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Due to the ongoing Covid 19 situation services are limited. However, since Easter Sunday, services have resumed in the church building with limited places which have to be booked by calling 07927 208936 between 10am and and 7pm. Recordings of services will continue to be made available.
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ORDER OF SERVICE
Sunday 26th September 2021
Stewards of God’s Good Creation (2) – Creation’s Groaning
You can watch today’s service live on the Bruce Memorial Church YouTube channel or listen on our website or on CD. We are looking at our responsibility as human beings to care for the planet we inhabit; and as God’s children to do all we can to minimise the effects of climate change and to care for those who are worst affected. We will be borrowing a lot of material from Dave Bookless in his book Planet Wise which is highly recommended. He writes: ‘Caring for creation is essential to following Jesus Christ. It’s not an optional extra, but part of the core of our faith.’
The Wellbeing Group will meet again this Tuesday at 10.30am in the Church Hall. Our guest speaker Mr Byron Tilly is a keen photographer and will present an illustrated talk entitled 'Scotland Great & Small'. Light refreshments will be served. Please wear a mask. Everyone welcome.
We plan to have our Harvest service next Sunday. If you would like to attend, please book a place by phoning 07927 208936 any day between 10am and 7pm. There is an opportunity this Sunday and next to bring donations of non-perishable foodstuffs for Start Up Stirling, our local food bank, and also to make donations through the Halliday Foundation to help refugees from Afghanistan. The items that are requested include: books and board games, toiletries, clothing and trainers, adult rucksacks, pots and pans, kitchen utensils, crockery and bedding (new if possible).
Blythswood Appeal – you can bring your shoeboxes to church from 10th October.
Are you interested in Heartstart Training? A 2-hour class in the Community Centre, led by the Trossachs Search & Rescue Team, designed to share simple life-saving skills, including how to use the defibrillator installed at the Community Centre. If you are interested in attending, please contact Angela Samson, Wellbeing Coordinator.
Instrumental – Come, let us to the Lord our God
Call to worship – Colossians 1.15-17
Thou whose almighty word
Chaos and darkness heard,
And took their flight;
Hear us, we humbly pray,
And where the gospel day
Sheds not its glorious ray
Let there be light.
Thou who didst come to bring
On thy redeeming wing
Healing and sight,
Health to the sick in mind,
Sight to the inly blind,
O now to all mankind
Let there be light.
Spirit of truth and love,
Life-giving, holy Dove,
Speed forth thy flight;
Move o’er the waters’ face,
Bearing the lamp of grace,
And in earth’s darkest place
Let there be light.
Blessed and holy Three,
Glorious Trinity,
Wisdom, Love, Might,
Boundless as ocean’s tide
Rolling in fullest pride,
Through the world far and wide
Let there be light.
Prayer of approach to God
Together Time
(1) Introduction to the Sustainable Development Goals
(2) Trees
My God is so big, so strong and so mighty
There's nothing my God cannot do.
My God is so big, so strong and so mighty
There's nothing my God cannot do.
He made the trees, He made the seas,
He made the elephants too.
My God is so big, so strong and so mighty
There's nothing my God cannot do.
My God is so great, so strong and so mighty
There's nothing my God cannot do.
My God is so great, so strong and so mighty
There's nothing my God cannot do.
The mountains are His, the rivers are His,
The stars are His handiwork too.
My God is so great, so strong and so mighty
There's nothing my God cannot do.
There's nothing my God cannot do.
There's nothing my God cannot do for you!
Bible Readings Genesis 3.1-19
Romans 8.18-25
The world belongs to God
He spoke and there it was
Though it was very good
It all went bad because
The man that God had made
And the woman there with him
Turned their backs on God to get
A deadly taste of sin, but...
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
Jesus is the way
Jesus is the Saviour, you can come to Him today
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
People from their sin
You will find forgiveness
When you put your trust in Him.
Well, if you look around
You’ll see how sin has spread
Turning light to dark
And living things to dead
But God still rules the world
He always had a plan:
To send His Son to save us
In the likeness of a man.
Well if you come to God –
You still have time you know –
He’ll wash your sinful heart
And make it white as snow.
Come taste eternal life
And death will have no sting
All who trust in Jesus
Are the children of the King!
A Fallen World
You’re the Word of God the Father
From before the world began.
Every star and every planet
Has been fashioned by Your hand.
All creation holds together
By the power of Your voice.
Let the skies declare Your glory;
Let the land and seas rejoice!
You’re the Author of creation;
You’re the Lord of every man;
And Your cry of love rings out
Across the lands.
Yet You left the gaze of angels,
Came to seek and save the lost,
And exchanged the joy of heaven
For the anguish of a cross.
With a prayer You fed the hungry;
With a word You stilled the sea;
Yet how silently You suffered
That the guilty may go free!
With a shout You rose victorious,
Wresting victory from the grave,
And ascended into heaven,
Leading captives in Your way.
Now You stand before the Father,
Interceding for Your own;
From each tribe and tongue and nation,
You are leading sinners home!
A Spiritual Crisis
Prayer of thanksgiving and intercession
The Saviour died, but rose again
Triumphant from the grave;
And pleads our cause at God's right hand,
Omnipotent to save.
Who then can e'er divide us more
From Jesus and His love,
Or break the sacred chain that binds
The earth to heaven above?
Let troubles rise, and terrors frown,
And days of darkness fall;
Through Him all dangers we'll defy,
And more than conquer all.
Nor death nor life, nor earth nor hell,
Nor time's destroying sway,
Can e'er efface us from His heart,
Or make His love decay.
Each future period that will bless,
As it has blessed the past;
He loved us from the first of time,
He loves us to the last.
Benediction
Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
Forgive our foolish ways;
Reclothe us in our rightful mind,
In purer lives thy service find,
In deeper reverence, praise.
In simple trust like theirs who heard
Beside the Syrian sea
The gracious calling of the Lord,
Let us, like them, without a word
Rise up and follow thee.
O Sabbath rest by Galilee,
O calm of hills above,
Where Jesus knelt to share with thee
The silence of eternity,
Interpreted by love!
Drop thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of thy peace.
Breathe through the heats of our desire
Thy coolness and thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire,
O still, small voice of calm!
If you need pastoral care or any extra support, please contact:
Rev. Graham Nash, on 442068 or gpnash@churchofscotland.org.uk
14 Woodside Court, Cambusbarron, Stirling FK7 9PH
Angela Samson, our Wellbeing Coordinator on 07977 342022 or
wellbeingangela@gmail.com
Kathleen Davidson, our Pastoral Group leader on 471168
Graeme Fotheringham, our Wellbeing elder on 07887 824055.
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