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Welcome to Worship 20th September 2020 11.00am Online 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. Call to worship Sing of the Lord’s goodness, Father of all wisdom, come to him and bless his name. Mercy he has shown us, his love is for ever, faithful to the end of days. Come then, all you nations, melodies of praise and thanks to God. Ring out the Lord’s glory, praise him with your music, worship him and bless his name. Power he has wielded, honour is his garment, risen from the snares of death. His word he has spoken, one bread he has broken, new life he now gives to all. Come then, all you nations, melodies of praise and thanks to God. Ring out the Lord’s glory, praise him with your music, worship him and bless his name. Courage in our darkness, comfort in our sorrow, Spirit of our God most high; solace for the weary, pardon for the sinner, splendour of the living God. Come then, all you nations, melodies of praise and thanks to God. Ring out the Lord’s glory,
praise him with your music, worship him and bless his name. Praise him with your singing, praise him with the trumpet, praise God with the lute and harp; praise him with the cymbals, praise him with your dancing, praise God till the end of days. Come then, all you nations, melodies of praise and thanks to God. Ring out the Lord’s glory, praise him with your music, worship him and bless his name. Prayer All age address I'M GONNA JUMP UP AND DOWN, Gonna spin right around, Gonna praise Your Name forever. Gonna shout out loud, Gonna deafen the crowd, Gonna send my praise to heaven. I will run this race and I will never stop. I'll follow Jesus till the day I drop. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. When you've got such a lot, When you've got not a lot, What? Be happy!
Reading:
Exodus 16:2-15
Be still my soul Reading
St Matthew 20:1-16
All I once held dear, built my life upon, all this world reveres, and wars to own, all I once thought gain I have counted loss; spent and worthless now, compared to this: Knowing you, Jesus, knowing you, there is no greater thing. You’re my all, you’re the best, you’re my joy, my righteousness, and I love you, Lord. Now my heart’s desire is to know you more, to be found in you and known as yours, to possess by faith what I could not earn, all-surpassing gift of righteousness. Knowing you, Jesus, knowing you, there is no greater thing. You’re my all, you’re the best, you’re my joy, my righteousness, and I love you, Lord. Oh, to know the power of your risen life, and to know you in your sufferings, to become like you in your death, my Lord, so with you to live and never die. Knowing you, Jesus, knowing you, there is no greater thing. You’re my all, you’re the best, you’re my joy, my righteousness, and I love you, Lord. Prayer of Intercession Inspired by love and anger, disturbed by need and pain, informed of God's own bias, we ponder once again: 'How long must some folk suffer? How long can few folk mind? How long dare vain self-interest
turn prayer and pity blind?' From those for ever victims of heartless human greed, their cruel plight composes a litany of need: 'Where are the fruits of justice? Where are the signs of peace? When is the day when prisoners and dreams find their release?' From those for ever shackled to what their wealth can buy, the fear of lost advantage provokes the bitter cry, 'Don't query our position! Don't criticise our wealth! Don't mention those exploited by politics and stealth!' God asks, 'Who will go for me? Who will extend my reach? And who, when few will listen, will prophesy and preach? And who, when few bid welcome, will offer all they know? And who, when few dare follow, will walk the road I show?' Amused in someone's kitchen, asleep in someone's boat, attuned to what the ancients exposed, proclaimed, and wrote, a saviour without safety, a tradesman without tools has come to tip the balance with fishermen and fools. Sermon
Prayer of Dedication In Christ alone my hope is found; He is my light, my strength, my song; This cornerstone, this solid ground, Firm through the fiercest drought and storm. What heights of love, what depths of peace, When fears are stilled, when strivings cease! My comforter, my all in all— Here in the love of Christ I stand. In Christ alone, Who took on flesh, Fullness of God in helpless babe! This gift of love and righteousness, Scorned by the ones He came to save. Till on that cross as Jesus died, The wrath of God was satisfied; For ev'ry sin on Him was laid— Here in the death of Christ I live. There in the ground His body lay, Light of the world by darkness slain; Then bursting forth in glorious day, Up from the grave He rose again! And as He stands in victory, Sin's curse has lost its grip on me; For I am His and He is mine— Bought with the precious blood of Christ. No guilt in life, no fear in death— This is the pow'r of Christ in me; From life's first cry to final breath, Jesus commands my destiny. No pow'r of hell, no scheme of man, Can ever pluck me from His hand; Till He returns or calls me home— Here in the pow'r of Christ I'll stand
Benediction