Welcome!
To see the Sunday Service formatted for our retirement community please click here
Theme: Sovereignty of
God (Ps 99:1-3)
Pew News:
Name of all majesty,
fathomless mystery,
King of the ages
by angels adored;
power and authority,
splendour and dignity,
bow to his mastery,
Jesus is Lord!
Child of our destiny,
God from eternity,
love of the Father
on sinners outpoured;
see now what God has done
sending his only Son,
Christ the beloved One,
Jesus is Lord!
Saviour of Calvary,
costliest victory,
darkness defeated
and Eden restored;
born as a man to die,
nailed to a cross on high,
cold in the grave to lie,
Jesus is Lord!
Source of all sovereignty,
light, immortality,
life everlasting
and heaven assured;
so with the ransomed, we
praise him eternally,
Christ in his majesty,
Jesus is Lord!
Timothy Dudley Smith
Copyright administered by Oxford
University Press
Confession:
Our heavenly Father thank you that you
love us and care for us all the time. We know that this week we have not always
lived the way you tell us. We have done wrong things and not done all the good
things we should have done. Only you can save us, so please forgive us and help
us to live as your friends. We ask this in Jesus’ name. Amen
Family Slot: We Are
Not Very Good At Waiting for Good Things...
Come, thou fount of every blessing,
tune my heart to sing thy grace;
streams of mercy never ceasing
call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
sung by flaming tongues above;
Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it,
mount of thy redeeming love.
Here I raise mine Ebenezer;
'Hither by thy help I'm come',
and I hope, by thy good pleasure,
safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
interposed his precious blood.
O to grace how great a debtor
daily I'm constrained to be!
Let thy goodness like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the God I love;
here's my heart, O take and seal it,
seal it for thy courts above!
Robert Robinson (1735-1790)
Copyright
Reading: Isaiah 6:1-4
Reading: John 7:1-10
Creed:
I
believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was
conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin, Mary. He suffered under
Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead.
The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended to heaven and is seated
at the right hand of God the Father almighty. From there he will come to judge
the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the
communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and
the life everlasting. Amen.
1)
The church's one foundation
is Jesus Christ her Lord;
she is his new creation
by water and the word:
from heaven he came and sought her
to be his holy bride;
with his own blood he bought her
and for her life he died.
Called out from every nation,
yet one through all the earth;
her charter of salvation -
one Lord, one faith, one birth:
one holy name she blesses,
and shares one holy food;
as to one hope she presses
with every grace endued.
We see her long divided
by heresy and sect;
yet she by God is guided -
one people, one elect:
her vigil she is keeping,
her cry goes up, 'How long?'
and soon the night of weeping
shall be the dawn of song.
In toil and tribulation,
and tumult of her war,
she waits the consummation
of peace for evermore:
till with the vision glorious
her longing eyes are blessed;
at last the church victorious
shall be the church at rest!
Yet she on earth has union
with God the Three-in-One;
and mystic, sweet communion
with those whose rest is won:
O happy ones and holy!
Lord, grant to us your grace,
with them the meek and lowly,
in heaven to see your face.
Samuel J Stone (1839-1900)
2)
Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name
Blessed Be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed Be Your name
Every blessing You pour out, I'll
Turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
Blessed be Your name
When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's 'all as it should be'
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name
Every blessing You pour out I'll
Turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name,
Matt Redman
Copyright 2002 Thankyou Music
3)
Prayers:
Our
Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done,
on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we
forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us
from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and for
ever. Amen.
Christ
triumphant ever reigning,
Saviour,
Master, King!
Lord
of heaven, our lives sustaining,
hear
us as we sing:
Yours
the glory and the crown,
the
high renown, the eternal name.
Word
incarnate, truth revealing,
Son
of Man on earth!
power
and majesty concealing
by
your humble birth:
Suffering
servant, scorned, ill–treated,
victim
crucified!
death
is through the cross defeated,
sinners
justified:
Priestly
king, enthroned for ever
high
in heaven above!
sin
and death and hell shall never
stifle
hymns of love:
So,
our hearts and voices raising
through
the ages long,
ceaselessly
upon you gazing,
this
shall be our song:
Michael
Saward (1932-2015)
Copyright
Mrs E R Hudson/The Jubilate Group
Go
in peace to love and serve the Lord
In
the name of Christ. Amen.
Copyright 2021 St Lukes Church. All Rights Reserved. |