Morning Service Sunday 10 July 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 211 Today I Awake

1. Today I awake
   and God is before me,
   at night, as I dreamt,
   he summoned the day
   for God never sleeps,
   but patterns the morning
   with slithers of gold
   or glory in grey.
   

2. Today I arise
   and Christ is beside me.
   He walked through the dark
   to scatter new light.
   Yes, Christ is alive,
   and beckons his people
   to hope and to heal,
   resist and invite.
   

3. Today I affirm
   the Spirit within me
   at worship and work,
   in struggle and rest.
   The Spirit inspires
   all life which is changing
   from fearing to faith,
   from broken to blessed.
   

4. Today I enjoy
   the Trinity round me,
   above and beneath,
   before and behind;
   the Maker, the Son,
   the Spirit together –
   they called me to life
   and call me their friend.
   

© John L Bell & Graham Maule

1. Amos 7:7-17
2. Luke 10:25-37

Children’s Message

CH4 21 Lord Teach Me All Your Ways

(based on Psalm 25)

1. Lord, teach me all your ways,
   reveal your paths to me;
   and lead me in your saving truth,
   show me what I should be.
   

2. Remember, Lord, your love,
   your care from ages past;
   and in that love remember me,
   in kindness hold me fast.
   

3. Forget my youthful faults,
   forgive my sinful ways;
   within the kindness of your love
   remember me always.
   

4. God, who is just and good,
   shows all who sin his way;
   he leads the humble in right paths,
   their teacher day by day.
   

5. All pathways of the Lord
   are kindly, true, and sure
   to those who keep his covenant
   and in his ways endure.
   

Meditation

CH4 254 O God We Bear the Imprint of Your Face

1. O God, we bear the imprint of your face:
   the colours of our skin are your design,
   and what we have of beauty in our race
   as man or woman, you alone define,
   who stretched a living fabric on our frame
   and gave to each a language and a name.
   

2. Where we are torn and pulled apart by hate
   because our race, our skin is not the same;
   while we are judged unequal by the state
   and victims made because we own our name,
   humanity reduced to little worth,
   dishonoured is your living face on earth.
   

3. O God, we share the image of your Son
   whose flesh and blood are ours, whatever skin,
   in his humanity we find our own,
   and in his family our proper kin:
   Christ is the brother we still crucify,
   his love the language we must learn, or die.
   

© Shirley Erena Murray

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 544 When I Needed a Neighbour

1. When I needed a neighbour, were you there, were you there?
   When I needed a neighbour, were you there?
   And the creed and the colour and the name won’t matter, were you there?
   

2. I was hungry and thirsty, were you there, were you there?
   I was hungry and thirsty, were you there?
   And the creed and the colour and the name won’t matter, were you there?
   

3. I was cold, I was naked, were you there, were you there?
   I was cold, I was naked, were you there?
   And the creed and the colour and the name won’t matter, were you there?
   

4. When I needed a shelter, were you there, were you there?
   When I needed a shelter, were you there?
   And the creed and the colour and the name won’t matter, were you there?
   

5. When I needed a healer, were you there, were you there?
   When I needed a healer, were you there?
   And the creed and the colour and the name won’t matter, were you there?
   

6. Wherever you travel I’ll be there, I’ll be there,
   wherever you travel I’ll be there.
   And the creed and the colour and the name won’t matter, I'll be there.
   

© Sydney Bertram Carter

Blessing