The Transfiguration

(words for hymns can be found below the order of service)

Welcome
Call to Worship
CH4 543 : Longing for light
Prayer & Lord’s Prayer
Reading Mark 9 : 2 – 9
CH4 336 : Christ is our light
Reflection
Video : My lighthouse – Rend Collective
Prayer for Others
CH4 458 : At the name of Jesus
Blessing

Call to Worship

God with us on the mountain top
God with us in the desert places
Be with us day and night
In high place and low

In your presence
By your love
May our lives be transformed
May our lives reflect your light

As we praise and honour you

CH4 543 : Longing for light

1 Longing for light, we wait in darkness.
Longing for truth, we turn to you.
Make us your own, your holy people,
light for the world to see.

Chorus
Christ, be our light!
Shine in our hearts.
Shine through the darkness.
Christ, be our light!
Shine in your Church gathered today.

2 Longing for peace, our world is troubled.
Longing for hope, many despair.
Your word alone has power to save us.
Make us your living voice.
Chorus

3 Longing for shelter, many are homeless.
Longing for warth, many are cold.
Make us your building, sheltering others,
walls made of living stone.
Chorus

4 Many the gifts, many the people,
many the hearts that yearn to belong.
Let us be servants to one another,
making your kingdom come.
Chorus

Reading Mark 9 : 2 – 9

After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone.

There he was transfigured before them.  His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus.

Peter said to Jesus, ‘Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters – one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.’ (He did not know what to say, they were so frightened.)

Then a cloud appeared and covered them, and a voice came from the cloud: ‘This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!’

Suddenly, when they looked around, they no longer saw anyone with them except Jesus.

As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

CH4 336 : Christ is our light

1 Christ is our light! the bright and morning star
covering with radiance, all from near and far.
Christ be our light, shine one, shine on we pray
into our hearts, into our world today.

2 Christ is our love! baptized that we may know
the love of God among us, swooping low.
Christ be our love, bring us to turn our face
and see in you the light of heaven’s embrace.

3 Christ is our joy! transforming wedding guest!
Through water turned to wine the feast was blessed.
Christ be out joy; your glory let us see,
as your disciples did in Galilee.

CH4 458 : At the name of Jesus

1 At the name of Jesus
every knee shall bow,
every tongue confess him
King of glory now;
‘tis the Fathers pleasure
we should call him Lord
who from the beginning
was the mighty Word.

2 Brothers, sisters name him
with love strong as death,
but with awe and wonder
and with bated breath!
He is God the Saviour
He is Christ the Lord,
ever to be worshipped,
trusted and adored.

3 In your hearts enthrone him;
there let him subdue
all that is not holy
all that is not true:
let his grace support you
in temptations hour
and his will enfold you
in its light and power.

4 In his Fathers glory
Christ shall come again,
angel hosts proclaiming
his return to reign
For all wreaths of empire
meet upon his brow
and our hearts confess him
King of glory now.