Morning Service Sunday 16 February 2025

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 416 Christ Is Alive!

1. Christ is alive! Let Christians sing.
   The cross stands empty to the sky.
   Let streets and homes with praises ring.
   Love, drowned in death, shall never die.
   

2. Christ is alive! No longer bound
   to distant years in Palestine,
   but saving, healing, here and now,
   and touching every place and time.
   

3. In every insult, rift and war,
   where color, scorn or wealth divide,
   Christ suffers still, yet loves the more,
   and lives, where even hope has died.
   

4. Women and men, in age and youth,
   can feel the Spirit, hear the call,
   and find the way, the life, the truth,
   revealed in Jesus, freed for all.
   

5. Christ is alive, and comes to bring
   good news to this and every age,
   till earth and sky and ocean ring
   with joy, with justice, love and praise.
   

1975 Hope Publishing Company

1. Jeremiah 17:5-10
2. Luke 6:17-26

CH4 1 How Blest Are Those Who Do Not Stray

(Psalm 1)

1. How blest are those who do not stray,
   led by the wicked's talk;
   who will not with the sinful stand,
   nor sit where scoffers mock.
   

2. The teaching of the Lord their God
   they follow with delight,
   and meditate upon his word
   with gladness day and night.
   

3. They flourish like well-watered trees
   set by a riverside,
   whose fruit matures, whose leaves remain —
   they prosper and abide.
   

4. The wicked, like the straw and chaff
   by wind blown far away,
   can have no place among the just
   nor stand on judgement day.
   

5. The Lord will guard the righteous well,
   he knows the way they take;
   but doomed to perish is the way
   the wicked undertake.
   

Church Hymnary Trust

Message

CH4 362 Heaven Shall Not Wait

1. Heaven shall not wait
   for the poor to lose their patience,
   the scorned to smile, the despised to find a friend:
   Jesus is Lord;
   he has championed the unwanted;
   in him injustice confronts its timely end.
   

2. Heaven shall not wait
   for the rich to share their fortunes,
   the proud to fall, the élite to tend the least:
   Jesus is Lord;
   he has shown the master's privilege ̶
   to kneel and wash servants' feet before they feast.
   

3. Heaven shall not wait
   for the dawn of great ideas,
   thoughts of compassion divorced from cries of pain:
   Jesus is Lord;
   he has married word and action;
   his cross and company make his purpose plain.
   

4. Heaven shall not wait
   for triumphant Hallelujahs,
   when earth has passed and we reach another shore:
   Jesus is Lord
   in our present imperfection;
   his power and love are for now; and then for evermore.
   

1987 WGRG / The Iona Community

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 544 When I Needed a Neighbour

1. When I needed a neighbour
   Were you there, were you there?
   When I needed a neighbour
   Were you there?
   And the creed and the colour
   And the name won't matter
   Were you there?
   

2. I was hungry and thirsty
   Were you there, were you there?
   I was hungry and thirsty
   Were you there?
   And the creed and the colour
   And the name won't matter
   Were you there?
   

3. I was cold, I was naked
   Were you there, were you there?
   I was cold, I was naked
   Were you there?
   And the creed and the colour
   And the name won't matter
   

4. Were you there?
   When I needed a shelter
   Were you there, were you there?
   When I needed a shelter
   Were you there?
   And the creed and the colour
   And the name won't matter
   

5. Were you there?
   Wherever you travel
   I'll be there, I'll be there.
   Wherever you travel
   I'll be there.
   And the creed and the colour
   And the name won't matter
   I'll be there.
   

1965 Stainer & Bell Ltd.

Blessing