Sunday Worship
This Sunday’s service begins at 10:30am and will be held via the Zoom online portal.
Minister
Rev Mark Smith
Mobile: 0776 215 2755
Email: mark.Smith@churchofscotland.org.uk
YouTube & Facebook: RevMark Smith
To access our Sunday Worship Zoom service use the following login details:
ZOOM link:
Tel. 0131 460 1196 with meeting ID:
Notices
Welcome & Introduction
Opening Prayer
Hymn 132, Immortal, invisible, God only wise
Immortal, invisible, God only wise,
in light inaccessible hid from our eyes,
most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days,
Almighty, victorious, Thy great Name we praise.
Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light,
nor wanting, nor wasting, Thou rulest in might;
Thy justice like mountains, high soaring above
Thy clouds, which are fountains
of goodness and love.
To all, life Thou givest, to both great and small;
in all life Thou livest, the true life of all;
we blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree,
and wither and perish, but naught changeth Thee.
Great Father of Glory, pure Father of Light,
Thine angels adore Thee, all veiling their sight.
All praise we would render: O help us to see
‘tis only the splendour of light hideth Thee.
Walter Chalmers Smith (1824-1908)
Activity
Sowing the seeds of Love
Please have a wine glass of water, a flower from your garden and a packet of seed (if you have them) as well as paper and thick pen, to hand !
Activity Linked Song
Prayers & Lord’s Prayer
Hymn 528, Make me a Channel
Make me a channel of Your Peace.
Where there is hatred
let me bring Your Love;
where there is injury, Your pardon, Lord;
and where there’s doubt, true faith in You.
Oh, Master,
grant that I may never seek
so much to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love with all my soul.
Make me a channel of Your Peace.
Where there’s despair in life
let me bring Hope;
where there is darkness, only light;
and where there’s sadness, ever joy.
Oh, Master,
grant that I may never seek
so much to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love with all my soul.
Make me a channel of Your Peace.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
in giving of ourselves that we receive;
and in dying that we’re born to Eternal Life.
Sebastian Temple (1928-1997) from the Prayer of St Francis
Reading
Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23, The Sower
Comments
Hymn 251, I the Lord of sea and sky
I, the Lord of sea and sky,
I have heard My people cry.
All who dwell in dark and sin
My hand will save.
I, who made the stars of night,
I will make their darkness bright.
Who will bear My light to them?
Whom shall I send?
Here I am, Lord.
Is it I, Lord?
I have heard You calling in the night.
I will go, Lord,
if You lead me.
I will hold Your people in My heart.
I, the Lord of snow and rain,
I have borne My people’s pain.
I have wept for love of them.
They turn away.
I will break their hearts of stone,
give them hearts for love alone.
I will speak My Word to them.
Whom shall I send?
Here I am, Lord.
Is it I, Lord?
I have heard You calling in the night.
I will go, Lord,
if You lead me.
I will hold Your people in My heart.
I, the Lord of wind and flame,
I will tend the poor and lame.
I will set a feast for them.
My hand will save.
Finest bread I will provide
till their hearts be satisfied.
I will give My life to them.
Whom shall I send?
Here I am, Lord.
Is it I, Lord?
I have heard You calling in the night.
I will go, Lord,
if You lead me.
I will hold Your people in My heart.
Daniel L Schutte (b.1947)