Morning Service Sunday 24 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 364 All Glory, Laud and Honour

1. You are the King of Israel,
   great David’s royal Son,
   now in the Lord’s name coming,
   our King and Blessèd One.
   

   All glory, laud, and honour,
   to you, Redeemer, King,
   to whom the lips of children
   made sweet hosannas ring!
   

2. The company of angels
   is praising you on high,
   while we and all creation
   together make reply.
   

   All glory, laud, and honour,
   to you, Redeemer, King,
   to whom the lips of children
   made sweet hosannas ring!
   

3. The people of the Hebrews
   with palms before you went;
   our praise and prayer and anthems
   before you we present.
   

   All glory, laud, and honour,
   to you, Redeemer, King,
   to whom the lips of children
   made sweet hosannas ring!
   

4. To you before your Passion
   they sang their hymns of praise;
   to you, now high exalted,
   our melody we raise.
   

   All glory, laud, and honour,
   to you, Redeemer, King,
   to whom the lips of children
   made sweet hosannas ring!
   

5. Their praises you accepted;
   accept the prayers we bring,
   in every good delighting,
   our great and gracious King:
   

   All glory, laud, and honour,
   to you, Redeemer, King,
   to whom the lips of children
   made sweet hosannas ring!
   

1. Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29
2. Mark 11:1-11

CH4 366 Come into the Streets

1. Come into the streets with me!
   Come to where the crowds will be,
   see a strange and gentle king
   on a donkey travelling.
   

   Come and follow my leader,
   come and follow my leader,
   Jesus Christ is riding by,
   come and follow my leader!
   

2. All the people shout his name,
   waving branches, sing his fame,
   throw their coats upon his road,
   glad to praise the Son of God.
   

   Come and follow my leader,
   come and follow my leader,
   Jesus Christ is riding by,
   come and follow my leader!
   

3. If the soldiers draw their swords,
   will we dare to sing these words,
   be his friends for just a day,
   cheer him on, then run away?
   

   Come and follow my leader,
   come and follow my leader,
   Jesus Christ is riding by,
   come and follow my leader!
   

4. Jesus goes where things are rough,
   Jesus knows when life is tough,
   always comes to us, his friends,
   so his story never ends.
   

   Come and follow my leader,
   come and follow my leader,
   Jesus Christ is riding by,
   come and follow my leader!
   

1992 Hope Publishing Company

Meditation

CH4 367 Hosanna, Loud Hosanna

1. Hosanna, loud hosanna,
   the little children sang;
   through city street and temple
   their joyful welcome rang.
   They shouted out their praises
   to Christ, the children's friend,
   who welcomes all with blessing,
   whose love will never end.
   

2. From Olivet they followed,
   a large exultant crowd,
   the victor palm branch waving,
   and chanting clear and loud;
   bright angels joined the chorus,
   beyond the cloudless sky,
   'Hosanna in the highest!
   Glory to God on high!'
   

3. "Hosanna in the highest!"
   That ancient song we sing,
   for Christ is our Redeemer,
   the Lord of heaven our King.
   Oh, may we ever praise him
   with heart and life and voice,
   and in his blissful presence
   eternally rejoice.
   

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 399 My Song Is Love Unknown

1. My song is love unknown,
   my Savior’s love to me,
   love to the loveless shown, that they might lovely be.
   Oh, who am I, that for my sake
   my Lord should take frail flesh, and die?
   

2. He came from his blest throne,
   salvation to bestow:
   but people scorned, and none the longed-for Christ would know.
   But O my Friend, my Friend indeed,
   who at my need his life did spend!
   

3. Sometimes they strew his way,
   and his strong praises sing;
   resounding all the day hosannas to their King.
   Then 'Crucify!' is all their breath,
   and for his death they thirst and cry.
   

4. Why, what hath my Lord done?
   What makes this rage and spite?
   He made the lame to run, he gave the blind their sight.
   Sweet injuries! Yet they at these
   themselves displease, and 'gainst him rise.
   

5. They rise, and needs will have
   my dear Lord made away;
   a murderer they save, the Prince of Life they slay.
   Yet cheerful he to suffering goes,
   that he his foes from thence might free.
   

6. In life, no house, no home
   my Lord on earth might have;
   in death, no friendly tomb but what a stranger gave.
   What may I say? Heaven was his home:
   but mine the tomb wherein he lay.
   

7. Here might I stay and sing:
   no story so divine;
   never was love, dear King, never was grief like thine!
   This is my Friend, in whose sweet praise
   I all my days could gladly spend.
   

Blessing