Morning Service Sunday 4 June 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.

CH4 124 Praise to the Lord

1. Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation;
   praise God, my soul, for in him are your health and salvation;
   come all who hear,
   into his presence draw near,
   joining in glad adoration.
   

2. Praise to the Lord, who in all things is wondrously reigning,
   shields you from harm and is gently yet firmly sustaining.
   Have you not seen
   how your heart's wishes have been
   granted by God's wise ordaining?
   

3. Praise to the Lord, who with blessing and power will defend you;
   surely his goodness and mercy shall daily attend you;
   ponder anew
   what the Almighty can do:
   God will for ever befriend you.
   

4. Praise to the Lord! O let all that is in me adore him!
   All that has life and breath, come now with praises before him!
   Let the Amen
   sound from God's people again:
   gladly for ever adore him.
   

© Joachim Neander

1. Matthew 28:16-20
2. Genesis1: 1 – 2: 4a

Children’s Talk

CH4 598 Come Holy Ghost

1. Come, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire,
   let us thine influence prove:
   source of the old prophetic fire,
   fountain of life and love.
   

2. Come, Holy Ghost, for moved by thee
   the prophets wrote and spoke;
   unlock the truth, thyself the key:
   unseal the sacred book.
   

3. Expand thy wings, celestial Dove,
   brood o'er our nature's night;
   on our disordered spirits move,
   and let there now be light.
   

4. God, through the Spirit we shall know,
   if thou within us shine,
   and sound, with all thy saints below,
   the depths of love divine.
   

© Charles Wesley

Meditation

CH4 238 Lord bring the day to pass

1. Lord, bring the day to pass
   when forest, rock and hill,
   the beasts, the birds, the grass,
   will know your finished will:
   when we attain our destiny
   and nature lives in harmony.
   

2. Forgive our careless use
   of water, ore and soil–
   the plenty we abuse
   supplied by others’ toil:
   save us from making self our creed,
   turn us towards each other’s need.
   

3. Help us, when we release
   creation’s secret powers,
   to harness them for peace–
   our children’s peace and ours:
   teach us the art of mastering
   in servant form, Like Christ our King.
   

4. Creation groans, travails,
   futile its present plight,
   bound - till the hour it hails
   God’s children born of light,
   that we may gain our true estate.
   Come, Lord: new heavens and earth create.
   

© Ian Masson Fraser

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 112 God, Whose Almighty Word

1. God, whose almighty word
   chaos and darkness heard,
   and took their flight;
   hear us, we humbly pray,
   and where the gospel-day
   sheds not its glorious ray,
   let there be light.
   

2. Saviour, who came to bring,
   on your redeeming wing,
   healing and sight,
   health to the sick in mind,
   sight to the inly blind,
   now to all humankind
   let there be light.
   

3. Spirit of truth and love,
   life-giving, holy dove,
   speed forth your flight;
   move o'er the water's face,
   bearing the lamp of grace,
   and in earth's darkest place
   let there be light.
   

4. Blessèd and holy Three,
   glorious Trinity,
   Wisdom, Love, Might,
   boundless as ocean's tide
   rolling in fullest pride,
   through the world far and wide
   let there be light.
   

© John Marriot & Thomas Raffles

Blessing