Order of Service – Sunday 1 September 2024 – PENTECOST 15 – FATHER’S DAY

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CALL TO WORSHIP

O God, we praise You for this day. We worship and adore You. We pray today for ears to listen and hearts to fully experience Your love and grace. We thank You for Your presence. May You receive all the glory and honour. Amen!

Come into our hearts today, O Lord, as we consider again who You are, what You mean to us, and how we will respond to Your call to follow You and no other.

HYMN:       449       “Stand Up and Bless the Lord”

PRAYER OF ADORATION AND PRAISE

Father, You are greater than anything we can imagine, more wonderful than our deepest joy and more powerful than anything we have known. Yours is the authority that always intended to create.

Yours is the sovereignty that holds all things in the palm of Your hand. Yours is the love that continually seeks to bring everyone, everywhere into the joy of perfect fellowship with You.

Father, we adore You; we have come to lay our lives before You as we declare we love You, our God. We praise You for the demonstration of Your authority, sovereignty, and love in the life, death, and resurrection of Your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen!                                   (David Clowes)

HYMN:       627       “Praise and Thanksgiving”

PRAYER OF CONFESSION

Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer.

From the ends of the earth I call to You, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

For You have been my refuge, a strong tower against the foe.

I long to dwell in Your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of Your wings.

For You have heard my vows, O God; You have given me the heritage of those who fear Your name. Amen.                                                                                                          Psalm 61:1-5

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS

The good news in Christ is that when we face ourselves and God with the awareness of our need, we are given grace to grow, and courage to carry on the journey.

RESPONSIVE READING             Psalm 96                               Page 592

TIME TO PRAY

In silence, please offer your prayers to the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus.

SONG:                           “We Sing of Your Glory”     

BIBLE READINGS –                                                                Jan Cartwright

Proverbs 22:1-12 (Page 647)                                 Ephesians 6:1-4 (Pages 1159-1160)

MUSICAL REFLECTION

MESSAGE:        “The Wise and the Good Father”      Krikor Youmshajekian

HYMN:             “O Give Us Homes, Built Firm Upon the Saviour”

NOTICES –

  • Movie/ Pizza Nights -Tuesday 3 September 6:30 pm.
  • Election Day Stall – Saturday 14 September from 8:00 am.
  • Fashion Parade – Wednesday 18 September 10:15 am to noon.
  • John Flynn Combined Service with LCU & the Great Outback BBQ Sunday 27 October 9:30 am at St. Columba’s.

OFFERING  –         “Give, and it will be given to you.” (Luke 6:38)

HYMN:       519       “And Now O Father, Mindful of the Love”

THE LORD’S SUPPER

Blessed are You, Lord, God of all creation. Through Your goodness we have this bread to offer which earth has given and human hands have made. It will become for us the bread of life.

Blessed be God forever.

Blessed are You Lord, God of all creation. Through Your goodness we have this cup to offer, fruit of the vine and work of human hands. It will become for us our spiritual drink.

Blessed be God forever.

INVOCATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Eternal God, let Your Spirit come upon Your holy people, and may He sanctify these gifts of bread and wine.

As we share these holy things, may we be nourished and grow in grace to Your honour and glory, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Holy God, with this bread and with this cup, we do as our Saviour has commanded; we celebrate the redemption He has won for us.

For as often as we eat this bread and drink from this cup, we proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.

Receive our praise, God almighty, through Jesus Christ our Lord, with whom and in whom by the power of the Holy Spirit, we worship You in songs of never-ending praise:

Blessing, honour, glory and power are Yours forever and ever. Amen!

BREAKING THE BREAD

The bread we break is a sharing of the body of Christ.

The cup we take is sharing in the blood of Christ.

INVITATION

Take in faith this Holy Sacrament of the body and the blood of Christ in remembrance that He died for You, and feed on Him in your hearts with thanksgiving.

DISMISSAL

We thank You our God that You have fed us with this sacrament, united us with Christ, and given us a foretaste of the heavenly banquet prepared for all humanity.

Loving God, we offer ourselves to You as a living sacrifice through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Send us out in the power of the Holy Spirit to live and work to Your praise and glory. Amen.

HYMN:       530       “Now Let Us From This Table Rise” (Tune 768i)

THE LORD’S PRAYER

THE BLESSING

To Him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy, to the only God our Saviour be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and for evermore. Amen!             (Jude. 24-25)

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