Morning Service Sunday 27 April 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 417 Now the Green Blade Riseth

1. Now the green blade riseth, from the buried grain,
   Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain;
   Love lives again, that with the dead has been:
   Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.
   

2. In the grave they laid Him, Love who had been slain,
   Thinking that He never would awake again,
   Laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen:
   Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.
   

3. Forth He came at Easter, like the risen grain,
   Jesus who for three days in the grave had lain;
   Quick from the dead the risen One is seen:
   Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.
   

4. When our hearts are wintry, grieving, or in pain,
   Jesus' touch can call us back to life again,
   Fields of our hearts that dead and bare have been:
   Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.
   

1928 Oxford University Press

1. Psalm 118:14-29
2. Acts 5:27-32

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

Message

CH4 620 Spirit of the Living God, Move Among Us All

Sing twice.

1. Spirit of the living God,
   move among us all;
   make us one in heart and mind,
   make us one in love,
   humble, caring,
   selfless, sharing.
   Spirit of the living God,
   fill our lives with love.
   

Michael Baughen

COMMUNION

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 673 Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ

1. Let us talents and tongues employ,
   reaching out with a shout of joy:
   bread is broken, the wine is poured,
   Christ is spoken and seen and heard.
   Jesus lives again; earth can breathe again.
   Pass the Word around: loaves abound!
   

2. Christ is able to make us one,
   at his table, he set the tone,
   teaching people to live to bless,
   love in word and in deed express.
   Jesus lives again; earth can breathe again.
   Pass the Word around: loaves abound!
   

3. Jesus calls us in, sends us out
   bearing fruit in a world of doubt,
   gives us love to tell, bread to share:
   God (Immanuel) everywhere!
   Jesus lives again; earth can breathe again.
   Pass the Word around: loaves abound!
   

1975 Hope Publishing Company

Blessing