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SONG
Who else commands all the hosts of heaven
Who else could make every king bow down
Who else can whisper and darkness trembles
Only a Holy God
What other beauty demands such praises
What other splendour outshines the sun
What other majesty rules with justice
Only a Holy God
Come and behold Him the One and the Only
Cry out, sing holy forever a Holy God
Come and worship the Holy God
What other glory consumes like fire
What other power can raise the dead
What other name remains undefeated
Only a Holy God
Come and behold Him…
Who else could rescue me from my failing
Who else would offer His only Son
Who else invites me to call Him Father
Only a Holy God
Only my Holy God!
Come and behold Him…
Come and behold Him the One and the Only
Cry out, sing holy forever a Holy God
Come and worship the Holy God
Come and worship the Holy God
WELCOME by Brian Kruger
SONG
Blessed be your name
in the land that is plentiful.
Where your streams of abundance flow,
blessed be your name.
Blessed be your name
when I’m found in the desert place.
Though I walk through the wilderness,
blessed be your name.
Every blessing you pour out I’ll
turn back to praise.
When the darkness closes in, Lord,
still I will say…
Blessed be the name of the Lord, blessed be your name.
Blessed be the name of the Lord, blessed be your glorious name.
Blessed be your name when the sun’s shining down on me.
When the world’s ‘all as it should be’, blessed be your name.
Blessed be your name on the road marked with suffering.
Though there’s pain in the offering, blessed be your name.
Every blessing…
You give and take away. You give and take away.
My heart will choose to say, “Lord, blessed be Your name.”
PRAYERS by Abi Jenkins
SONG
From the breaking of the dawn
to the setting of the sun,
I will stand on every promise of your word.
Words of power, strong to save,
that will never pass away;
I will stand on every promise of your word.
For your covenant is sure,
and on this I am secure:
I can stand on every promise of your word.
When I stumble and I sin,
condemnation pressing in,
I will stand on every promise of your word.
You are faithful to forgive,
that in freedom I might live,
so I stand on every promise of your word.
Guilt to innocence restored;
you remember sins no more.
So I’ll stand on every promise of your word.
When I’m faced with anguished choice,
I will listen to your voice,
and I’ll stand on every promise of your word.
Through this dark and troubled land,
you will guide me with your hand
as I stand on every promise of your word.
And you’ve promised to complete
every work begun in me
so I’ll stand on every promise of your word.
Hope that lifts me from despair;
love that casts out every fear
as I stand on every promise of your word.
Not forsaken, not alone,
for the Comforter has come.
And I stand on every promise of your word.
Grace sufficient, grace for me,
grace for all who will believe.
We will stand on every promise of your word.
BIBLE READING read by Charlie Salter
1 Kings 16:29-17:6
16:29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria over Israel twenty-two years. 30 Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him. 31 He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him. 32 He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria. 33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to arouse the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him.
34 In Ahab’s time, Hiel of Bethel rebuilt Jericho. He laid its foundations at the cost of his firstborn son Abiram, and he set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, in accordance with the word of the Lord spoken by Joshua son of Nun.
17:1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”
2 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: 3 “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. 4 You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”
5 So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
BIBLE TALK by Richard Hopkins
The God of the Bible is the one true God
- Worship Him alone
- Obey Him
- Pray fervently to Him
SONG
There is no other name in heaven can be found
Through whom we are redeemed
Through whom your grace abounds
No other name can save but Jesus Christ our Lord
My joy in sorrowʼs tears
My strength to cast out fears
No other name but Jesus, Jesus
My hope in darkest night
My broken soulʼs delight
No other name but Jesus, Jesus
There is no victory but Jesus crucified
No other cure for sin but that our Saviour died
No other hope we have but that he rose again
No other throne endures, no other song remains
But ʻWorthy is the Lamb, Who was for sinners slainʼ
When every knee shall bow
And tongue confess you are Lord, You are Lord
CONFESSION
Ezra 8 tells us that “the hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.” So let us seek God and his grace and mercy.
Heavenly Father, we praise you for adopting us
as your children and making us heirs of eternal life
in your Son Jesus Christ,
who has freed us from our sins by his blood.
Yet we still fail to love you with all our heart,
or serve you as we ought.
Pardon our offences, we pray, and make us clean,
that we may continue as members of Christ,
in whom alone is salvation.
Amen
SONG
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly trust in Jesus’ name
Christ alone; cornerstone
Weak made strong in the Saviour’s love
Through the storm, He is Lord, Lord of all
When Darkness seems to hide His face
I rest on His unchanging grace
In every high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil
My anchor holds within the veil
Christ alone; cornerstone
Weak made strong in the Saviour’s love
Through the storm, He is Lord, Lord of all
When He shall come with trumpet sound
Oh, may I then in Him be found
Dressed in His righteousness alone
Faultless stand before the throne
Christ alone; cornerstone
Weak made strong in the Saviour’s love
Through the storm, He is Lord, Lord of all
RECEIVING THE LORD’S SUPPER
Our Lord Jesus Christ in his time on earth lived a perfect, sinless life. So on the night he was betrayed, he was able to take bread and when he had given thanks, he could break it and say:
‘This is my body, given for you;
do this to remember me.’
We eat this bread:
to share in the body of Christ.
In the same way, after supper,
he could take the cup and say:
‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, to remember me.’
We drink this cup:
to share in the blood of Christ.
Whenever we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes:
Amen. Come Lord Jesus.
SONG
Be Thou my vision O Lord of my heart.
Nought be all else to me, save that thou art.
Thou my best thought in the day and the night,
waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.
Be thou my wisdom, be thou my true word.
I ever with thee and thou with me, Lord.
Thou my great Father and I thy true heir.
Thou in me dwelling and I in thy care.
Be thou my breastplate, my sword for the fight.
Be thou my armour, and be thou my might.
Thou my soul’s shelter and thou my high tower.
Raise thou me heavenward, O Power of my power.
Riches I heed not nor all the world’s praise.
Thou my inheritance through all my days.
Thou, and thou only, the first in my heart.
High King of heaven, my treasure thou art!
High King of heaven, when battle is done,
grant heaven’s joys to me, bright heaven’s sun.
Christ of my own heart, whatever befall,
still be my vision, O Ruler of all.
CLOSING PRAYER by Brian Kruger
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