Morning Service Sunday 29 June 2025

WE WELCOME Mr. David Wilkie, Reader in the Presbytery of Edinburgh and West Lothian, as our worship leader today.

Welcome

Call to worship

MP 708 To God Be the Glory!

1. To God be the glory!
   great things He hath done;
   so loved He the world
   that He gave us His Son;
   who yielded His life
   an atonement for sin,
   and opened the life gate
   that all may go in.
   

   Praise the Lord, praise the Lord!
   let the earth hear His voice;
   praise the Lord, praise the Lord!
   let the people rejoice:
   O come to the Father,
   through Jesus the Son
   and give Him the glory;
   great things He hath done!
   

2. O perfect redemption,
   the purchase of blood!
   to every believer the promise of God;
   the vilest offender who truly believes,
   that moment from Jesus
   a pardon receives.
   Praise the Lord ...
   

   Praise the Lord, praise the Lord!
   let the earth hear His voice;
   praise the Lord, praise the Lord!
   let the people rejoice:
   O come to the Father,
   through Jesus the Son
   and give Him the glory;
   great things He hath done!
   

3. Great things He hath taught us,
   great things He hath done,
   and great our rejoicing
   through Jesus the Son;
   but purer, and higher,
   and greater will be
   our wonder, our rapture,
   when Jesus we see.
   

   Praise the Lord, praise the Lord!
   let the earth hear His voice;
   praise the Lord, praise the Lord!
   let the people rejoice:
   O come to the Father,
   through Jesus the Son
   and give Him the glory;
   great things He hath done!
   

Prayer of Adoration 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.

First Thoughts

MP 272 I Have Decided to Follow Jesus

1. I have decided to follow Jesus;
   I have decided to follow Jesus;
   I have decided to follow Jesus;
   No turning back, no turning back.
   

2. Tho' none go with me, I still will follow,
   Tho' none go with me I still will follow,
   Tho' none go with me, I still will follow;
   No turning back, no turning back.
   

3. The world behind me, the cross before me,
   The world behind me, the cross before me;
   The world behind me, the cross before me;
   No turning back, no turning back.
   

4. Will you decide now to follow Jesus?
   Will you decide now to follow Jesus?
   Will you decide now to follow Jesus?
   no turning back, no turning back.
   

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1. Galatians 5 vv 1, 13 - 25
2. Luke 9 vv 51 - 62

MP 111 Dear Lord and Father of Mankind

1. Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
   forgive our foolish ways!
   Reclothe us in our rightful mind;
   in purer lives Thy service find,
   in deeper rev'rence, praise.
   

2. 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.
   

3. O Sabbath rest by Galilee!
   O calm of hills above,
   where Jesus knelt to share with Thee
   the silence of eternity,
   interpreted by love!
   

4. With that deep hush subduing all,
   our words and works that drown,
   the tender whisper of Thy call,
   as noiseless let the blessing fall,
   as fell Thy manna down.
   

5. 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.
   

6. 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!

Reflection

CH4 533 Will You Come and Follow Me?

1. Will you come and follow me if I but call your name?
   Will you go where you don't know and never be the same?
   Will you let my love be shown? Will you let my name be known,
   will you let my life be grown in you and you in me?
   

2. Will you leave yourself behind if I but call your name?
   Will you care for cruel and kind and never be the same?
   Will you risk the hostile stare should your life attract or scare?
   Will you let me answer prayer in you and you in me?
   

3. Will you let the blinded see if I but call your name?
   Will you set the prisoners free and never be the same?
   Will you kiss the leper clean and do such as this unseen,
   and admit to what I mean in you and you in me?
   

4. Will you love the "you" you hide if I but call your name?
   Will you quell the fear inside and never be the same?
   Will you use the faith you've found to reshape the world around,
   through my sight and touch and sound in you and you in me?
   

5. Lord your summons echoes true when you but call my name.
   Let me turn and follow you and never be the same.
   In Your company I'll go where Your love and footsteps show.
   Thus I'll move and live and grow in you and you in me.
   

1987 WGRG, Iona Community

Intimations

Prayer of Thanksgiving and Intercession

MP 25 All to Jesus, I Surrender

1. All to Jesus I surrender,
   All to Him I freely give;
   I will ever love and trust Him,
   In His presence daily live.
   

   I surrender all, I surrender all.
   All to Thee, my blessed Savior,
   I surrender all.
   

2. All to Jesus I surrender,
   Humbly at His feet I bow,
   Worldly pleasures all forsaken,
   Take me, Jesus, take me now.
   

   I surrender all, I surrender all.
   All to Thee, my blessed Savior,
   I surrender all.
   

3. All to Jesus I surrender,
   Make me, Savior, wholly Thine;
   Let me feel the Holy Spirit,
   Truly know that Thou art mine.
   

   I surrender all, I surrender all.
   All to Thee, my blessed Savior,
   I surrender all.
   

4. All to Jesus I surrender,
   Lord I give myself to Thee;
   Fill me with Thy love and power,
   Let Thy blessing fall on me.
   

   I surrender all, I surrender all.
   All to Thee, my blessed Savior,
   I surrender all.
   

5. All to Jesus I surrender,
   Now I feel the sacred flame;
   O the joy of full salvation!
   Glory, glory to His name.
   

   I surrender all, I surrender all.
   All to Thee, my blessed Savior,
   I surrender all.
   

Benediction