Morning Service Sunday 26 September 2021

Welcome and Call to Worship

Prayer and Lord’s Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power, and the glory
for ever and ever.
Amen.

Hymn CH4 181 For the beauty of the earth

1. For the beauty of the earth,
   for the beauty of the skies,
   for the love which from our birth
   over and around us lies.
   

   Christ our God, to you we raise
   this our sacrifice of praise.
   

2. For the beauty of each hour
   of the day and of the night,
   hill and vale, and tree and flower,
   sun and moon and stars of light:
   

   Christ our God, to you we raise
   this our sacrifice of praise.
   

3. For the joy of ear and eye,
   for the heart and mind's delight,
   for the mystic harmony
   linking sense to sound and sight:
   

   Christ our God, to you we raise
   this our sacrifice of praise.
   

4. For the joy of human love,
   brother, sister, parent, child,
   friends on earth, and friends above,
   for all gentle thoughts and mild:
   

   Christ our God, to you we raise
   this our sacrifice of praise.
   

5. For each perfect gift and sign
   of your love so freely given,
   graces human and divine,
   flowers of earth and buds of heaven:
   

   Christ our God, to you we raise
   this our sacrifice of praise.
   

© Folliott Sandford Pierpoint

Children’s Talk

1. James 5: 13-20

CH4 238 Lord bring the day to pass

1. Lord, bring the day to pass
   when forest, rock and hill,
   the beasts, the birds, the grass,
   will know your finished will:
   when we attain our destiny
   and nature lives in harmony.
   

2. Forgive our careless use
   of water, ore and soil--
   the plenty we abuse
   supplied by others' toil:
   save us from making self our creed,
   turn us towards each other's need.
   

3. Give us, when we release
   creation's secret powers,
   to harness them for peace--
   our children's peace and ours:
   teach us the art of mastering
   in servant form, which draws death's sting.
   

4. Creation groans, travails,
   futile its present plight,
   bound till the hour it hails
   God's children born of light,
   who enter on their true estate.
   Come, Lord: new heavens and earth create.
   

© Ian Masson Fraser

Meditation

There is a balm in Gilead

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

Intimations

CH4 149 Let all creation dance

1. Let all creation dance
   in energies sublime,
   as order turns with chance,
   unfolding space and time;
   for nature’s art
   in glory grows,
   and newly shows
   God’s mind and heart.
   

2. Our own amazing earth,
   with sunlight, cloud and storms,
   and life’s abundant growth
   in lovely shapes and forms
   is made for praise,
   a fragile whole,
   and from it’s soul
   heav’n’s music plays.
   

3. Lift heart and soul and voice;
   in Christ all praises meet,
   and nature shall rejoice
   as all is made complete.
   In hope be strong,
   all life befriend,
   and kindly tend
   Creation’s song.
   

© Brian Wren

Blessing