Morning Service Sunday 7 August 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 522 The Church Is Wherever God’s People Are Praising

1. The Church is wherever God's people are praising,
   knowing they're wanted and loved by their Lord.
   The Church is wherever Christ's followers are trying
   to live and to share out the good news of God.
   

2. The Church is wherever God's people are loving,
   where all are forgiven and start once again,
   where all are accepted, whatever their background,
   whatever their past and whatever their pain.
   

3. The Church is wherever God's people are seeking
   to reach out and touch folk wherever they are --
   conveying the Gospel, its joy and its comfort,
   to challenge, refresh, and excite and inspire.
   

4. The Church is wherever God's people are praising,
   knowing we're wanted and loved by our Lord.
   The Church is where we as Christ's followers are trying
   to live and to share out the good news of God.
   

© Carol Rose Ikeler

1. Psalm 33:12-22
2. Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16

Children’s Message

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

Meditation

CH4 535 Who Would True Valour See

1. Who would true valour see,
   let him come hither;
   one here will constant be,
   come wind, come weather;
   there's no discouragement
   shall make him once relent
   his first avowed intent
   to be a pilgrim.
   

2. Whoso beset him round
   with dismal stories,
   do but themselves confound;
   his strength the more is.
   No lion can him fright;
   he'll with a giant fight,
   but he will have a right
   to be a pilgrim.
   

3. Hobgoblin nor foul friend
   can daunt his spirit;
   he knows he at the end
   shall life inherit.
   Then fancies fly away;
   he'll fear not what men say;
   he'll labour night and day
   to be a pilgrim.
   

© John Bunyan

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.
   

© Sydney Bertram Carter

Blessing