Morning Service Sunday 2 January 2022

Welcome and Intimations

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 103 Fill Your Hearts with Joy and Gladness

1. Fill your hearts with joy and gladness,
   sing and praise your God and mine!
   Great the Lord in love and wisdom,
   might and majesty divine!
   He who framed the starry heavens
   knows and names them as they shine!
   

2. Praise the Lord, his people, praise him!
   Wounded souls his comfort know;
   those who fear him find his mercies,
   peace for pain and joy for woe;
   humble hearts are high exalted,
   human pride and power laid low.
   

3. Praise the Lord for times and seasons,
   cloud and sunshine, wind and rain;
   spring to melt the snows of winter
   till the waters flow again;
   grass upon the mountain pastures,
   golden valleys thick with grain.
   

4. Fill your hearts with joy and gladness,
   peace and plenty crown your days;
   love his laws, declare his judgments,
   walk in all his words and ways;
   he the Lord and we his children:
   praise the Lord, all people, praise!
   

© 1984 Hope Publishing Company, 380 S Main Pl, Carol Stream, IL 60188

1. Wisdom of Solomon 10:15-21
2. John 1:1-18

CH4 600 Spirit of God, Unseen as the Wind

1. Spirit of God, unseen as the wind,
   gentle as is the dove;
   teach us the truth and help us believe,
   show us the Saviour's love!
   

1. You spoke to us long, long ago,
   gave us the written word;
   we read it still, needing its truth
   through it God's voice is heard.
   

   Spirit of God, unseen as the wind,
   gentle as is the dove;
   teach us the truth and help us believe,
   show us the Saviour's love!
   

2. Without your help we fail our Lord,
   we cannot live His way;
   we need Your power, we need Your strength,
   following Christ each day.
   

   Spirit of God, unseen as the wind,
   gentle as is the dove;
   teach us the truth and help us believe,
   show us the Saviour's love!
   

Meditation

Known Unknowns 78 There Is a Line of Women

Tune: Ellacombe

1. There is a line of women
   extending back to Eve
   whose role in shaping history
   God only could conceive;
   and though through endless ages
   their witness was repressed,
   God valued and encouraged them
   through whom the world was blessed.
   

   So sing a song of Sarah —
   to laughter she gave birth;
   and sing a song of Tamar
   who stood for women’s worth;
   and sing a song of Hannah
   who bargained with her Lord;
   and sing a song of Mary
   who bore and bred God’s Word.
   

2. There is a line of women
   who took on powerful men,
   defying laws and scruples
   to let life live again;
   and though, despite their triumph,
   their stories stayed untold,
   God kept their number growing,
   creative, strong and bold.
   

   So sing a song of Sarah —
   to laughter she gave birth;
   and sing a song of Tamar
   who stood for women’s worth;
   and sing a song of Hannah
   who bargained with her Lord;
   and sing a song of Mary
   who bore and bred God’s Word.
   

3. There is a line of women
   who stood by Jesus’ side,
   who housed him while he ministered
   and held him when he died;
   and though they claimed he’d risen,
   their news was deemed suspect
   till Jesus stood among them,
   his womanly elect.
   

   So sing a song of Anna
   who saw Christ’s infant face;
   and sing a song of Martha
   who gave him food and space;
   and sing of all the Marys
   who heeded his requests,
   and now, at heaven’s banquet
   are Jesus’ fondest guests.
   

© Wild Goose Resource Group, Known Unknowns, 2018

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 530 One More Step Along the World I Go

1. One more step along the world I go,
   One more step along the world I go;
   From the old things to the new,
   Keep me travelling along with you:
   

   And it's from the old I travel to the new;
   Keep me travelling along with you.
   

2. Round the corners of the world I turn,
   More and more about the world I learn;
   All the new things that I see
   You'll be looking at along with me.
   

   And it's from the old I travel to the new;
   Keep me travelling along with you.
   

3. As I travel through the bad and good,
   Keep me travelling the way I should.
   Where I see no way to go,
   You'll be telling me the way, I know.
   

   And it's from the old I travel to the new;
   Keep me travelling along with you.
   

4. Give me courage when the world is rough,
   Keep me loving though the world is tough;
   Leap and sing in all I do,
   Keep me travelling along with you:
   

   And it's from the old I travel to the new;
   Keep me travelling along with you.
   

5. You are older than the world can be,
   You are younger than the life in me;
   Ever old and ever new,
   Keep me travelling along with you:
   

   And it's from the old I travel to the new;
   Keep me travelling along with you.
   

© 1971 Stainer & Bell, 23 Gruneisen Road, London N3 1DZ

Blessing