Morning Service Sunday 17 August 2025

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 160 Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven

1. Praise, my soul, the King of heaven;
   to His feet thy tribute bring;
   ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven,
   who like me His praise should sing?
   Praise Him! Praise Him!
   Praise Him! Praise Him!
   Praise the everlasting King.
   

2. Praise Him for His grace and favour
   to our fathers, in distress;
   praise Him still the same for ever,
   slow to chide, and swift to bless.
   Praise Him! Praise Him!
   Praise Him! Praise Him!
   Glorious in His faithfulness.
   

3. Father-like He tends and spares us;
   well our feeble frame He knows;
   in His hands He gently bears us,
   rescues us from all our foes.
   Praise Him! Praise Him!
   Praise Him! Praise Him!
   Widely as His mercy flows.
   

4. Frail as summer’s flower we flourish;
   blows the wind and it is gone;
   but, while mortals rise and perish,
   God endures unchanging on.
   Praise Him ! Praise Him !
   Praise Him! Prasie Him !
   Praise the high eternal One.
   

5. Angels, help us to adore Him;
   ye behold Him face to face;
   sun and moon, bow down before Him;
   dwellers all in time and space.
   Praise Him! Praise Him!
   Praise Him! Praise Him!
   Praise with us the God of grace.
   

1. Isaiah 5:1-7
2. Luke 12:49-56

CH4 51 God of Hosts, You Chose a Vine

(Psalm 80)

1. God of hosts, you chose a vine
   meant to bear the finest wine,
   set it in a promised land,
   nurtured by your careful hand:
   

2. Like a cedar, it grew strong
   deep its roots, its tendrils long;
   yet, in envy those around
   stripped its branches to the ground.
   

3. Desolate, to God we cry:
   'Spare us from the enemy!'
   God of hosts, turn back again,
   all such wickedness restrain:
   

4. Turn us too, for we have failed,
   faithfulness has not prevailed;
   visit, Lord, and heal your vine,
   on its fruit let glory shine!
   

David Mowbray / Jubilate Publications

Message

CH4 273 O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

1. O come, O come, Emmanuel,
   And ransom captive Israel,
   That mourns in lonely exile here
   Until the Son of God appear.
   

   Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
   Shall come to thee, O Israel.
   

2. O come, o come, thou Lord of might,
   Who to Thy tribes, on Sinai’s height,
   In ancient times didst give the law
   In cloud and majesty and awe.
   

   Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
   Shall come to thee, O Israel.
   

3. O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free
   Thine own from Satan’s tyranny;
   From depths of hell Thy people save,
   And give them victory o’er the grave.
   

   Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
   Shall come to thee, O Israel.
   

4. O come, Thou Key of David, come
   And open wide our heav’nly home;
   Make safe the way that leads on high,
   And close the path to misery.
   

   Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
   Shall come to thee, O Israel.
   

5. O come, Thou Dayspring, come and cheer,
   our spirits by thine advent here;
   Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
   And death’s dark shadows put to flight.
   

   Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
   Shall come to thee, O Israel.
   

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 528 Make Me a Channel of Your Peace

1. Make me a channel of Your peace.
   Where there is hatred let me bring Your love;
   where there is injury, Your pardon, Lord;
   and where there’s doubt, true faith in You.
   

   O Master, grant that I may never seek
   so much to be consoled as to console;
   to be understood as to understand;
   to be loved, as to love with all my soul.
   

2. Make me a channel of Your peace.
   Where there’s despair in life let me bring hope;
   where there is darkness, only light;
   and where there’s sadness, ever joy.
   

   O Master, grant that I may never seek
   so much to be consoled as to console;
   to be understood as to understand;
   to be loved, as to love with all my soul.
   

3. Make me a channel of Your peace.
   It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
   in giving to all men that we receive;
   and in dying that we’re born to eternal life.
   

1967, OCP Publications

Blessing