Edinburgh Northwest Kirk
MORNING WORSHIP
SUNDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2024
10.00 am
Lay-Led Team : Emma McMillan, LJ Forrest & Anne Mather
Organist : Simon Bertram
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The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all
(congregation to stand as the Bible is brought into church)
WELCOME & INTIMATIONS
CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows his handiwork. We come now, into this sacred space, to worship God:
All: whose laws are perfect, converting our souls; whose testimony is sure, making wise the simple; whose statutes are right, rejoicing our hearts; whose commandments are pure, enlightening our eyes.
Leader: We come with holy fear, in the presence of God, who endures forever;
All: whose judgements are true, and righteous altogether, desiring all this more than fine gold, or the sweetest honey.
Leader: Come – let us worship God,
All: and let the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be according to Your will. Amen
HYMN 152 Praise the Lord, his glories show
PRAYER OF APPROACH AND CONFESSION
THE LORD’S PRAYER
ALL AGE TALK
HYMN 143 Who put the colours in the rainbow?
FIRST READING Psalm 19 Gillian Hewitt
ANTHEM Be still for the presence of the Lord David J Evans
SECOND READING Mark 8 : 27 - 38
HYMN
All the wonder that surrounds us
springs from God’s care:
all that marvels or confounds us,
raw, rich or rare;
touch and texture, sights and voices,
nature’s countless forms and choices:
all for which the heart rejoices
springs from God’s care.
Every creature, every human
lives by God’s grace:
every family, man and woman,
culture and race:
those whom fortune seems to favour,
those exploited for their labour,
those who need to know a neighbour
live by God’s Grace.
How can we revere God’s goodness
meant for all time?
How ensure that each uniqueness
keeps in its prime?
How shall we revere with pleasure
all God gives for life and leisure,
how preserve that earthly treasure
meant for all time?
God has willed that peace and justice
walk hand in hand.
These, with love, shall build foundations
on which we’ll stand:
love for lover, friend and stranger,
love defying death and danger,
love as first born in a manger –
heaven close at hand.
TALK
DOXOLOGY
Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Praise God, all creatures here below;
Praise God for all that love has done;
Creator, Christ, and Spirit, One. Amen.
HYMN 243 Touch the earth lightly
PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING & FOR OTHERS
HYMN 153 Great is thy faithfulness
BLESSING Amen, amen, alleluia, amen
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