Author: Alan Mathew

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by Alan Mathew, posted in What we're singing

A reflective hymn for this Sundays (24th) service.

This hymn is about dedication and commitment. To follow after Jesus is costly. Matthew 16:24-26 says: “Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?’” I’d rather have Jesus than silver or gold…

Philippians 1:21 reminds us: “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.” I’d rather have Jesus and let Him lead…

Philippians 3:8 says, “What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ.” I’d rather have Jesus than world-wide fame, I’d rather be true to His holy name…

Sunday 24’th February 2019 at 11.00am

by Alan Mathew, posted in Sunday Worship

Moses and the Ten Commandments

Entry of choir & minister

Welcome and Intimations (session clerk)

Choir Introit (Bible is placed in pulpit) Higher than the hills

Call to worship

Hymn God’s law is perfect and gives life (Sheet) tune Forest Green

Prayer and Lord’s Prayer

Dedication/Thanksgiving service

Hymn Be still and know that I am God and… (CH4 754)

Offering uplifted by duty team

Offering dedicated by minister, then children leave for ‘young church’

Reading/s Exodus 20:1-17 and Matthew 19:16-30

Hymn I’d rather have Jesus than silver… (MP 319)

Sermon

Hymn I have brought you out of Egypt (Sheet) tune Hyfrydol

Prayers of intercession

Hymn Go to the world. Go into all the earth (CH4 683) tune Sine Nomine

Benediction and three-fold amen (Sung)

May the God of peace (CH4 786)

A Gift From God

by Alan Mathew, posted in Prayer items

This valentines day we remember the gift of love. A gift from God.

© John P. Read

Published: October 2014

Love can’t be described.
It has no shape, it has no form.
Love is not an object.
Love does not conform.

Love enters our lives
The moment we are born.
From the cradle to the grave,
Love’s in everyone.

Love burns like a candle
That sometimes flickers but never dies.
Love may be invisible,
Although it’s right before your eyes,

Love can leave you empty,
Love can make you whole.
Love can make or break you,
Love is in your soul.

Love is in your heart,
Love is in your mind.
Love doesn’t discriminate,
Love is always blind.

Love is universal,
It encompasses the globe.
No matter where you are,
Love has a language all its own.

Love is all around you.
There’s plenty of love to spare.
You cannot see or touch it,
But love is everywhere.

Love’s the greatest power,
And yet it is so small.
Love’s a gift from God
To be shared amongst us all.