Morning Service Sunday 1 October 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 655 For Your Generous Providing

Tune: Holy Manna

1. For your generous providing
   which sustain us all our days,
   for your Spirit here residing,
   we proclaim our heartfelt praise.
   Through the depths of joy and sorrow,
   though the road be smooth or rough,
   fearless, we can face tomorrow
   for your grace will be enough.
   

2. Hush our world’s seductive noises
   tempting us to stand alone;
   save us from the siren voices
   calling us to trust our own.
   For those snared by earthly treasure,
   lured by false security,
   Jesus, true and only measure,
   spring the trap to set folk free.
   

3. Round your table, through your giving,
   show us how to live and pray
   till your kingdom’s way of living
   is the bread we share each day:
   bread for us and for our neighbour,
   bread for body, mind, and soul,
   bread of heaven and human labour –
   broken bread that makes us whole.
   

Church of Scotland Panel on Worship

1. Psalm 78:1-4, 12-16
2. Exodus 17:1-7

CH4 21 Lord Teach Me All Your Ways

(based on Psalm 25)

1. Lord, teach me all your ways,
   reveal your paths to me;
   and lead me in your saving truth,
   show me what I should be.
   

2. Remember, Lord, your love,
   your care from ages past;
   and in that love remember me,
   in kindness hold me fast.
   

3. Forget my youthful faults,
   forgive my sinful ways;
   within the kindness of your love
   remember me always.
   

4. God, who is just and good,
   shows all who sin his way;
   he leads the humble in right paths,
   their teacher day by day.
   

5. All pathways of the Lord
   are kindly, true, and sure
   to those who keep his covenant
   and in his ways endure.
   

Meditation

CH4 167 Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah

1. Guide me, O thou great Jehovah,
   pilgrim through this barren land;
   I am weak, but thou art mighty;
   hold me with thy powerful hand.
   Bread of heaven, bread of heaven,
   feed me till my want is o’er.
   

2. Open now the crystal fountain,
   whence the healing stream doth flow.
   Let the fire and cloudy pillar
   lead me all my journey through.
   Strong Deliverer, strong Deliverer,
   be thou still my strength and shield,
   

3. When I tread the verge of Jordan,
   bid my anxious fears subside.
   Death of death, and hell's Destruction,
   land me safe on Canaan's side.
   Songs of praises, songs of praises
   I will ever give to thee,
   

COMMUNION

CH4 19 Ye Gates

1. Ye gates lift up your heads on high;
   ye doors that last for aye,
   be lifted up, that so the King
   of glory enter may.
   But who of glory is the King?
   The mighty Lord is this;
   even that same Lord that great in might
   and strong in battle is.
   

2. Ye gates, lift up your heads; ye doors,
   doors that do last for aye,
   be lifted up, that so the King
   of glory enter may.
   But who is he that is the King,
   the King of glory? who is this?
   The Lord of hosts, and none but he,
   the King of glory is.
   

   Alleluia! alleluia!
   alleluia! alleluia! alleluia!
   Amen, amen, amen.
   

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 646 Forth in the Peace of Christ We Go

1. Forth in the peace of Christ we go
   Christ to the world with joy we bring
   Christ in our minds, Christ on our lips,
   Christ in our hearts, the world's true King.
   

2. King of our hearts, Christ makes us kings
   kingship with him his servants gain
   with Christ, the Servant-Lord of all,
   Christ's world we serve, to share Christ's reign.
   

3. Priests of the world, Christ sends us forth
   the world of time to consecrate,
   the world of sin by grace to heal,
   Christ's world in Christ to recreate.
   

4. Prophets of Christ, we hear his Word:
   he claim our minds, to search his ways
   he claims our lips, to speak his truth
   he claims our hearts, to sing his praise.
   

5. We are his Church, he makes us one:
   here is one hearth for all to find
   here is one flock, one Shepherd-King
   here is one faith, one heart, one mind.
   

1969, 1987 James Quinn, published by OCP Publications Inc.

Blessing