Morning Service Sunday 17 March 2024

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 111 Holy, Holy, Holy

1. Holy, holy, holy! Lord God almighty!
   Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.
   Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty!
   God in three persons, blessed trinity!
   

2. Holy, holy, holy! All the saints adore thee,
   casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;
   cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee,
   which wert, and art, and evermore shalt be.
   

3. Holy, holy, holy! Though the darkness hide thee,
   though the eye of sinfulness thy glory may not see,
   only thou art holy; there is none beside thee,
   perfect in pow’r, in love, and purity.
   

4. Holy, holy, holy! Lord God almighty!
   All thy works shall praise thy name, in earth, and sky, and sea.
   Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty!
   God in three persons, blessed trinity!
   

1. Hebrews 5:5-10
2. John 12:20-33

CH4 374 From Heaven You Came, Helpless Babe

1. From heaven You came, helpless babe,
   entered our world, Your glory veiled,
   not to be served but to serve,
   and give Your life that we might live.
   

   This is our God, the Servant King,
   He calls us now to follow Him,
   to bring our lives as a daily offering
   of worship to the Servant King.
   

2. There in the garden of tears
   my heavy load He chose to bear;
   His heart with sorrow was torn,
   ‘Yet not my will but yours,’ He said.
   

   This is our God, the Servant King,
   He calls us now to follow Him,
   to bring our lives as a daily offering
   of worship to the Servant King.
   

3. Come see His hands and His feet,
   the scars that speak of sacrifice,
   hands that flung stars into space
   to cruel nails surrendered.
   

   This is our God, the Servant King,
   He calls us now to follow Him,
   to bring our lives as a daily offering
   of worship to the Servant King.
   

4. So let us learn how to serve
   and in our lives enthrone Him,
   each other’s needs to prefer,
   for it is Christ we’re serving.
   

   This is our God, the Servant King,
   He calls us now to follow Him,
   to bring our lives as a daily offering
   of worship to the Servant King.
   

1983 Thankyou Music

Meditation

CH4 356 Meekness and Majesty, Manhood and Deity

1. Meekness and majesty,
   manhood and deity,
   in perfect harmony,
   the man who is God:
   

   Lord of eternity
   dwells in humanity,
   kneels in humility
   and washes our feet.
   

   O what a mystery,
   meekness and majesty:
   bow down and worship,
   for this is your God,
   this is your God!
   

2. Father’s pure radiance,
   perfect in innocence,
   yet learns obedience
   to death on a cross:
   

   Suffering to give us life,
   conquering through sacrifice;
   and, as they crucify,
   prays, ‘Father, forgive.’
   

   O what a mystery,
   meekness and majesty:
   bow down and worship,
   for this is your God,
   this is your God!
   

3. Wisdom unsearchable,
   God the invisible,
   Love indestructible
   in frailty appears.
   

   Lord of infinity;
   stooping so tenderly,
   lifts our humanity
   to the heights of His throne.
   

   O what a mystery,
   meekness and majesty:
   bow down and worship,
   for this is your God,
   this is your God!
   

1986 Make Way Music

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 363 We Have a Gospel to Proclaim

1. We have a gospel to proclaim,
   good news for all throughout the earth;
   the gospel of a Saviour’s name:
   we sing his glory, tell his worth.
   

2. Tell of his birth at Bethlehem,
   not in a royal house or hall
   but in a stable dark and dim:
   the Word made flesh, a light for all.
   

3. Tell of his death at Calvary,
   hated by those he came to save;
   in lonely suffering on the cross
   for all he loved, his life he gave.
   

4. Tell of that glorious Easter morn:
   empty the tomb, for he was free;
   he broke the power of death and hell
   that we might share his victory.
   

5. Tell of his reign at God’s right hand
   by all creation glorified;
   he sends his Spirit on his church
   to live for him, the Lamb who died.
   

6. Now we rejoice to name him King:
   Jesus is Lord of all the earth;
   this gospel-message we proclaim:
   we sing his glory, tell his worth.
   

1968 Edward J. Burns

Blessing