Each Sunday we post online worship resources for those to stay in touch and stay safe.
The links to the hymns can be accessed by clicking on “Click here” beside the hymn title. These take you to Youtube and we have no control over the adverts you see.
The prayers are taken from the Church of Scotland Weekly Worship.
There is a bonus track at the end of the worship to enjoy.
Scriptural sentence
Jesus said, “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
Opening prayer
Approach to God/Call to worship
Our Lord, ‘We believe in life before death.’
And having your assurance should free us from fear and inhibition
and release us to get on with life!
With being salt and light.
With being good news to the poor.
With proclaiming sight to the blind and liberty to the captives.
With being peacemakers.
And so much more.
For now we are very much in the world. Indeed in your final prayer for His followers, said. ‘I am not asking you (that is, his Father) to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one.’
Amen
The First Hymn:
God is Our Strength and Refuge Click here
Prayer of Reflective confession
Let us pray.
Creator God, as we draw ever nearer to Pentecost,
we remember that in the beginning, the earth was ‘formless and empty,
and that darkness was over the surface of the deep.’
But we remember too that You were present and
that Your creative Spirit was on the startling line, ready to go.
And so we praise You that out of nothing You brought everything into being
and that through Your spirit, we have order and not chaotic nothingness.
as we lift our gaze to the stars,
and as we marvel at the beauty of delicate spring flowers,
with thankful hearts we rejoice in all that is; in all that You have given.
But we acknowledge the darkness of our own lives and
our need for the light of Christ, ministered by the Spirit.
Forgive us, we pray, our self-centredness, our fractiousness,
our greed and all that is contrary to Your will for our lives.
For a healing touch, we pray, and for a deep sense of assurance
that Your love for us made known in Jesus is sufficient.
In the days to come, grant us an inner hunger for deeper communion with You
and that we might delight all the more in Your living word.
Might we be like ‘trees planted by streams of water, which yields fruit in season.’
These and all our prayers we offer in Jesus’ name
And so we pray the prayer Jesus called us to pray.
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 debts,
as we forgive our debtors
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever.
Amen
Bible Reading: John 8:31-58(Film) Click Here
The Reflection: Click Here
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Living God
accept all the offerings we bring to You
in a whole variety of ways.
Grant that they may go where we can’t go,
that they may reach where we cannot reach,
that they may do what we cannot do.
Use them to strengthen Your Church
and advance Your kingdom
here where we are and far beyond
for Jesus’ sake.
Amen.
The Second Hymn: The Head that Once was Crowned with Thorns Click here
Prayers of Intercession
Let us pray.
Loving Lord, as Jesus prayed for His disciples
so we pray today for Your Church in all its parts.
We pray with thanks for the saints now gathered around Your throne,
that their witness to the gospel was strong and true.
We pray for the worldwide Church,
praying for a fresh outpouring of Your Spirit
in the days of Pentecost now before us.
We pray especially for those parts of Your Church
which live under the daily threat of persecution.
Grant protection, courage and strength, we pray.
We pray for the Church across Scotland – traditional denominations, independent streams, fledgling fresh expressions –
that You would equip it with all necessary grace for the challenges of this day.
Bind us together in loving unity, as Christ prayed.
We pray for the Church of Scotland,
for all who serve within it and for all who turn to it seeking light and love. Grant it a sure sense of where You are leading;
strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.
We pray for our own congregations,
asking that You would give us the persevering spirit of those of our forebears
who came through seasons of great challenge.
And we pray for ourselves for we are the Church,
the individual parts which make up the Body of Christ on earth.
Inspired by Your word,
shaped by Your Spirit,
send us out to be salt and light.
In Jesus’ name,
God, in Your mercy hear our prayer.
Amen
Closing Hymn: Mighty to Save Click Here
Closing Blessing
Born of God
Born of love
Born of light
Abide in God
Abide in love
Abide in light
Go in God
Go in love
Go in light
And the blessing of God Almighty,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit
be with you all,
now and always.
Amen
Bonus worship track Gabriel’s Oboe from The Mission (1986) Click here (When you put the kettle on allow a different style into your life of worship)
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