Morning Service Sunday 14 November 2021

Welcome and Intimations

CH4 704 I Vow to Thee My Country

1. I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above,
   entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love:
   the love that asks no question, the love that stands the test,
   that lays upon the altar the dearest and the best;
   the love that never falters, the love that pays the price,
   the love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice.
   

2. And there's another country I've heard of long ago,
   most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know;
   we may not count her armies, we may not see her King;
   her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering;
   and soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase,
   and her ways are ways of gentleness and all her paths are peace.
   

© Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice

Reading of the Roll of Honour

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.

CH4 602 Is It Spooky? Is It Weird?

1. Is it spooky, is it weird
   that God wants to talk to you and me?
   Is it something to be feared?
   No! God wants the best for you and me!
   

1. God speaks through words in the Bible, through other people too;
   and shows us the right way we should live,
   in what we say and do.
   

   Is it spooky, is it weird
   that God wants to talk to you and me?
   Is it something to be feared?
   No! God wants the best for you and me!
   

2. He gives the Holy Spirit,
   to help us all to see,
   through people, words and pictures,
   his truth for you and me.
   

   Is it spooky, is it weird
   that God wants to talk to you and me?
   Is it something to be feared?
   No! God wants the best for you and me!
   

3. Now we should learn to listen
   to all that God would say,
   and act on what we think he’s said,
   so listen and obey.
   

   Is it spooky, is it weird
   that God wants to talk to you and me?
   Is it something to be feared?
   No! God wants the best for you and me!
   

© Captain Alan Price

1. Micah 4:1-5 (Avril Reilly)
2. Isaiah 65:17-25

Children’s Address

CH4 528 Make Me a Channel of Your Peace

1. Make me a channel of Your peace.
   Where there is hatred
   let me bring Your love;
   where there is injury,
   Your pardon, Lord;
   and where there’s doubt,
   true faith in You.
   

   O Master, grant that I may never seek
   so much to be consoled as to console;
   to be understood as to understand;
   to be loved, as to love with all my soul.
   

2. Make me a channel of Your peace.
   Where there’s despair in life
   let me bring hope;
   where there is darkness,
   only light;
   and where there’s sadness,
   ever joy.
   

   O Master, grant that I may never seek
   so much to be consoled as to console;
   to be understood as to understand;
   to be loved, as to love with all my soul.
   

3. Make me a channel of Your peace.
   It is in pardoning
   that we are pardoned,
   in giving to all men
   that we receive;
   and in dying
   that we’re born to eternal life.
   

© Sebastian Temple

Meditation

706 For the Healing of the Nations

1. For the healing of the nations, Lord,
   we pray with one accord,
   for a just and equal sharing
   of the things that earth affords.
   To a life of love in action
   help us rise and pledge our word.
   

2. Lead us forward into freedom,
   from despair your world release,
   that, redeemed from war and hatred,
   all may come and go in peace.
   Show us how through care and goodness
   fear will die and hope increase.
   

3. All that kills abundant living,
   let it from the earth be banned:
   pride of status, race or schooling,
   dogmas that obscure your plan.
   In our common quest for justice
   may we hallow brief life's span.
   

4. You, Creator God, have written
   your great name on humankind;
   for our growing in your likeness
   bring the life of Christ to mind;
   that by our response and service
   earth its destiny may find.
   

© Fred Kaan

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 710 I Have a Dream, a Man Once Said

1. “I have a dream”, a man once said,
   “where all is perfect peace;
   where men and women, black and white,
   stand hand in hand, and all unite
   in freedom and in love.”
   

2. But in this world of bitter strife
   the dream can often fade;
   reality seems dark as night,
   we catch but glimpses of the light
   Christ sheds on humankind.
   

3. Fierce persecution, war, and hate
   are raging everywhere;
   God calls us now to pay the price
   through struggles and through sacrifice
   of standing for the right.
   

4. So dream the dreams and sing the songs,
   but never be content:
   for thoughts and words don’t ease the pain:
   unless there’s action, all is vain;
   faith proves itself in deeds.
   

5. Lord, give us vision, make us strong,
   help us to do your will;
   don’t let us rest until we see
   your love throughout humanity
   uniting us in peace.
   

© Pamela J. Pettitt

The National Anthem

Blessing