The desert experience

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

Welcome
Call to Worship
MP 111  Dear Lord and Father of mankind  [verses  1,3,4]
Prayer
Rainbow – a symbol of promise
Video – Noah song
Lent: Reading Mark 1: 9-13
MP 515 O love that wilt not let me go
Church News
Prayers for the world
MP 16 All my hope on God is founded
Benediction

MP 111  Dear Lord and Father of mankind  [verses  1,3,4]

1 Dear Lord and Father of mankind
forgive our foolish way;
re-clothe us in our rightful mind;
in purer lives Thy service find,
in deeper reverence, praise

2 O Sabbath rest by Galilee!
O calm of hills above,
where Jesus knelt to share with Thee
the silence of eternity,
interpreted by love!

3 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.

Mark 1: 9-13  [NIV]

At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”

At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him.

MP 515 O love that wilt not let me go

1 O Love that wilt not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in Thee;
I give Thee back the life I owe,
that in Thine ocean depths its flow
may richer, fuller be.

2 O Light that followest all my way,
I yield my lfickering torch to Thee;
my heart restores its borrowed rays,
that in Thy sunshine’s blaze its day
may brighter, fairer be.

3 O Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to Thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
and fell the promise is not vain
that morn shall tearless be.

4 O cross that liftest up my head,
I dare not ask to fly from thee;
I lay in dust life’s glory dead,
and from the ground there blosson red
life that shall endless be.

MP 16 All my hope on God is founded

1 All my hope on God is founded,
all my trust He shall renew;
He, my guide through changing order,
only good and only true.
God unknown, He alone,
calls my heart to be His own.

2 Pride of man and earthly glory,
sword and crown betray His trust;
all that human toil can fashion,
tower and temple, fall to dust.
But God’s power, hour by hour,
is my temple and my tower.

3 Day by day our mighty giver
grants to us His gifts of love;
in His will our souls find pleasure,
leading to our home above.
Love shall stand at His hand,
joy shall wait for His command.

4 Still from man to God eternal
sacrifice of praise be done,
high above all praises praising
for the gift of Christ His Son.
Hear God’s call one and all:
we who follow shall not fall.