Morning Service Sunday 16 April 2023

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.

MP 109 Crown him with many crowns

1. Crown Him with many crowns,
   the Lamb upon His throne;
   Hark! how the heavenly anthem drowns
   all music but its own:
   awake, my soul, and sing
   of Him who died for thee,
   and hail Him as thy chosen King
   through all eternity.
   

2. Crown Him the Son of God
   before the worlds began;
   and ye who tread where He hath trod,
   crown Him the Son of Man,
   who every grief hath known
   that wrings the human breast,
   and takes and bears them for His own,
   that all in Him may rest.
   

3. Crown Him the Lord of life,
   who triumphed o’er the grave,
   and rose victorious in the strife,
   for those He came to save:
   His glories now we sing,
   who died and rose on high,
   who died eternal life to bring,
   and lives that death may die.
   

4. Crown Him the Lord of heaven,
   enthroned in worlds above;
   crown Him the King to whom is given
   the wondrous name of Love:
   all hail, Redeemer, hail!
   for Thou hast died for me;
   Thy praise shall never, never fail
   throughout eternity.
   

© Matthew Bridges & Godfrey Thring

1. John 20: 19-31

Baptism of Albie James Rodger

MP 225 He’s Got the Whole Wide World

1. He's got the whole wide world in His hands
   He's got the whole wide world in His hands
   He's got the whole wide world in His hands
   He's got the whole world in His hands
   

2. He's got everybody here in His hands
   He's got everybody here in His hands
   He's got everybody here in His hands
   He's got the whole world in His hands
   

3. He's got the tiny little baby in His hands
   He's got the tiny little baby in His hands
   He's got the tiny little baby in His hands
   He's got the whole world in His hands
   

4. He's got you and me brother in His hands
   He's got you and me sister in His hands
   He's got you and me brother in His hands
   He's got the whole world in His hands
   

Meditation

MP 346 It is a thing most wonderful

1. It is a thing most wonderful,
   almost too wonderful to be,
   that God’s own Son should come from heaven
   and die to save a child like me.
   

2. And yet I know that it is true;
   He chose a poor and humble lot,
   and wept, and toiled, and mourned, and died,
   for love of those who loved Him not.
   

3. I sometimes think about the cross,
   and shut my eyes and try to see
   the cruel nails and crown of thorns,
   and Jesus crucified for me.
   

4. But even could I see Him die,
   I could but see a little part
   of that great love, which, like a fire,
   is always burning in His heart.
   

5. I cannot tell how He could love
   a child so weak and full of sin;
   His love must be most wonderful,
   if He could die my love to win.
   

6. It is most wonderful to know
   His love for me so free and sure;
   but ‘tis more wonderful to see
   my love for Him so faint and poor.
   

7. And yet I want to love Thee, Lord;
   O light the flame within my heart,
   and I will love Thee more and more,
   until I see Thee as Thou art.
   

© William Walsham How

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

MP 296 I stand amazed in the presence

1. I stand amazed in the presence
   of Jesus the Nazarene,
   and wonder how He could love me,
   a sinner, condemned, unclean.
   

   How marvellous! how wonderful!
   and my song shall ever be:
   How marvellous! how wonderful!
   is my Saviour’s love for me!
   

2. For me it was in the garden
   He prayed – ‘Not My will, but Thine’;
   He had no tears for His own griefs,
   but sweat drops of blood for mine.
   How marvellous ...
   

   How marvellous! how wonderful!
   and my song shall ever be:
   How marvellous! how wonderful!
   is my Saviour’s love for me!
   

3. In pity angels beheld Him,
   and came from the world of light,
   to comfort Him in the sorrows
   He bore for my soul that night.
   How marvellous ...
   

   How marvellous! how wonderful!
   and my song shall ever be:
   How marvellous! how wonderful!
   is my Saviour’s love for me!
   

4. He took my sins and my sorrows,
   He made them His very own;
   He bore the burden to Calvary
   and suffered, and died alone.
   How marvellous ...
   

   How marvellous! how wonderful!
   and my song shall ever be:
   How marvellous! how wonderful!
   is my Saviour’s love for me!
   

5. When with the ransomed in glory
   His face I at last shall see,
   ‘twill be my joy through the ages
   to sing of His love for me.
   

   How marvellous! how wonderful!
   and my song shall ever be:
   How marvellous! how wonderful!
   is my Saviour’s love for me!
   

© Charles Hutchinson Gabriel

Blessing