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Order of Service for Sunday 23rd January 2022
Serving The King… in Difficult Days and Uncertain Times
Our theme is Serving the King: Living for Jesus 24/7. Today our focus is on serving God during difficult times. Most of the material in the sermon is from Patrick Sookhdeo’s book ‘Lifting Up the Downcast’.
The service of thanksgiving for Maureen Hudson will be held tomorrow at 10am at Stirlingshire Crematorium and all are welcome.
The Church is Open for prayer this Wednesday from 10am-12noon.
Next Sunday, we hope to meet in church at 11am to worship God and to think more about how we can serve King Jesus in our lives today.
Please send any material for the March-May edition of Steeple News to Eleanor Young at joelley1935@btinternet.com by 1st February.
We are keen to recruit someone with the skills and enthusiasm to take on the role of Health and Safety Co-ordinator. If you are interested in finding out what is involved, please contact Jeanette MacIntyre at jmacintyre@indeglas.co.uk.
We are also looking for a volunteer to ensure we are complying with Food Hygiene rules and requirements. For more information, please speak to Sheila Webster at sheilawebster21@gmail.com.
If you need pastoral care or any extra support, please contact:
Rev. Graham Nash, on 442068 or gpnash@churchofscotland.org.uk
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.
To be in Your presence
To sit at Your feet
Where Your love surrounds me
And makes me complete.
This is my desire, O Lord
This is my desire.
This is my desire, O Lord
This is my desire.
To rest in Your presence
Not rushing away;
To cherish each moment
Here I would stay.
Welcome and notices
Call to worship Isaiah 12.2
Sing to God new songs of worship
All His deeds are marvellous;
He has brought salvation to us
With His hand and holy arm:
He has shown to all the nations
Righteousness and saving power;
He recalled His truth and mercy
To His people Israel.
Sing to God new songs of worship
Earth has seen His victory;
Let the lands of earth be joyful
Praising Him with thankfulness:
Sound upon the harp His praises,
Play to Him with melody;
Let the trumpets sound His triumph,
Show your joy to God the king!
Sing to God new songs of worship
Let the sea now make a noise;
All on earth and in the waters,
Sound your praises to the Lord!
Let the hills be joyful together,
Let the rivers clap their hands,
For with righteousness and justice
He will come to judge the earth.
Prayer of approach to God
Together Time
You put a tune in my heart
You put a song on my lips
When I wake up each morning
You've sewn up my rips
You died on the cross
So I could be set free
I'll show my love to You
As you show Your love to me.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
To You I sing my praise.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
God of mercy and of grace.
You make me want to dance
You make me want to sing
Since I know I'm with You
My heart knows You're its King.
I can speak to You each day
In such a simple way
I just open up my mouth
And all I do is pray.
Your arms open wide
To gather us in
Like a shepherd and his sheep
You save us from sin
You are holy, O Lord
And You reign from above
Still You're here through Your Spirit
And guide us in love.
Bible reading Psalm 42.1-11
How firm a foundation, you saints of the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in His excellent word;
What more can He say than to you He has said,
You who unto Jesus for refuge have fled?
Fear not, He is with you, O be not dismayed;
For He is your God, and will still give you aid;
He'll strengthen you, help you, and cause you to stand,
Upheld by His righteous, omnipotent hand.
In every condition, in sickness, in health,
In poverty's vale, or abounding in wealth;
At home and abroad, on the land, on the sea,
As your days may demand shall your strength ever be.
When through the deep waters He calls you to go,
The rivers of grief shall not you overflow;
For He will be with you in trouble to bless,
And sanctify to you your deepest distress.
The soul that on Jesus has leaned for repose,
He will not, He will not, desert to its foes;
That soul, though all hell should endeavour to shake,
He’ll never, no never, no never forsake.
Sermon
Live a life of…
(1) desire for God
(2) delight in God
(3) dependence on God
(4) devotion to God
My life flows on in endless song
Above earth’s lamentation:
I catch the sweet, though far off, hymn
That hails a new creation.
No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that Rock I'm clinging.
Since Love is Lord of heaven and earth,
How can I keep from singing?
Through all the tumult and the strife,
I hear that music ringing.
It finds an echo in my soul --
How can I keep from singing?
What though my joys and comforts die?
The Lord, my Saviour, liveth.
What though the darkness round me close?
Songs in the night He giveth.
The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart,
A fountain ever springing.
All things are mine since I am His!
How can I keep from singing?
Prayer of thanksgiving and intercession
I know not why God’s wondrous grace
To me hath been made known;
Nor why, unworthy as I am,
He claimed me for His own.
But I know whom I have believed;
And am persuaded that He is able
To keep that which I’ve committed
Unto Him against that day.
I know not how this saving faith
To me He did impart;
Or how believing in His Word
Wrought peace within my heart.
I know not how the Spirit moves,
Convincing men of sin;
Revealing Jesus through the Word,
Creating faith in Him.
I know not what of good or ill
May be reserved for me,
Of weary ways or golden days
Before His face I see.
Benediction
I love You, Lord, for You have delivered me
I love You, Lord, for You have delivered
My soul from death, my feet from stumbling
I will walk in the land of the living.
My soul from death, my feet from stumbling
I will walk in the land of the living.
I will bless You, Lord, for You heard my cry
I reached out my hand and You saved my life.
I will bless You, Lord, for You heard my plea
And the God of Heaven turned His ear to me.
I will bless You, Lord, for unending love
For Your grace and mercy raining down from above
And I will bless You, Lord, to the very end
I will call on You as long as I may live.
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