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Welcome to Worship Fifth Sunday of Easter 10th May 2020 Minister: Rev. David S. Cameron Session Clerk: Derek I’Anson Live Stream: Douglas Bryson Organist: Martin C. Sharp
Welcome Welcome to worship. We are delighted you are able to join us on line today and hope you enjoy worshipping with us through your on line connection. This order of service is posted to help you with the live stream. Please ensure you log on through the New Laigh Kirk Website http://www.nlk.church/ and click the button watch live Sunday 11.00am. May God richly bless you sharing with us in this way. Order of Service Welcome Hymn 198
Let us build a house where where love can dwell
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. 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. 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. Prayer All Age Address I wanna do right, wanna do what's right I'm gonna give You all of my life I put my trust in You, Jesus And You'll show me, show me how to do right Hey, hey, every word I say Ooh, ooh, I wanna be like You Oh, my, my, every day goes by I wanna be more like You I wanna be more like You I wanna do right, wanna do what's right I'm gonna give You all of my life I put my trust in You, Jesus And You'll show me, show me how to do right Hey, hey, every word I say Ooh, ooh, I wanna be like You Oh, my, my, every day goes by I wanna be more like You I wanna be more like You I was made to give You praise Make me more like You I was made to give You praise Make me more like You In all I do Hey, hey, every word I say Ooh, ooh, I wanna be like You Oh, my, my, every day goes by I wanna be more like You I wanna be more like You (twice)
Reading:
1 Peter 2:2-10 page 1218
1 Peter 2 New International Version (NIV) 2 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. The Living Stone and a Chosen People 4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house[a] to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For in Scripture it says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”[b] 7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”[c] 8 and, “A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.”[d] They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for. 9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. We’ll meet again for VE Day Reading
St John 14:1-14 page 1082
John 14 New International Version (NIV) Jesus Comforts His Disciples
14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God[a]; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.” Jesus the Way to the Father 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know[b] my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” 8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” 9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
Hymn 642 Ye that know the lord is gracious Ye that know the Lord is gracious, ye for whom a corner stone stands, of God elect and precious, laid that ye may build thereon, see that on that sure foundation ye a living temple raise, towers that may tell forth salvation, walls that may re-echo praise. Living stones, by God appointed each to an allotted place, kings and priests, by God anointed, shall ye not declare his grace? ye, a royal generation, tell the tidings of your birth, tidings of a new creation to an old and weary earth.
Tell the praise of him who called you out of darkness into light, broke the fetters that enthralled you, gave you freedom, peace and sight: tell the tale of sins forgiven, strength renewed and hope restored, till the earth, in tune with heaven, praise and magnify the Lord! Prayer of Intercession Hymn 724
Christ's is the world in which we move
Christ's is the world in which we move; Christ's are the folk we're summoned to love; Christ's is the voice which calls us to care, and Christ is the one who meets us here. To the lost Christ shows his face, to the unloved he gives his embrace, to those who cry in pain or disgrace, Christ makes, with his friends, a touching place Feel for the people we most avoid — strange or bereaved or never employed. Feel for the women and feel for the men who fear that their living is all in vain. To the lost Christ shows his face, to the unloved he gives his embrace, to those who cry in pain or disgrace, Christ makes, with his friends, a touching place Feel for the parents who've lost their child, feel for the women whom men have defiled, feel for the baby for whom there's no breast, and feel for the weary who find no rest. To the lost Christ shows his face, to the unloved he gives his embrace, to those who cry in pain or disgrace, Christ makes, with his friends, a touching place Feel for the lives by life confused, riddled with doubt, in loving abused;
feel for the lonely heart, conscious of sin, which longs to be pure but fears to begin. To the lost Christ shows his face, to the unloved he gives his embrace, to those who cry in pain or disgrace, Christ makes, with his friends, a touching place Sermon Prayer of Dedication Hymn 465
Be thou my vision
Be thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart; naught be all else to me, save that thou art; thou my best thought in the day or the night, waking or sleeping, thy presence my light. Be thou my Wisdom, be thou my true Word; I ever with thee, and thou with me, Lord; thou my great Father: thine own I would be; Thou in me dwelling, and I one with thee. Riches I heed not, nor earth’s empty praise, thou mine inheritance, now and always; thou, and thou only, the first in my heart, High King of Heaven, my treasure thou art. High King of Heaven, after victory won, may I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heaven’s sun! Heart of my own heart, whatever befall’ still be my Vision, O Ruler of all. Benediction Audio Visual and Copyright Licences PPL Church Licence 1630911 PRS for Music Church Licence Church Copyright licence 569416 Music Reproduction licence Church Video licence 889354
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