For this I will lament and wail;I will go barefoot and naked;I will make lamentation like the jackals,and mourning like the ostriches.For her wound is incurable.It has come to Judah;it has reached to the gate of my people,to Jerusalem.Tell it not in Gath,weep not at all;in Beth-leaphrahroll yourselves in the dust.Pass on your way,inhabitants of […]
URC Daily Devotion 30th January
The word of the Lord that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Kings Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.Hear, you peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and all that is in it;and let the Lord God be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy […]
Policy Statement for Safeguarding Children and Adults at Risk
PURLEY UNITED REFORMED CHURCH Policy Statement for Safeguarding Children, Young People and Adults at Risk – updated – January 2018 Purley United Reformed Church, along with the whole Christian community, believes each person is created in the image and likeness of God. Therefore: We have a duty to value all people, treat each person […]
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Policy Statement for Safeguarding Children and Adults at Risk Purley United Reformed Church, along with the whole Christian community, believes each person is created in the image and likeness of God. Therefore: We have a duty to value all people, treat each person with dignity and protect them from harm. We are committed to the […]
URC Daily Devotion 29th January
On that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen,and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old;in order that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name, says the Lord who does this.The time is surely coming, […]
URC Daily Devotions 28th January
How blessed the one who has receivedforgiveness for his sin!Whose sins are covered from God’s face,Whose debt is cancelled in God’s grace;there’s no deceit in him.When I kept silent, all my boneswith groaning were worn out.Beneath your hand I felt entrappedBoth day and night; my strength was sappedas in a summer drought. Then I laid […]
URC Daily Devotion 27th January
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said:Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people;and those who are left I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away, not one of them shall escape. Though they dig into Sheol, from there shall my […]
URC Daily Devotion 26th January
Hear this, you that trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land,saying, “When will the new moon be over so that we may sell grain;and the sabbath, so that we may offer wheat for sale?We will make the ephah small and the shekel great, and practice deceit with false balances,buying the poor for silver and […]
URC Daily Devotion 25th January
This is what the Lord God showed me—a basket of summer fruit. He said, “Amos, what do yousee?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me,“The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass them by.The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,”says […]
URC Daily Devotion 24th January
Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, ‘Amos has conspired against you in the very centre of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words. For thus Amos has said,“Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.”’And […]