Morning Service Sunday 4 January 2026

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 198 Let Us Build a House

1. Let us build a house where love can dwell
   and all can safely live,
   a place where saints and children tell
   how hearts learn to forgive;
   built of hopes and dreams and visions,
   rock of faith and vault of grace;
   here the love of Christ shall end divisions:
   

   All are welcome, all are welcome,
   all are welcome in this place.
   

2. Let us build a house where prophets speak,
   and words are strong and true,
   where all God’s children dare to seek
   to dream God’s reign anew.
   Here the cross shall stand as witness
   and as symbol of God’s grace;
   here as one we claim the faith of Jesus:
   

   All are welcome, all are welcome,
   all are welcome in this place.
   

3. Let us build a house where love is found
   in water, wine and wheat:
   a banquet hall on holy ground,
   where peace and justice meet.
   Here the love of God, through Jesus,
   is revealed in time and space,
   as we share in Christ the feast that frees us:
   

   All are welcome, all are welcome,
   all are welcome in this place.
   

4. Let us build a house where hands will reach
   beyond the wood and stone
   to heal and strengthen, serve and teach,
   and live the Word they’ve known.
   Here the outcast and the stranger
   bear the image of God’s face;
   let us bring an end to fear and danger:
   

   All are welcome, all are welcome,
   all are welcome in this place.
   

5. Let us build a house where all are named,
   their songs and visions heard
   and loved and treasured,
   taught and claimed
   as words within the Word.
   Built of tears and cries and laughter,
   prayers of faith and songs of grace,
   let this house proclaim from floor to rafter:
   

   All are welcome, all are welcome,
   all are welcome in this place.
   

1994, GIA Publications, Inc.

1. Revelation 21:1-6a
2. Matthew 25:31-46

CH4 596 Breathe on Me, Breath of God

1. Breathe on me, Breath of God;
   fill me with life anew,
   that I may love the way you love,
   and do what you would do.
   

2. Breathe on me, Breath of God,
   until my heart is pure,
   until with you I will one will,
   to do and to endure.
   

3. Breathe on me, Breath of God,
   direct my heart's desire,
   till every earthly part of me
   glows with your holy fire.
   

4. Breathe on me, Breath of God;
   so shall I never die,
   but live with you the perfect life
   of your eternity.
   

Message

CH4 526 This Is a Day of New Beginnings

1. This is a day of new beginnings,
   Time to remember and move on,
   Time to believe what love is bringing,
   Laying to rest the pain that’s gone.
   

2. For by the life and death of Jesus,
   Love’s mighty Spirit, now as then,
   Can make for us a world of difference,
   As faith and hope are born again.
   

3. Then let us, with the Spirit’s daring,
   Step from the past and leave behind
   Our disappointment, guilt and grieving,
   Seeking new paths, and sure to find.
   

4. Christ is alive, and goes before us,
   To show and share what love can do.
   This is a day of new beginnings;
   Our God is making all things new.
   

5. In faith we’ll gather round the table,
   To taste and share what love can do.
   This is a day of new beginnings;
   Our God is making all things new.
   

1987 Hope Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny.

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 530 One more step along the world I go

1. One more step along the world I go
   One more step along the world I go
   From the old things to the new
   Keep me traveling along with you
   

   And it's from the old I travel to the new
   Keep me traveling along with you
   

2. 'Round the corners of the world I turn
   More and more about the world I learn
   And the new things that I see
   You'll be looking at along with me
   

   And it's from the old I travel to the new
   Keep me traveling along with you
   

3. As I travel through the bad and good
   Keep me traveling the way I should
   Where I see no way to go
   You'll be telling me the way, I know
   

   And it's from the old I travel to the new
   Keep me traveling along with you
   

4. Give me courage when the world is rough
   Keep me loving though the world is tough
   Leap and sing in all I do
   Keep me traveling along with you
   

   And it's from the old I travel to the new
   Keep me traveling along with you
   

5. You are older than the world can be
   You are younger than the life in me
   Ever old and ever new
   Keep me traveling along with you
   

   And it's from the old I travel to the new
   Keep me traveling along with you
   

1971 Stainer & Bell

Blessing