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Sunday 28^th July 2024

The Real Messiah (1)

Welcome to worship! Today’s service is led by Pauline, our Session Clerk, and members of the congregation. The sermon will be from Chris Wright, first preached at All Souls, Langham Place in September 2021. All are welcome to stay for tea and coffee in the Hall afterwards.

The funeral service for Mrs Elizabeth Conway will be held in church this Friday at 11am, and then to St Thomas’ Cemetery for the committal.

Ukulele Group for beginners Tuesdays from 5-6pm in the Hall.

Next Sunday we continue our 3-part series on The Real Messiah. The reading will be Luke 7.11-17 and Richard East will be the preacher.

Donations for Start Up Stirling are welcome e.g. tinned soup and fruit.

Graham will be on holiday until 12^th August. Pastoral cover this week will be provided by Rev Scott McInnes (Stirling: North). He can be contacted on 01786 463376 or at smcinnes@churchofscotland.org.uk.

Today is the deadline for articles for the next edition of Steeple News. Please give to Eleanor Young or email joelley1935@btinternet.com

We are about to undertake a modernisation of the manse to include replacement windows and upgraded bathrooms. While we have sufficient funds to cover the cost of this work it does mean dipping into our reserves. If any of the congregation would wish to help by way of financial donation, please place an envelope in the collection box addressed to the Treasurer marked ‘manse upgrade’.

Rev. Graham Nash: 01786 442068 or gpnash@churchofscotland.org.uk Angela Samson: 07977 342022 or wellbeingangela@gmail.com

Pauline Perry: 07379 487427 or sessionclerkcbm@aol.com

Call to worship Psalm 27.1 and 4 (p.557)

Let us build a house where love can dwell CH4 198

And all can safely live,

A place where saints and children tell

How hearts learn to forgive;

Built of hopes and dreams and visions,

Rock of faith and vault of grace;

Here the love of Christ shall end divisions:

All are welcome, all are welcome,

All are welcome in this place.

Let us build a house where prophets speak,

And words are strong and true,

Where all God's children dare to seek

To dream God's reign anew.

Here the cross shall stand as witness

And as symbol of God's grace;

Here as one we claim the faith of Jesus:

Let us build a house where hands will reach

Beyond the wood and stone

To heal and strengthen, serve and teach,

And live the Word they've known.

Here the outcast and the stranger

Bear the image of God's face;

Let us bring an end to fear and danger:

Let us build a house where all are named,

Their songs and visions heard

And loved and treasured, taught and claimed

As words within the Word.

Built of tears and cries and laughter,

Prayers of faith and songs of grace,

Let this house proclaim from floor to rafter:

Prayer of approach to God

Together Time

O Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder MP 506

Consider all the works thy hands hath made,

I see the stars, I hear the mighty thunder,

Thy power throughout the universe displayed;

Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to thee:

How great thou art! How great thou art!

Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to thee:

How great thou art! How great thou art!

When through the woods and forest glades I wander,

And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees;

When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur

And hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze;

And when I think that God, His Son not sparing,

Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in,

That on the cross my burden gladly bearing

He bled and died to take away my sin;

When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation

And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart!

Then I shall bow in humble adoration

And there proclaim: “My God, how great thou art!”

Bible reading Luke 7.1-10 (p.1035)

O soul, are you weary and troubled? MP 712

No light in the darkness you see?

There’s light for a look at the Savior,

And life more abundant and free!

Turn your eyes upon Jesus,

Look full in His wonderful face,

And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,

In the light of His glory and grace.

Through death into life everlasting,

He passed, and we follow Him there;

O’er us sin no more has dominion

For more than conquerors we are!

His Word shall not fail you He promised;

Believe Him, and all will be well:

Then go to a world that is dying,

His perfect salvation to tell!

Sermon An Outsider's Amazing Faith

Jesus shall reign where'er the sun MP 379

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'er He 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!

Prayer of thanksgiving and intercession

Come, O Fount of every blessing MP 1164

Tune my heart to sing Your grace;

Streams of mercy, never ceasing,

Call for songs of loudest praise:

Songs of God’s abundant treasure,

Sung by angel tongues above,

Songs that tell the boundless measure

Of my Lord’s unchanging love!

I remember God’s great mercy:

By His help I’ve safely come;

And I know He will not fail me,

But will surely bring me home.

Jesus sought me when a stranger

Wandering far away from God,

And, to rescue me from danger,

Shed for me His precious blood.

Through God’s grace I am His debtor –

Daily I this thought renew!

Let that grace, Lord, like a fetter

Bind my wandering heart to You.

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,

Prone to leave the God I love!

Take my heart, O take and seal it,

Seal it from Your courts above!

Blessing

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