13 june 2010

Sunday 13 June

2010

Led by Trevor Hill

Cross Cultural Service

HYMN OF ENTRY TIS 107

Sing praise and thanksgiving let all creatures living.

Sing praise and thanksgiving, let all creatures living

now worship their maker with gladness and song;

all glory and honour we come to him bringing:

O praise to the Almighty, sing praise to our God!

Our lives of his making he brings to their waking;

in darkness he held us in his gracious care,

now into the light we are called from our sleeping:


Lord, frame our desiring to do your requiring,

that unto your glory be all that we do;

and where we have faltered, give strength and give healing:


CALL TO WORSHIP

The Lord be with you and also with you

Where have you come from? We have come from our homes in the community round about.

What did you bring with you? We bring love for our

neighbours. We bring joys, we also bring

cares and sorrows.

Why have you come? We have come to meet with

one another and to share our joys,

our cares and our sorrows with each other and with God.

We have come to worship God.

Then let us worship God together for God is a spirit and those who come to worship, must come in spirit so that we may be enriched as Gods spiritcommunicates with our spirit.

HYMN 133

O worship the King

all glorious above

Copyright © HarperCollinsReligious, 2000. Used by permission.Robert Grant 1779 1838 alt.based on Psalm 104 and Psalm 18

LicenSing #A1205

O worship the King all-glorious above,

O gratefully sing his power and his love:

our shield and defender, the ancient of days,

pavilioned in splendour, and girded with praise.

O tell of his might, O sing of his grace,

whose robe is the light, whose canopy space;

his chariots of wrath the deep thunder-clouds form,

and dark is his path on the wings of the storm.

The earth with its store of wonders untold,

Almighty, your power has founded of old,

established it fast by a changeless decree,

and round it has cast, like a mantle, the sea.

Your bountiful care what tongue can recite?

It breathes in the air, it shines in the light,

it streams from the hills, it descends to the plain,

and sweetly distils in the dew and the rain.

Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail,

in you do we trust, nor find you to fail:

your mercies how tender, how firm to the end,

our maker, defender, redeemer and friend.

O measureless might, ineffable love,

while angels delight to hymn you above,

the humbler creation, though faltering their praise,

with true adoration shall sing all their days.

Prayer

RESPONSIVE PRAYER

Lord God, early in the morningwhen the world was young,You made life in all its beauty, You gave birth to all that

we know. Hallowed be your name.

Early in the morning, When the world least expected

it, a new born child crying in a

cradle announced that you had come

among us that you were one with us Hallowed be thy name

Early in the morning in the multicoloured company of your church on earth and

in heaven, we celebrate your creation,Your life, Your death and resurrection,Your interest in us.Thanks be to God. Amen.

© Wild Goose Publications

RESPONSIVE PSALM 145: 1 - 6, 10 -13

I will extol thee, O God my king And bless thy name forever Every day will I bless thee And praise thy name for ever

Great is the Lord and worthy of all praise.

His greatness is unfathomable. One generation shall commend

thy works to another and set forth thy mighty deeds

My theme shall be thy marvellous works

The glorious splendour of your majesty

People shall declare thy mighty acts with awe

and tell of thy great deeds

All thy creatures praise thee, Lord.

and thy servants bless thee. They talk of the glory of thy

kingdom and tell of thy might.

They proclaim to their fellows how mighty are thy deeds

How glorious the majesty of thy kingdom

Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom

And thy dominion stands for all generations.

Belonging

‘TWO ENDS’

HYMN 653 This is a day of new beginnings.

Words: Brian Wren Used by permission LicenSing #A1205 Copyright © HarperCollinsReligious, 2000..

This is a day of new beginnings,time to remember, and move on,time to believe what love

is bringing,laying to rest the pain that's

gone.

For by the life and death of Jesus,

God's mighty Spirit, now as then,can make for us a world of

differenceas faith and hope are born again.

