9.30am
5
thSeptember 2021
ONLINE SERVICE
Led by Revd Tony Miles, Superintendent Minister, Deacon Ali McMillan, and Revd Paul Wood.
Preacher: Revd Tony Miles
1 Thessalonians 5:1-11,16-19 and Luke 17:11-19
LIVE STREAM WELCOME & INTRODUCTION Revd Tony Miles
VIDEO CALL TO WORSHIP - Promises
VIDEO SONG - O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing O for a thousand tongues to sing
my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace!
My gracious Master and my God, assist me to proclaim,
to spread through all the earth abroad the honours of your name.
Jesus — the name that charms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease;
'tis music in the sinner's ears, tis life, and health, and peace.
He breaks the power of cancelled sin, he sets the prisoner free;
his blood can make the foulest clean,
his blood availed for me.
He speaks; and, listening to his voice, new life the dead receive;
the mournful, broken hearts rejoice;
the humble poor believe.
See all your sins on Jesus laid:
the Lamb of God was slain;
his soul was once an offering made that all may heaven gain.
In Christ, our Head, you then shall know, shall feel, your sins forgiven,
anticipate your heaven below, and own that love is heaven.
Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
OPENING PRAYERS
Led by Deacon Ali McMillan
THE LORD’S PRAYER
Please join in using your own language or the version you prefer
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your Name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours, now and for ever.
Amen.
VIDEO SONG - Great Is Thy Faithfulness Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father, there is no shadow of turning with thee;
thou changest not, thy compassions they fail not, as thou hast been thou for ever wilt be.
Great is thy faithfulness!
Great is thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
all I have needed thy hand hath provided – great is thy faithfulness, Lord unto me!
Summer and winter, and spring-time and harvest, sun, moon and stars in their courses above, join with all nature in manifold witness to thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.
Chorus
Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth, thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow, blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!
Chorus
Thomas O Chisholm (1866-1960)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Revd Tony Miles and Deacon Ali McMillan GLOBAL GREETING
OFFERING PRAYER
Led by Revd Paul Wood
EPISTLE LESSON 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11, 16-19 TNIV Read by Claudia Bultman
Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you,
2for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
3While people are saying, ‘Peace and safety’, destruction will come on them suddenly, as labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief.
5You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
6So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober.
7For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
8But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
9For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
10He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.
11Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
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Rejoice always,
17pray continually,
18give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
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Do not quench the Spirit.
VIDEO HYMN - Thou God Of Truth And Love Thou God of truth and love,
we seek thy perfect way, ready thy choice to approve, thy providence to obey;
enter into thy wise design,
and sweetly lose our will in thine.
Why hast thou cast our lot in the same age and place, and why together brought to see each other's face, to join with loving sympathy, and mix our friendly souls in thee?
Didst thou not make us one, that we might one remain, together travel on,
and share our joy and pain, till all thy utmost goodness prove, and rise renewed in perfect love?
Then let us ever bear the blessèd end in view, and join, with mutual care, to fight our passage through;
and kindly help each other on, till all receive the starry crown.
O may thy Spirit seal our souls unto that day, with all thy fullness fill, and then transport away:
away to our eternal rest,
away to our Redeemer's breast.
Charles Wesley (1707–1788)
GOSPEL LESSON Luke 17:11-19 TNIV Read by Revd Paul Wood
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Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus travelled along the border between Samaria and Galilee.
12As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him.
They stood at a distance
13and called out in a loud
voice, ‘Jesus, Master, have pity on us!’
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When he saw them, he said, ‘Go, show yourselves to the priests.’ And as they went, they were
cleansed.
15One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice.
16He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him – and he was a Samaritan.
17Jesus asked, ‘Were not all ten
cleansed? Where are the other nine?
18Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?’
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