KILRENNY PARISH CHURCH

Kilrenny Parish Church

Sunday 2^nd May 2021 - Rev Michael Allardice

 You Tube link:  https://youtu.be/j-CT3BcoFNk 

Welcome and Church News

 

Call to Worship

Leader:      Dear friends,
                   we gather in the name
                   of the God of love,
                   we gather in the presence
                   of the God of love.

All: So let us worship the God of love.

Leader:      Dear friends,
                   we gather as children of the God of love,
                   we gather as sisters and brothers.

All: So let us learn to love one another.

 

Hymn CH 484               Great God, your love has called us here

 

Opening Prayer and “The Lord’s Prayer”

 

Readings:   Acts 8: 26 – 40

                    St John 15: 1 – 8

 

Hymn CH 550                        As the deer pants for the water

 

Reflection: “The fruit of the Spirit”

 

Hymn CH 154               O Lord my God! When I in awesome wonder

 

Prayers of Dedication and Intercession

 

Hymn CH 512               To God be the glory, great things He has done!

 

Blessing

Hymn CH 484              

Great God, your love has called us here

as we, by love for love were made.

Your living likeness still we bear,

though marred, dishonoured, disobeyed.

We come, with all our heart and mind,

your call to hear, your love to find.

 

We come with self-inflicted pains

of broken trust and chosen wrong,

half-free, half-bound by inner chains,

by social forces swept along,

by powers and systems close confined

yet seeking hope for humankind.

 

Great God, in Christ you call our name

and then receive us as your own,

not through some merit, right or claim,

but by your gracious love alone.

We strain to glimpse your mercy-seat

and find you kneeling at our feet.

 

Then take the towel, and break the bread,

and humble us, and call us friends.

suffer and serve till all are fed,

and show how grandly love intends

to work till all creation sings,

to fill all worlds, to crown all things.

 

Great God, in Christ you set us free

your life to live, your joy to share.

Give us your Spirit's liberty

to turn from guilt and dull despair

and offer all that faith can do

while love is making all things new.

Hymn CH 550                       

As the deer pants for the water, so my soul longs after you.

You alone are my heart's desire, and I long to worship you.

 

          You alone are my strength, my shield

          to you alone may my spirit yield.

          You alone are my heart's desire,

          and I long to worship you.

 

I want you more than gold or silver; only you can satisfy.

You alone are the real joy-giver, and the apple of my eye.

 

You're my friend and you are my brother,

even though you are a King.

I love you more than any other, so much more than anything.

 

Hymn CH 154               O Lord my God! when I in awesome wonder

consider all the works thy hand hath made,

I see the stars, I hear the mighty thunder,

thy power throughout the universe displayed:

 

          Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to thee,

          How great thou art, how great thou art!

          Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to thee,

          How great thou art, how great thou art!

 

When through the woods and forest glades I wander

and hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees;

when I look up from lofty mountain grandeur,

and hear the brook, and feel the gentle breeze:

 

And when I think that god his Son not sparing,

sent him to die - I scarce can take it in,

that on the cross, my burden gladly bearing,

he bled and died to take away my sin:

Hymn CH 512              

To God be the glory, great things He has done!

So loved he the world that he gave us his Son,

who yielded his life an atonement for sin,

and opened the life-gate that all may go in.

 

          Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!

          Let the earth hear his voice!

          Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!

          Let the people rejoice!

          Oh, come to the Father, through Jesus the Son,

          and give him the glory! Great things he has done.

 

O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood,

to every believer the promise of God;

for every offender who truly believes,

that moment from Jesus a pardon receives.

 

Great things he has taught us, great things he has done,

and great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son;

but purer, and higher, and greater will be

our joy and our wonder, when Jesus we see.