Then let us, with the Spirit's daring,

step from the past, and leave behind

our disappointment, guilt and grieving,

seeking new paths, and sure to find.

Christ is alive, and goes before us

to show and share what love can do.

This is a day of new beginnings;our God is making all things

new.

Christian Scriptures Reading

Luke 7: 36 - 50

Jesus at the Home of Simon the Pharisee

36 A Pharisee invited Jesus to have dinner with him, and Jesus went to his house and sat down to eat.

37 In that town was a woman who lived a sinful life. She heard that Jesus was eating in the Pharisee's house, so she brought an alabaster jar full of perfume.

38 and stood behind Jesus, by his feet, crying and wetting his feet with her tears. Then she dried his feet with her hair, kissed them, and poured the perfume on them.

39 When the Pharisee saw this, he said to himself, “If this man really were a prophet, he would know who this woman is who is touching him; he would know what kind of sinful life she lives!”

40 Jesus spoke up and said to him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.” “Yes, Teacher,” he said, “tell me.”

41 “There were two men who owed money to a moneylender,” Jesus began. “One owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other owed him fifty.

42 Neither of them could pay him back, so he cancelled the debts of both. Which one, then, will love him more?”

43 “I suppose,” answered Simon, “that it would be the one who was forgiven more.” “You are right,” said Jesus.

44 Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your home, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.

45 You did not welcome me with a kiss, but she has not stopped kissing my feet since I came.

46 You provided no olive oil for my head, but she has covered my feet with perfume.

47 I tell you, then, the great love she has shown proves that her many sins have been forgiven. But whoever has been forgiven little shows only a little love.”

48 Then Jesus said to the woman, “Your sins are forgiven.”

49 The others sitting at the table began to say to themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?”

50 But Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

A man there lived in Galileelike no one else before,for he alone from first to lastour flesh unsullied wore;a perfect life of perfect deedsonce to the world was shown,that everyone might mark his

stepsand in them place their own.

A man there died on Calvary,above all others brave;he gave to all, he saved and

blessed,himself he scorned to save;no thought can gauge the

weight of woeon him, the sinless, laid;we only know that with his deathour ransom price was paid.

A man there stands at God's right hand,

divine, yet human still;that grand, heroic, peerless souldeath sought in vain to kill.All power is his: supreme he rulesall realms of time and space;yet still our human cares and needsfind in his heart a place.

Preaching of the Word

“Three Little Words”.

This, this is the God we adore;our faithful, unchangeable

friend;whose love is as great as his

power,and neither knows measure

nor end.

'Tis Jesus the first and the lastwhose Spirit shall guide us safe

home;we'll praise him for all that is

past,and trust him for all that's

to come.

All are welcome to come to the Church Council meeting

to hear the report of last Sunday’s consultation

regarding ‘HAYSTACK’.

Anniversary of the Uniting Church in Australia

Special welcome to newcomers

Celebration of and thank you for

the work of Drop In.Led by John Mann

Prayers of the People.

Offering and

Dedication

Hymn 687 God gives us a future

Used by permission. Words © E. J. SmithCopyright © HarperCollinsReligious, 2000. LicenSing #A1205

God gives us a future,daring us to gointo dreams and dangerson a path unknown.We will face tomorrowin the Spirit's power,we will let God change us,for new life starts now.

We must leave behind ussins of yesterday,for God's new beginningis a better way.Fear and doubt and habitmust not hold us back:God gives hope, and insight,and the strength we lack.

Holy Spirit, teach ushow to read the signs,how to meet the challengeof our troubled times.Love us into action,stir us into prayer,till we choose God's life, andfind our future there.

Sending Forth

May the blessing of God go before you.

May grace and peace abound. May the Spirit live within you. May love wrap you round.

May the blessing remain with you always

For you walk on HOLY ground.AMEN,

ALLELUIA, AMEN

Next Sunday

Uniting Church in AustraliaAnniversary

Special welcome to recent newcomers

to HUC

Worship will be led by John Mann

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