Proverbs. Who is she, and what does she have to do with the Trinity?"

Sunday Worship 15 June 2025, with the Revd Cara Heafey

The worship for Sunday 22 June 2025, was prepared by the Revd Andy Braunston, the URC's Minister for Digital Worship.

"Today we look at the famous story of Elijah, on the run from justice after committing genocidal murder, engaging in a pity party thinking he’s the only one left who is faithful to God, and being corrected as his assumptions are turned upside down."

Sunday Worship 22 June 2025, with the Revd Andy Braunston

The worship for Sunday 29 June 2025, was prepared by the Revd Ruth Watson, a special category minister at Salford MediaCityUK.

"If we live for ourselves we are no good to anyone.  So, as we think about our readings today, and thinking about what that means for us today, let us practise our Habits for our nine fruits of the spirit and live the life of the spirit and moving forward as we go."

Sunday Worship 29 June 2025, with the Revd Ruth Watson

The worship for Sunday 6 July 2025, was prepared by the Revd Andy Braunston, the URC's Minister for Digital Worship.

"Today we think of a story of a pagan general, an enemy of Israel, seek healing from Israel’s God and one of His prophets.  A healing freely given long before any profession of faith in the One who heals."

Sunday Worship 6 July 2025, with the Revd Andy Braunston

The worship for Sunday 13 July 2025, was prepared by Emma Howarth, the Training and Development Officer for the Mersey Synod.

"On this Sunday in July, an ordinary Sunday, a summer’s day, we come to worship God.  Today we leave busy lives and, perhaps, our troubles behind as we focus on a gracious and generous God who loves us."

Sunday Worship 13 July 2025, with Emma Howarth

The worship for Sunday 20 July 2025, was prepared by the Revd Angela Rigby, a URC minister currently serving churches in Kent.

"Our reading from Amos was a warning.  The people of Israel were experiencing a time of relative peace and prosperity, yet instead of using that time to ensure everyone’s needs were met, the divide between the wealthy and the poor was growing."

Sunday Worship 20 July 2025, with the Revd Angela Rigby

The worship for Sunday 27 July 2025, was prepared by the Revd Jessica Ashcroft-Townsley, minister to Kingsteignton URC and companion minister to the Somerset Group of churches.

"If you are anything like me, you have asked a parent, mentor, or minister at some point in your life, “How do I pray?” Or maybe even, “What is the right way to pray?”"

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