Wednesday 26 December 2012

Reporting service


Order of service for Reported service


Call to worship: Psalm 22: 3-5


3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;

    you are the one Israel praises.[]

4 In you our ancestors put their trust;

    they trusted and you delivered them.

5 To you they cried out and were saved;

    in you they trusted and were not put to shame.


Hymn: StF 351: In Christ alone

All age address: Have you ever been really ill?


·         Ask them what their parents do to look after them when they’re sick

·         How much better it is to be well

·         God – sent Jesus to heal the sick (all of us)


Hymn: StF 635: My Troubled soul, why so weighed down


Dismissal


Collective Psalm 22: 22,24,26-31

22 I will declare your name to my people;

    in the assembly I will praise you.

24 For he has not despised or scorned

    the suffering of the afflicted one;

he has not hidden his face from him

    but has listened to his cry for help.

26 The poor will eat and be satisfied;

    those who seek the Lord will praise him—

    may your hearts live forever!

27 All the ends of the earth

    will remember and turn to the Lord,

and all the families of the nations

    will bow down before him,

28 for dominion belongs to the Lord

    and he rules over the nations.

29 All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;

    all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—

    those who cannot keep themselves alive.

30 Posterity will serve him;

    future generations will be told about the Lord.

31 They will proclaim his righteousness,

    declaring to a people yet unborn:

    He has done it!



Prayer of adoration / thanksgiving


Hymn  287: When I survey the wondrous cross


Reading: Mark 15: 33-38


Reading: Mark 2: 13-17


Reading: Mark 8:34-38


Sermon:

·         We are all sick

·         We all feel forsaken by God

·         Jesus knows our pains

·         He heals the sick

·         Cross is strength not suffering



Hymn: Old rugged cross


Collective Psalm 22: 1-2, 6-11, 19

1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

    Why are you so far from saving me,

    so far from my cries of anguish?

2 My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,

    by night, but I find no rest.[b]

6 But I am a worm and not a man,

    scorned by everyone, despised by the people.

7 All who see me mock me;

    they hurl insults, shaking their heads.

8 “He trusts in the Lord,” they say,

    “let the Lord rescue him.

Let him deliver him,

    since he delights in him.”

9 Yet you brought me out of the womb;

    you made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast.

10 From birth I was cast on you;

    from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

11 Do not be far from me,

    for trouble is near

    and there is no one to help.

19 But you, Lord, do not be far from me.

    You are my strength; come quickly to help me.


Prayers of confession / forgiveness


Prayers of intercession


Lord's prayer


Offertory


Hymn: 345: And can it be


Dismal

Sunday 9 December 2012

Oos 23122012


Order of service for December 23rd, Caversham heights, 10.30am

Call to worship: Titus 3 4-7


Advent liturgy

Hymn: H&P 232 Tell me the old, old story

Prayer of adoration

All age address: what is your favourite story?

·         This is a story of salvation
·         Birth of gods kingdom on earth

Prayer of thanksgiving

Hymn StF 627: Everyone needs compassion

Short welcome for peace candle: Isaiah 9: 6-7
Peace candle lit
Dismissal
Reading Luke 2 4-20 (can be done in two parts)
Prayers of confession / forgiveness
Hymn: StF 202 Hark the herald-angels sing

Sermon: true story of Christmas
Prayers for the coming of the kingdom

Hymn StF 216 See him lying on a bed of straw

Prayers for the housebound
Prayers of intercession
Lord's prayer
Offertory

Hymn: H&P 135 Go tell in on the Mountain
Dismal