Morning Service Sunday 11 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 198 Let Us Build a House

1. Let us build a house where love can dwell
   and all can safely live,
   a place where saints and children tell
   how hearts learn to forgive;
   built of hopes and dreams and visions,
   rock of faith and vault of grace;
   here the love of Christ shall end divisions:
   

   All are welcome, all are welcome,
   all are welcome in this place.
   

2. Let us build a house where prophets speak,
   and words are strong and true,
   where all God’s children dare to seek
   to dream God’s reign anew.
   Here the cross shall stand as witness
   and as symbol of God’s grace;
   here as one we claim the faith of Jesus:
   

   All are welcome, all are welcome,
   all are welcome in this place.
   

3. Let us build a house where love is found
   in water, wine and wheat:
   a banquet hall on holy ground,
   where peace and justice meet.
   Here the love of God, through Jesus,
   is revealed in time and space,
   as we share in Christ the feast that frees us:
   

   All are welcome, all are welcome,
   all are welcome in this place.
   

4. Let us build a house where hands will reach
   beyond the wood and stone
   to heal and strengthen, serve and teach,
   and live the Word they’ve known.
   Here the outcast and the stranger
   bear the image of God’s face;
   let us bring an end to fear and danger:
   

   All are welcome, all are welcome,
   all are welcome in this place.
   

5. Let us build a house where all are named,
   their songs and visions heard
   and loved and treasured,
   taught and claimed
   as words within the Word.
   Built of tears and cries and laughter,
   prayers of faith and songs of grace,
   let this house proclaim from floor to rafter:
   

   All are welcome, all are welcome,
   all are welcome in this place.
   

© Marty Haugen

1. Psalm 50:7-15
2. Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26

Children’s Message

CH4 606 Lord, You Sometimes Speak in Wonders

1. Lord, you sometimes speak in wonders
   unmistakable and clear;
   mighty signs to prove your presence,
   overcoming doubt and fear
   

2. Lord, you sometimes speak in whispers,
   still and small and scarcely heard;
   only those who want to listen
   catch the all-important word.
   

3. Lord, you sometimes speak in silence,
   through our loud and noisy day:
   we can know and trust you better
   when we quietly wait and pray.
   

4. Lord, you sometimes speak in Scripture:
   words that summon from the page,
   shown and taught us by your Spirit
   with fresh light for every age.
   

5. Lord, you always speak in Jesus,
   always new yet still the same;
   teach us now more of our Saviour;
   make our lives display his Name
   

© Christopher Martin Idle

Meditation

CH4 717 Christ the Healer

1. O Christ, the healer, we have come
   to pray for health, to plead for friends.
   How can we fail to be restored,
   when reached by love that never ends?
   

2. From every ailment flesh endures
   our bodies clamour to be freed;
   yet in our hearts we would confess
   that wholeness is our deepest need.
   

3. How strong, O Lord, are our desires,
   how weak our knowledge of ourselves!
   Release in us those healing truths
   unconscious pride resists or shelves.
   

4. In conflicts that destroy our health,
   we diagnose the world’s disease;
   our common life declares our ills:
   is there no cure, O Christ, for these?
   

5. Grant that we all, made one in faith,
   in your community may find
   the wholeness that, enriching us,
   shall reach the whole of humankind.
   

© Frederick Pratt Green

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 565 My life flows on in endless song

1. My life flows on in endless song,
   above earth’s lamentation.
   I catch the sweet, though far-off hymn
   that hails a new creation.
   

   No storm can shake my inmost calm
   while to that Rock I’m clinging.
   Since Love is lord of heav’n and earth,
   how can I keep from singing?
   

2. Through all the tumult and the strife,
   I hear that music ringing.
   It finds an echo in my soul.
   How can I keep from singing?
   

   No storm can shake my inmost calm
   while to that Rock I’m clinging.
   Since Love is lord of heav’n and earth,
   how can I keep from singing?
   

3. What though my joys and comforts die,
   I know my Saviour liveth.
   What though the darkness gather round?
   Songs in the night he giveth.
   

   No storm can shake my inmost calm
   while to that Rock I’m clinging.
   Since Love is lord of heav’n and earth,
   how can I keep from singing?
   

4. The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart,
   a fountain ever springing!
   All things are mine since I am his!
   How can I keep from singing?

   No storm can shake my inmost calm
   while to that Rock I’m clinging.
   Since Love is lord of heav’n and earth,
   how can I keep from singing?
   

© Robert Lowry and Doris Plenn

Blessing