2nd Week of Lent
(words for hymns and bible readings can be found below the order of service)
Welcome & Intimations
Call to worship
Hymn CH4 97 : O God you search me and you know me
Reading Mark 8 : 31 – 38
Prayer & Lord’s prayer
Hymn MP 502 : O let the Son of God enfold you
Reflection
Video : And Can it be ( Stuart Townend)
Prayer for others
Hymn MP 200 : Great is thy faithfulness
Blessing
Call to Worship
We believe
That we shall see that goodness of the Lord
In the land of the living
Therefore, we wait on the Lord
Let our hearts take courage
And our faith renews
As we worship God
Hymn CH4 97: O God you search me and you know me
1 O God, you search me and you know me.
All my thoughts lie open to your gaze.
When I walk or lie down you are before me:
ever the maker and keeper of my days.
2 You know my resting and my rising.
You discern my purpose from afar,
and with live everlasting you besiege me;
in every moment of life or death, you are.
3 Before a word is on my tongue, Lord,
you have known its meaning through and through.
You are with me beyond my understanding:
God of my present, my past and future, too.
4 Although your Spirit is upon me,
still I search for shelter from your light.
There is nowhere on earth I can escape you:
even the darkness is radiant in your sight.
5 For you created me and shaped me,
gave me life within my mother’s womb.
For the wonder of who I am, I praise you:
safe in your hands, all creation is made new.
Mark 8 : 31 – 38 NIV
He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again.
He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said:
“Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 3If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
Hymn MP 502 : O let the Son of God enfold you
1 O let the Son of God enfold you
with His Spirit and His love;
let Him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.
O let Him have the things that hold you,
and His Spirit, like a dove,
will descend upon your life and make you whole.
Chorus
Jesus, O Jesus,
come and fill Your lambs;
Jesus, O Jesus,
come and fill Your lambs.
2 O come and sing this song with gladness,
as your hearts are filled with joy;
lift your hands in sweet surrender to His name.
O give Him all your tears and sadness,
give Him all your years of pain,
and you’ll enter into life in Jesus’ name.
Chorus
Hymn MP 200/CH4 153 : Great is thy faithfulness
1 Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father,
there is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not, Thy compassions they fail not,
as Thou hast been Thou for ever wilt be.
Chorus
Great is Thy faithfulness,
great is Thy faithfulness;
morning by morning
new mercies I see;
all I have needed
Thy hand hath provided –
great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!
2 Summer and winter, and spring-time and harvest,
sun, moon and stars in their courses above,
join with all nature in manifold witness
to Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.
Chorus
3 Pardon for sin, and a peace that endureth,
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
strength for todau and bright hope for tomorrow,
blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!
Chorus