AMERSHAM FREE CHURCH
Sunday 20th July 2014 Trinity 5
MORNING WORSHIP WITH COMMUNION
led by The Revd Dr Nicholas Wood
Dean and Fellow at Regent’s Park College, Oxford
All who love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ are invited to receive communion.
If you do not wish to receive the bread and wine
please let them pass by without embarrassment.
GOD INVITES US TO WORSHIP
We stand at the entry of the Bible
Introit
Call to Worship including the greeting:
Minister:
The Lord be with you
All:
and also with you.
Hymn 104: Praise my soul the King of Heaven
Prayers of Praise and Confession, Lord’s Prayer
Welcome and Notices and then The Offering is received
WE LISTEN FOR THE WORD OF GOD
All Age Talk
Hymn:
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?
Refrain: 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.
2. 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?
Refrain
3. 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?
Refrain
Dan Schutte (b.1947) CCL 257120
We remain standing for a prayer of blessing for Junior Church
and then children and young people leave for their Junior Church groups.
Babies and toddlers are welcome in The Crèche.
Readings:
Psalm 139.1-24 O.T. p.524
Romans 8.14-25 NT p.138
this morning’s readers are Lisa and Aidan Mullins
Reader:
All:
In this is the word of the Lord
Thanks be to God
Sermon followed by Silent Reflection
Hymn Bernadette Farrell CCL 257120
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 love everlasting you besiege me:
In ev’ry 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.
Prayers of Intercession
THE COMMUNION
Hymn 339: Great God your love has called us here
The Peace all standing
Minister:
All:
Minister:
All:
The peace of the Lord be always with you
and also with you.
We say for one another:
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the love of God
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit
be with us all evermore.
The Offertory Procession
Minister:
All:
We give thanks to God and sing:
Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
praise him, all creatures here below.
Praise him above, ye heavenly host,
praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
Prayer of Dedication and Invitation to Communion
The Great Prayer of Thanksgiving
Minister:
All:
Minister:
All:
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give him thanks and praise.
Minister:
Therefore with all your people
in heaven and on earth we sing
the triumphant hymn of your glory:
Holy, holy, holy Lord,
God of power and might,
heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes
in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.
All:
Sung: 13 in
hymn book
Words of Institution and Sharing of the bread and wine
The bread and wine are brought to the congregation. The wine is served first – please put your glass in the
bookrack. Once all have been served we eat and drink together.
Post Communion Prayer
Your death, O Lord we commemorate.
Your resurrection we confess.
Your final coming we await.
Glory be to you , O Christ.
Almighty God, we thank you for feeding us with the
body and blood of your Son Jesus Christ.
Through him we offer you our souls and
bodies to be a living sacrifice.
Send us out in the power of your Spirit
to live and work to your praise and glory. Amen
Hymn 586: All my hope on God is founded
Dismissal and Blessing with sung Amen All Standing
Join us for coffee, tea or a cold drink in the Alfred Ellis Hall
where the Fairtrade stall is open.