KILRENNY PARISH CHURCH

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Kilrenny Church

Sunday, 8th March  2026       3rd in Lent

 

 

on fig trees

 

 

St Luke 13 vv 1 - 9   &   21 vv 29 - 33        

   St Luke 18 vv 31 - 34

The Gospel of Luke                 The Road to Golgotha

 

 Call to Worship   

Leader: Let us bring here

All: our hurts and questions.

Leader: Let us bring here

All: our concerns and worries.

Leader: Let us bring here

All: the fragments of our faith

and dare believe God holds it all.

 

CH4  399     My song is love unknown   (omit v3)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome, Church & Community News

 

• After School Club in Springfield Community Church from 3.30 - 5.00p.m. tomorrow, 9th March.
• There is a COMMS Team meeting in Springfield Church on Wednesday, 11th March at 9.45a.m.
• The minister is meeting with Chloe Denis, Carer Support Manager from Fife Council in Springfield Community Church on Wednesday, 11th March at 10.30a.m.
• The Weekly Coffee Club at Springfield is on from 10.30a.m. on Wednesday, 11th March. This is a great community outreach project and sincere thanks to John for another great year of preparation and hosting.
• Springfield Youth Club meets next on Wednesday, 11th March from 6.30 - 8p.m. Please contact Karolina for more details cksyc@gmail.com
• RVS Lunches will be available for anyone and everyone this Thursday, (26th February) as usual from 12.30p.m. at Springfield.
• The Lent series of Talking Faith will be running every Thursday throughout Lent. We are following a resource called: Meeting God in the gospel of St John. This is available to buy from Church House Bookshop for £8.99. Everyone is welcome and you don’t have to come every week!

Come along this Thursday, 12th March from 2.30 - 4.00p.m.

• The Ceres Youth Club meets as usual this Friday, 27th February from 7pm. in the Session House. Please contact our sessional youth worker Karolina for details. cksyc@gmail.com

9. Holy Week Services are being shared across our linked charge this year:

Holy Monday service on 30th March in Kilrenny Church at 7.00p.m.

Maundy Thursday Communion in Springfield Community Church on 3rd April at 7.00p.m.

Good Friday Service in Kingsbarns Church at 3.00p.m.

Easter Morning Services are being celebrated in each church building at the usual times.

 

 

 

Lent

Dear Friends in Christ … every year we celebrate Christ’s death and resurrection. Lent is a time to prepare for this celebration. In order that our Lent may be a time of renewal and growth we begin this season by remembering our need for repentance and for the forgiveness of God proclaimed by Jesus Christ …

I invite you, therefore, in the name of Christ, to observe a holy Lent by self examination and repentance, perhaps by fasting, perhaps by self denial, by giving to those in need, and by reading and meditating on the Word of God.

 

Hymn CH4  359      He came down that we may have love  

 

Prayer Of Adoration And Confession

 

A Little Context

 

St Luke 13 vv 1 - 9   &   21 vv 29 - 33 

 

Some More Context

 

   St Luke 18 vv 31 - 34

 

Homily      

 

  Hymn   GWA 188     O God of strength & everlasting kindness

(to the tune Intercessor from CH4 521)

 

1. O God of strength and everlasting kindness,

we come to you with hearts and minds unsure.

May your great love surround and ease the anxious

and be the light which shines through shuttered doors.

 

 

2. When worries surge and all is in disorder,

when circumstance is more than we can bear,

when in the storm we cannot find safe harbour,

we ask for your protection and your care.

 

3. When life itself torments and overwhelms us,

when stressful days con some our fragile souls,

in conflict, pain, and turmoil, Lord remind us

of faith and hope that make the broken whole.

 

4. When paranoia undercuts our senses,

when it is hard to fathom what is true,

we have no strength to mend our tired defences:

we ask for peace to draw us close to you.

 

5. O God of life, who dwells in light and darkness,

you do not flinch at all we hold within.

Your grace is stronger than our every weakness,

and where we end we know you can begin.

 

The Offering and Prayer Of Dedication

 

Prayers For Others, Ourselves & The Lord’s Prayer

 

Hymn  622       We sing a love that sets all people free

 

  Sending & Benediction