Morning Service 26-4-2020

APPROACH TO GOD
(we are conscious that we are coming into God’s presence)

Call to Worship                 

Praise: Hymn 33 O Worship the King

1 O worship the King, all-glorious above; O gratefully sing His power and His love: our shield and defender, the Ancient of Days, pavilioned in splendour and girded with praise!

2 O tell of His might!  O sing of His grace, whose robe is the light, whose canopy space! His chariots of wrath the deep thunder clouds form, and dark is His path on the wings of the storm.

4 Your bountiful care what tongue can recite? It breathes in the air, it shines in the light, it streams from the hills, it descends to the plain, and sweetly distils in the dew and the rain.

5 Frail children of dust and feeble as frail, in You do we trust, nor find You to fail; Your mercies how tender, how firm to the end; our maker, defender, redeemer and friend!

Prayer of Adoration and Confession

Assurance of Pardon         

Affirmation of Faith: 1 Cor 15:3-8, 20-22

We Believe –

that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, and last of all he appeared to Paul, as to one abnormally born.

We Believe –

Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

THANKSGIVING
(we thank God for his faithfulness to us)

Praise & Offering: Sing Psalms 130

1 LORD, from the depths I call to you;  2  Lord, hear me from on high   And give attention to my voice    when I for mercy cry.

 3 LORD, in your presence who can stand,    if you our sins record?  4 But yet forgiveness is with you,    that we may fear you, LORD.  

 5 I wait—my soul waits—for the LORD;    my hope is in his word.  6 More than the watchman waits for dawn    my soul waits for the Lord.

 7 O Isr’el, put your hope in God,    for mercy is with him  8 And full redemption.  From their sins    his people he’ll redeem.

Prayer of Intercession

THE WORD OF GOD
(we hear God’s Word read and preached)

Scripture Reading: Colossians 2: 6-19

Foundations of Faith –      Q 30,31,32 

Praise: Hymn 34 There are hundreds of sparrows

1 There are hundreds of sparrows, thousands, millions, they’re two a penny, far too many there must be; there are hundreds and thousands, millions of sparrows, but God knows every one and God knows me.

2 There are hundreds of flowers, thousands, millions, and flowers fair the meadows wear for all to see; there are hundreds and thousands, millions of flowers, but God knows every one and God knows me.

3 There are hundreds of planets, thousands, millions, way out in space each has a place by God’s decree; there are hundreds and thousands, millions of planets, but God knows every one and God knows me.

4 There are hundreds of children, thousands, millions, and yet their names are written on God’s memory, there are hundreds and thousands, millions of children, but God knows every one and God knows me, but God knows every one and God knows me

Sermon

RESPONSE TO THE WORD
(we respond to the Word of God)

Prayer

Praise: O the deep deep love of Jesus

1 O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free,
rolling as a mighty ocean
in its fullness over me.
Underneath me, all around me,
is the current of thy love;
leading onward, leading homeward,
to thy glorious rest above.

2 O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
Spread his praise from shore to shore;
how he loveth, ever loveth,
changeth never, nevermore;
how he watches o’er his loved ones,
died to call them all his own;
how for them he intercedeth,
watcheth o’er them from the throne.

3 O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
Love of ev’ry love the best:
’tis an ocean vast of blessing,
’tis a haven sweet of rest.
O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
‘Tis a heav’n of heav’ns to me;
and it lifts me up to glory,
for it lifts me up to thee.

Benediction