Morning Service Sunday 15 May 2022

Welcome and Intimations

Prayer and Lord’s Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power, and the glory
for ever and ever.
Amen.

CH4 656 I Come with Joy

1. I come with joy, a child of God,
   forgiven, loved, and free,
   the life of Jesus to recall,
   in love laid down for me,
   

2. I come with Christians far and near
   to find, as all are fed,
   the new community of love
   in Christ’s communion bread.
   

3. As Christ breaks bread and bids us share,
   each proud division ends.
   The love that made us makes us one,
   and strangers now are friends,
   

4. The spirit of the risen Christ,
   unseen, but ever near,
   is in such friendship better known:
   alive and among us here,
   

© Brian Wren

1. Acts 11:1-18
2. John 13:31-35

Children’s Message

CH4 104 The Lord of Heaven

1. The Lord of heaven confess,
   on high his glory raise.
   Him let all angels bless,
   him all his armies praise.
   Him glorify
   sun, moon and stars;
   ye higher spheres,
   and cloudy sky.
   

2. From God your beings are,
   him therefore famous make;
   you all created were,
   when he the word but spake.
   And from that place,
   where fixed you be
   by his decree,
   you cannot pass.
   

3. Praise God from earth below,
   ye dragons, and ye deeps:
   fire, hail, clouds, wind, and snow,
   whom in command he keeps.
   Praise ye his name,
   hills great and small,
   trees low and tall;
   beasts wild and tame;
   

4. All things that creep or fly.
   ye kings, ye vulgar throng,
   all princes mean or high;
   both men and women young,
   even young and old,
   exalt his name;
   for much his fame
   should be extolled.
   

5. Oh, let God's name be praised
   above both earth and sky;
   for he his saints hath raised,
   and set their horn on high;
   even those that be
   of Israel's race,
   near to his grace.
   The Lord praise ye.
   

© William Henry Havergal

Meditation

Known Unknowns 57 The Web of Love

Tune: Love Unknown

1. Of all that we enjoy
   in harmony with heaven,
   of all our hearts desire,
   of all received and given,
   we cherish most the web God wove
   of costly and inclusive love.
   

2. Such threads diverse combine
   in woman and in man:
   Ruth pledged to Naomi,
   David to Jonathan;
   John laid his head on Jesus’ breast
   whose feet a woman’s tears caressed.
   

3. And Paul, with special care,
   chose poetry over prose
   to celebrate how love affirms,
   endures and grows
   believes the best, embraces pain,
   survives through death to rise again.
   

4. God, make all Christians bold
   to live and love by grace,
   and nurture deep affection
   in this holy place.
   Help all believers to be true
   to how you made them and to you.
   

© John L. Bell and Graham Maule

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 187 There’s a Wideness

1. There’s a wideness in God’s mercy,
   like the wideness of the sea;
   there’s a kindness in his justice,
   which is more than liberty.
   

2. There is no place where earth's sorrows
   are more felt than in God's heaven:
   there is no place where earth's failings
   have such kindly judgment given.
   

3. For the love of God is broader
   than the measure of the mind:
   and the heart of the Eternal
   is most wonderfully kind.
   

4. If our love were but more simple,
   we should take him at his word;
   and our lives be filled with glory
   from the glory of the Lord.
   

© Fredrick William Faber

Blessing