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Welcome to Worship 20th October 2020 11.00am Online Minister: Rev. David S. Cameron Student Assistant: Steven Owens 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 Call to worship Hymn 147 All creatures of our God and King, lift up your voice and with us sing alleluia, alleluia! Bright brother sun with golden beam, clear sister moon with softer gleam: O praise him, O praise him, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Swift rushing wind, so wild and strong, high clouds that sail in heaven along, O praise him, alleluia! New-breaking dawn, in praise rejoice, and lights of evening, find a voice: O praise him, O praise him, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Cool flowing water, pure and clear, make music for your Lord to hear, Alleluia, alleluia! Fire, with your flames so fierce and bright, giving to all both warmth and light: O praise him, O praise him, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Dear mother earth, who day by day unfolds God’s blessings on our way, O praise him, alleluia! All flowers and fruits that in you grow, let them his glory also show: O praise him, O praise him, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! And all who are of tender heart, forgiving others, take your part, O praise him, alleluia! All who long pain and sorrow bear, praise God and cast on him your care: O praise him, O praise him, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Let all things their Creator bless, and worship God in humbleness, O praise him, alleluia! Praise, praise the Father, praise the Son, and praise the Spirit, Three in One: O praise him, O praise him, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Prayer All age address Hymn 448 Lord, the light of your love is shining in the midst of the darkness, shining; Jesus, Light of the world, shine upon us, set us free by the truth you now bring us. Shine on me, shine on me. Shine, Jesus, shine, fill this land with the Father’s glory; blaze, Spirit, blaze, set our hearts on fire.
Flow, river flow, flood the nations with grace and mercy; send forth your word, Lord, and let there be light! Lord I come to your awesome presence, from the shadows into your radiance; by your blood I may enter your brightness, search me try me, consume all my darkness. Shine on me, shine on me. Shine, Jesus, shine, fill this land with the Father’s glory; blaze, Spirit, blaze, set our hearts on fire. Flow, river flow, flood the nations with grace and mercy; send forth your word, Lord, and let there be light! As we gaze on you kingly brightness, so our faces display your likeness, ever changing from glory to glory, mirrored here may our lives tell your story. Shine on me, shine on me. Shine, Jesus, shine, fill this land with the Father’s glory; blaze, Spirit, blaze, set our hearts on fire. Flow, river flow, flood the nations with grace and mercy; send forth your word, Lord, and let there be light! Reading:
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10
My Song is love unknown Reading:
St Matthew 22:15-22
Hymn 561 Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God; born of his Spirit, washed in his blood. This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long. This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long. Perfect submission, perfect delight, visions of rapture burst on my sight; angels descending bring from above echoes of mercy, whispers of love. This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long. This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long. Perfect submission, all is at rest, I in my Saviour am happy and blest; watching and waiting, looking above, filled with his goodness, lost in his love. This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long. This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long. Prayer of Intercession Hymn 470 Jesus shall reign where’er the sun does its successive journeys run; his Kingdom stretch from shore to shore, till moons shall wax and wane no more. People and realms of every tongue declare his love in sweetest song; and infant voices shall proclaim their early blessings on his name. Blessings abound where Jesus reigns: the prisoners leap to lose their chains, the weary find eternal rest, and all who suffer want are blessed.
Let every creature rise and bring the highest honours to our King; angels descend with songs again, and earth repeat the loud Amen. Sermon Prayer of Dedication Hymn 132 Immortal, invisible, God only wise, in light inaccessible hid from our eyes, most blessèd, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, almighty, victorious, thy great name we praise. Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light, nor wanting, nor wasting, thou rulest in might; thy justice like mountains, high soaring above thy clouds, which are fountains of goodness and love. To all life thou givest, to both great and small; in all life thou livest, the true life of all; we blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree, and wither and perish, but naught changeth thee. Great Father of glory, pure Father of light, thine angels adore thee, all veiling their sight. All praise we would render: O help us to see ‘tis only the splendour of light hideth thee. Benediction