Morning Service Sunday 17 September 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 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.
   

1989, Iona Community

1. Psalm 103:1-13
2. Exodus 14:19-31

Hymn CH4 600 Spirit of God, Unseen as the Wind

1. You spoke to us - long, long ago -
   gave us the written word;
   we read it still, needing its truth,
   through it God's voice is heard.
   

   Spirit of God, unseen as the wind,
   gentle as is the dove:
   teach us the truth and help us believe,
   show us the Saviour's love!
   

2. Without your help we fail our Lord,
   we cannot live his way;
   we need your power, we need your strength,
   following Christ each day.
   

   Spirit of God, unseen as the wind,
   gentle as is the dove:
   teach us the truth and help us believe,
   show us the Saviour's love!
   

Scripture Union

Meditation

CH4 414 Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain

1. Come, you faithful, raise the strain
   of triumphant gladness;
   God has brought his Israel
   into joy from sadness;
   loosed from Pharaoh's bitter yoke
   Jacob's sons and daughters;
   led them with unmoistened foot
   through the Red Sea waters.
   

2. 'Tis the spring of souls today;
   Christ has burst his prison,
   and from three days' sleep in death
   as a sun has risen:
   all the winter of our sins,
   long and dark, is flying
   from his light, to whom we give
   laud and praise undying.
   

3. Now the queen of seasons, bright
   with the day of splendour,
   with the royal feast of feasts
   comes its joy to render;
   comes to glad Christian hearts,
   which, with true affection,
   welcomes in unwearied strains
   Jesus' resurrection.
   

4. Neither could the gates of death,
   nor the grave's dark portal,
   nor the watchers, nor the seal,
   hold you as a mortal.
   Here today amid your own
   now you stand, bestowing
   your own peace, which evermore
   passes human knowing.
   

Church Hymnary Trust

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 470 Jesus Shall Reign Where’er the Sun

1. Jesus shall reign where e'er the sun
   does its successive journeys run;
   his Kingdom stretch from shore to shore,
   till moons shall wax and wane no more.
   

2. People and realms of every tongue
   declare his love with sweetest song;
   and infant voices shall proclaim
   their early blessings on his name.
   

3. Blessings abound where Jesus reigns:
   the prisoner leaps to lose their chains,
   the weary find eternal rest,
   and all who suffer want are blessed.
   

4. Let every creature rise and bring
   the highest honours to our King;
   angels descend with songs again,
   and earth repeat the loud Amen.
   

Blessing