prayer of confession and forgiveness 25082013

Prayers of confession and forgiveness

Take the nail you were given at the start – hold it in your hands, this nail represents the anger we have towards God. When called on please thrown them away in the buckets at the front

(Bold is everyone – normal is me)

We will now pray

I have done wrong lord

I have broken your laws Lord

I have not loved you

I have not loved others

I have judge others

I have rejoiced in their short comings

When they have hurt me I have made careful record

I have stored up their sins against me  

Even you lord

I have grab hold of the time you were not there for me

I have a list of your failing

I even dared to judge you Lord

I have built walls from you

Walls of hate and anger

Walls of judgement and hypocrisy

I have used these walls to hide from you

I have done all of this

And accused you and others for the cost of it

Take your nails brothers and sisters and thrown it way,

This symbol of your hate and angry

This symbol of the poison, of our sickness

Be rid of it

Rid yourself of it

Reject hate and embrace Love

Reject the devil and embrace once more the lord

Come thrown the nails away

Rid me lord of my hate

Rid me lord of my anger

I have no use of it

I have no need of it

It is too much to carry it

It is too much to hold

(congregation come up and thrown the nail away) – organ plays softly and tenderly / what a friend we have in Jesus

You stand forgiven

You stand once more in the palace of the lord

Freed from your anger and hate

You stand once more in harmony with your father

So let us celebrate are forgiveness by the sharing of it

I forgive those who have harmed me

I forgive those who have injured me

I even forgive those who have done evil

I stand forgiven; for the lord have taken my hate

He has replaced it with his saving love

I stand forgiven; for the lord have taken my angry

He has replaced it with his healing mercy 

In stand forgiven cleansed by the blood of Christ

For Gods mercy is greater than are hate

For God’s love is stronger than my anger

For God is worth of adoration

Amen

John 14:6 Oos

Order of service TV

Call to worship: Psalm 119 Verses 41-48 (The Message)

Hymn: Stf 55: Immortal, invisible, God only wise

Prayer of adoration

Prayer of thanks giving

(T1) All age address (what is true?)

·         Show some true / fake thing

Hymn: Stf 477: teach me to dance to the beat of your heart

T2 Talk (or better still testimony) about how Jesus is the truth

Reading: John 14 (altered)

Reading: John 8 (altered)

Hymn Stf 252: Jesus the lord said I am the bread  

T3 Talk on the truth of Jesus (guarantee of salvation)

Hymn: Stf 632: I’ve had question without answers

Lord's prayer

Prayer of confession & forgivness:

Prayers of intercession

Offertory

T4 talk on how Jesus is the truth (different speaker then T2)

Hymn: H&P: Come, ye faithful, raise the anthem

Dismal:

Devotional 26062013

Mark 2 verses 14 - 17

 As He passed by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, “Follow Me!” And he got up and followed Him.

 And it happened that He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many of them, and they were following Him.

When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, “Why is He eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?”

And hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

We sing with all the choirs in heaven:

Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,

heaven and earth are full of your glory.

Hosanna in the highest.

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Hosanna in the highest

How familiar are these words, how often have we said them before the communion table

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the lord

We here gathered are called to go in the name of the lord

The church is called to go forth in the name of the lord

But how often we fail to go anywhere

Christ calls us to go out for the sinners but sinners

Build a house where we like him can sit with sinners

But sometimes it seems we only go out for the saved

That we have built a house only for the saved

So lord we pray this simple prayer:

Lord help us go forth to the lost

Help us past the door and walls we have built

Lord help us see your mission for the lost

Help us see past social convention

Lord help us go in your name

Help us live out this going 

And let us make this simple pledged

I will go in the name of the Lord

I will leave behind the thing of man in the church

I will forsake mans wisdom

I will embrace only the wisdom of the lord

For out there are the people of God

For out there is my mission

For out there the lords has need of me

I pray Lord

Let this be said of me

That I did not live to go to the righteous, but to the sinner

That I went in the name of the lord

That I left what I knew and leapt towards what I did not

That I built a house for sinners, not just the saved 

Oos 9th of June

Order of service for 9^th of June 10:30

Hymn: Stf 51: Great is they faithfulness 

Call to worship: Galatians 1:3-5

Reading: 1 Samuel 1: 21-27

All age address:

Hymn: StF 424 God forgave my sin in Jesus’ name

Reading: Ephesians 1, 3-10

Reading Romans 12 1-2

Sermon:

Hymn: StF: 547 Beyond these walls of worship

Prayer of confession: Interactive

Prayer of thanksgiving for forgiveness

Hymn: StF: 565 Only by grace can we enter

Prayers of intercession

Lord's prayer

Offertory

Hymn: StF 553: I am a new creation

Dismal: Micah 6 8

prayer for passing glory

I stand surrounded by rubble.

Deserted, abandoned, left a remnant.

Alone, Lord I stand, naked against the wind

I am defenceless against the onslaught of barbed words

Day and night they mock you

Night and day they slander you

Without ceasing they mock your mercy

They call you gone; They say you are a lie

It feels that none can see you

It feels that none can heard you

It feels like the end

Do you still call lord?

Do you still call us?

Do you still love us?

Do you still love me?

Yet I still remain Lord

Disciple, sheep, faithful, remnant

I still stand here in your love and mercy

If I alone remain, your glory to fulfil

For you came and died for me

So I shall live for you.

I shall standalone if you call to me

I shall preach your glory is you ask it of me

I shall give my life lord if you but ask for it

I make this pledged to you lord:

Wherever I am lord you will have your church

 wherever I speak you will find your living word

 wherever I act in your name you will have your kingdom

200 words on Mrs T.

Ephesians 6: 14-17

In 1976 our country could not provide power for more than three days in a row, our rubbish entombed us and even our dead could find no rest. We had been forced to beg the IMF for funds and trade unions had brought down one out of two democratic government.

Who would pick take up the shield of faith and the sword of the Spirit and fight for the UK?  

Mrs T.

Mrs T first battle was with the unions, they had taken down government before but she was not for turning, she had the stomach for the fight.  Handbag in hand at the Battle of Orgreave she destroyed the N.U.M. and the dictatorial powers of the union barons.

She then had to defend British sovereignty; her first battle was over the Falklands, her second was against the USSR and her third was against a federal EU.  Two out of 3 is not bad.

Lastly she had to save British plc, she did this by empowering people to own homes, buy shares, start companies and trade internationally or even buy foreign currency.  She is responsible for the modern free Britain we all know 

Morning prayer - lost sheep

Lord I don’t speak as you would have me

I don’t speak out of fear of rejection

I don’t speak for fear of mockery

I don’t because I worry I may lose my faith in you.

I have seen other lose the light you gave them lord

I have seen them reject your holy grace

Am I so different?

I am so strong compared to those?

Am I lost sheep in waiting?

Yes I know you would never stop loving me

Yes I know you would never stop pursuing me

But what If I stopped loving you?

What if I ran from you lord?

My faith must be weak – I have these doubts

My faith must be small for I fear losing it

My faith must be useless for it has brought no one to you lord

See Lord I art weak and they art mighty

I am faithless and they art eternally faithful  

I am worthless they art beyond worth

So if you have some time keep an eye on me lord

Keep your hand on my shoulder

Keep your spirit in me

Don’t let me lose your herd

Don’t let your light go out in me

Do this for your love of me

Do this in your endless mercy

Do this because your strength never fails

Do this please lord

Do this