Home Worship
Visit our This Week's Services or Prayer pages for home worship material from Temple.
You may like to join the Circuit worshipping together in a service led by Reverend Deborah Kirk or Reverend Tony Cox. The service is available on this link from 9.30 am on the relevant Sunday until the following Friday. Previous Sunday services can be found on this Youtube Channel.
There is also a Zoom meeting at 6:30 pm on a Sunday twice monthly, contact enquiries@templetaunton.uk for details on joining in.
There are additional resources available on the circuit website.
If you wish to join a live service of worship or catch up on a service please see the links below.
You can use the Daily Devotions from the URC. There are now also regular posts of material for use on a Sunday morning.
You can follow us on facebook
Livestream services and previously streamed services can be found on the Temple Youtube Channel
OTHER LIVE-STREAMED SERVICES:
Wesley’s Chapel in London Wednesday 12.45, Thursday 12.45 and Sunday 9.45 and 11.00.
Swan Bank Methodist Church in Burslem Sunday 10.30
Methodist Central Hall, Westminster Sunday 11.00
Bristol Cathedral Livestream - all their daily services on facebook
ON YOUR RADIO:
BBC Radio 4 Daily Service weekdays 9.45, BBC Radio 4 Sunday Service Sunday 8.10
BBC Local Radio, including Somerset, are broadcasting half hour virtual services on Sunday mornings at 8.00am on 95.5 AM / DAB and 1566MW. You can find how to listen to your BBC local radio station here.
WORSHIP RESOURCES:
Morning prayers from Wesley House Cambridge 09:00 Monday - Friday, resources are available at: www.wesley.cam.ac.uk/prayer-space
The Methodist Church website provides a Resource Hub as well as the latest news from the Connexion, plus you may like to use the prayers on the Methodist Church Website Prayer Hub or post your own. Daily Bible Readings and studies are also available.
ROOTS is currently offering free resources to use at home every week on the ROOTS website.
See more resources for worship on the Circuit Plan page.
SPIRITUAL SUSTENANCE WHEN IN ISOLATION:
The Methodist Church website has published a page dedicated to signpost you to resources to help nourish your spiritual life when feeling isolated.
Daily
Pray our daily prayer from the Methodist Prayer Handbook
Join online Morning Prayer from Wesley's Chapel 10:00 am - 10:15 am
Pray for others on our Prayer Hub
Take part in our daily Bible study
Weekly
Every Monday: Join the President and Vice-President live on Facebook for their weekly chat and prayers at 12:45 pm
Every Tuesday: Take part in the 15 minute Year of Prayer service at 12:45 pm. Register to join on Zoom here or watch live on our Facebook page.
Every Sunday: Take part in a live online Sunday service from Methodist Central Hall Westminster. Every Sunday 11.00 am at https://mchw.live
Read aloud the specially-prepared Epiphany O Antiphons for 2021
Dial-a-Prayer: Free telephone lines where you can listen to prayer or Methodist News. These are updated weekly. Please share these numbers with those who are not online
Lent Readings and Prayers
When I survey the wondrous cross
on which the Prince of Glory died
my richest gain I count but loss
and pour contempt on all my pride.
1st Sunday in Lent - coins or money bag
Matthew 26: 14 - 16 - Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus
14 Then one of the Twelve—the one called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests 15 and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?” So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver. 16 From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand him over.
Loving Lord, watch over us always, especially today, lest we betray you like Judas. Amen.
2nd Sunday in Lent - bowl and towel
John 13: 1-5, 12
1 It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
2 The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. 4 Jesus got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. 5 After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
12 When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them.
Loving Lord, show us through your way of service how we should love and serve our neighbour. Amen.
3rd Sunday in Lent - cup and bread
Matthew 26: 26 – 29
26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.”
27 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. 28 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. 29 I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”
Lord Jesus, we give you thanks that ordinary things, ordinary people, ordinary lives, are transformed when we place them in your hands. Amen.
4th Sunday in Lent - crown of thorns
John 18: 33 – 38a
33 Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
34 “Is that your own idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk to you about me?”
35 “Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?”
36 Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.”
37 “You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”
38 “What is truth?” retorted Pilate.
Lord Jesus, teach us to follow in humility, your way of Truth. Amen.
5th Sunday in Lent - purple robe
Mark 15: 16 – 20 - The Soldiers Mock Jesus
16 The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called together the whole company of soldiers. 17 They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him. 18 And they began to call out to him, “Hail, king of the Jews!” 19 Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him. 20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
Lord Jesus, this robe reminds us of another, touched by a suffering woman with the faith that she would be healed. Heal our lives too, we pray. Amen.
6th Sunday in Lent - palms
John 12: 12-15
12 The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem.
13 They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,
“Hosanna!”
“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”
“Blessed is the king of Israel!”
14 Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written:
15 “Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion;
see, your king is coming,
seated on a donkey’s colt.”
Let the picture of the King on a donkey, be hung in every leader’s gallery; every politician’s office; every scholar’s library; every minister’s study; and be seen in every disciple’s life. Amen