We are still family even while we are apart, so while we are unable to gather because of the ongoing health crisis, I will be sharing material on the blog each Sunday morning, and posting notes to those unable to access the internet. Of course you are free to use this material at any time, but my hope is that as many of us as possible will be reading these words during our usual service time - Sunday at 10:30 if you're new or need a reminder! - gathering in time if not in space.
Over the next few weeks, we will be thinking about what resurrection life may look like for us in the light of the current health crisis. Where do we go from here? Is there still space for fear as well as hope? What might look like the old life and what will be made new?
Call to worship
Begin by holding in your mind all those you would normally be worshipping with, and others that you love and are currently distanced from, then hear these words from Psalm 145 as a call to remember who we worship.
Song | The Lord Is Gracious And Compassionate
Prayer
Here I invite you to spend some time praying about what is on your heart, but I also offer a focus for prayer below. However you pray, I invite you to end with the Lord's Prayer.
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come, your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our sins,
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory
forever and ever.
Amen.
Reading: Revelation 21:1-4, 22-26, read by John Hughes
Song | Hail To The Lord's Anointed
Reflection, by our minister Leigh Greenwood
Song | Jesus Christ Is Waiting
Blessing
Close your time of worship by again holding in your mind those you love and would be worshipping alongside, and use the words of the grace: May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit remain with us all evermore. Amen.
Thanks Leigh, lovely service.
Also thanks to John, Clare, Fiona , Mike & Mark for thier contributions.