Lent with the URC Daily Devotions

A message from Andy Braunston, Coordinator of the URC Daily Devotions Project: Lent starts tomorrow – traditionally a six week period of preparation for Easter marked, before the Reformation, by fasting from meat and dairy products – Orthodox Christians still do this.  Many of us try and give something up for Lent, others try and […]

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Is Lent just about giving things up?

No!!  Lent is not all about giving things up.  It’s also about adding good things to our lives or to others’ lives – the kind of good things that follow on what Jesus asks of us, especially things that relate to what we are giving up.  Try these: Reconcile yourself to someone you don’t like, […]

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A Message from our Minister

Dear Friends As I write this letter, I am mindful that Christmas is behind us, and we are looking ahead to Lent and Easter. However every year we reflect on what Lent means for us as Christians, and as followers of Jesus.  Jesus wandered in the desert, wrestling and struggling with what his future might […]

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