Jesus Visits Martha and Mary
Welcome and Notices
Call to worship
CH4 213 Every new morning
Prayer & Lord’s Prayer
Sketch: Jesus and Peter –‘The Keys’
MP 52 God sent his Son
Bible Reading: Luke 10: 38-42
MP 111 Dear Lord and Father of mankind
Sermon
MP 392 I want to walk with Jesus Christ
Prayers for the world
MP 760 When you walk with the Lord [Trust and obey]
Benediction
Call to Worship
We have gathered as God’s people
To delight in God’s presence
To experience God’s healing
To receive God’s grace
Let us be refreshed and renewed
As we worship our God
Through Christ in the Spirit.
CH4 213 Every new morning
1 Every new morning
God gives us freely
hearts that are thankful,
strength for the task,
people who love us
joy in our service,
all we have need of
if we but ask.
2 God will be with us
in all our thinking,
in all our speaking,
in all we do
and as we praise him
by all our actions,
he will be with us,
seeing us through.
3 God in the morning,
God in the noontide,
God in the evening,
all through the day,
God is within us,
and all around us,
God goes before us
all of the way.
MP 52 God sent his Son
1 God sent His Son, they called Him Jesus;
He came to love, heal, and forgive;
He lived and died to buy my pardon,
an empty grave is there
to prove my Saviour lives.
Chorus – Because He lives I can face tomorrow
because He lives all fear is gone;
because I know He holds the future,
and life is worth living
just because He lives.
2 How sweet to hold a new born baby,
and feel the pride and joy he gives;
but greater still the calm assurance,
this child can face uncertain days
because He lives.
3 And then one day I’ll cross the river;
I’ll fight life’s final war with pain;
and then as death gives way to victory,
I’ll see the lights of glory
and I’ll know He lives.
Bible Reading: Luke 10: 38-42
Jesus Visits Martha and Mary
Jesus and his disciples went on their way. Jesus came to a village where a woman named Martha lived. She welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary. Mary sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was busy with all the things that had to be done. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, my sister has left me to do the work by myself. Don’t you care? Tell her to help me!”
“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered. “You are worried and upset about many things. But few things are needed. Really, only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better. And it will not be taken away from her.”
MP 111 Dear Lord and Father of mankind
1 Dear Lord and Father of Mankind,
forgive our foolish ways;
re-clothe us in our rightful mind;
in purer lives Thy service find,
in deeper reverence, praise.
2 In simple trust like theirs who heard,
beside the Syrian sea,
the gracious calling of the Lord,
let us, like them, without a word
rise up and follow Thee.
3 O Sabbath rest by Galilee!
O calm of hills above,
where Jesus knelt to share with Thee
the silence of eternity,
interpreted by love!
4 With that deep hush subduing all
our words and works that drown
the tender whisper of Thy call,
as noiseless let Thy blessing fall
as fell Thy manna down.
5 Drop Thy still dew of quietness,
till all our strivings cease;
take from our souls
the strains and stress,
and let our ordered lives confess
the beauty of Thy peace.
6 Breathe through the hearts of our desire
Thy coolness and Thy balm;
let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
speak through the earthquake,
wind and fire,
O still small voice of calm!
MP 302 I want to walk with Jesus Christ
1 I want to walk with Jesus Christ,
all the days I live of this life on earth;
to give Him complete control
of body and of soul.
Chorus: Follow Him, follow Him,
yield your life to Him –
He has conquered death,
He is King of kings;
accept the joy which He gives to those
who yield their lives to Him.
2 I want to learn to speak to Him,
to pray to Him, confess my sin,
to open my life and let Him in,
for joy will then be mine.
3 I want to learn to speak to Him –
my life must show that He lives in me;
my deeds, my thoughts, my words
must speak all of His love for me.
4 I want to learn to read His word,
for this is how I know the way
to life my life as pleases Him,
in holiness and joy.
5 O Holy Spirit of the Lord,
enter now into this heart of mine;
take full control of my selfish will
and make me wholly Thine!
MP 760 When you walk with the Lord [Trust and obey]
1 When we walk with the Lord in the light of His word,
what a glory He sheds on our way!
While we do His good will,
He abides with us still,
and with all who will trust and obey.
Chorus
Trust and obey,
for there’s no other way
to be happy in Jesus,
but to trust and obey.
2 Not a shadow can rise,
not a cloud in the skies,
but His smile quickly drives it away;
not a doubt nor a fear,
not a sign nor a tear,
can abide while we trust and obey.
3 Not a burden we bear,
not a sorrow we share,
but our toil He doth richly repay;
not a grief nor a loos,
not a frown nor a cross,
but is blest if we trust and obey.
4 But we never can prove
the delights of His love,
until all on the altar we lay;
for the favour He shows,
and the joy He bestows
are for them who will trust and obey.
5 Then in fellowship sweet,
we will sit at his feet,
or we’ll walk by His side in the way.
What He says we will do,
where He sends we will go,
never fear, only trust and obey.
