Intimations – Sunday 31 December 2017
Our Praise : : Today all our praise items are taken from Mission Praise (MP)
If you feel more comfortable sitting during the items of praise, please feel free to do so.
Crèche: There is a crèche in the Church Hall behind the Church if anyone wishes to leave their children there during the morning service.
Sunday School and Youth Fellowship close today for the Christmas holiday period. They will resume on Sunday 14 January 2018.
The Ladies’ Bible Study Group : The group meetings are closed for the Christmas holiday period. Meetings resume on Tuesday 9 January 2018.
The Prayer Fellowship : The group meetings are closed for the Christmas holiday period. Meetings resume on Tuesday 9 January 2018.
Pastoral Visits : The Minister asks that he would be kept informed of any member of the congregation who is ill, in hospital or would welcome a visit from him.
Life & Work : Anyone wishing to join the list of those who subscribe to Life and Work should see Morna MacLaren.
FreeWill Offering Envelopes : Please see Bill Marshall if you have not already received your envelopes for 2018.
Anyone who would wish to join the scheme and / or link their givings to Gift Aid should also see Bill.
The Minister and Kirk Session wish all in the congregation a happy, healthy and contended New Year !
MORNING SERVICE
Greetings and Intimations
Hymn MP 560 Praise, my soul, the King of heaven
Reading Daniel 5 : 1 – 9 + 25 – 31 (Pew Bible Page 889)
Hymn MP 237 Holy, holy, holy
Prayer
Offering
Prayer
Reading John 8 : 1 – 11 (Pew Bible Page 1073)
Hymn MP 200 Great is Thy faithfulness
Sermon
Hymn MP 496 O for a thousand tongues to sing
Benediction
EVENING SERVICE – HOGMANAY SERVICE
Greetings and Intimations
Hymn MP 660 The Lord’s my Shepherd
Prayer
Offering
Reading Ecclesiastes 3 : 1 – 14 (Pew Bible Page 670)
Sermon
Hymn MP 31 Amazing grace
Benediction
New Year’s Plan
I tried to think of a clever new phrase –
A slogan to inspire the next 365 days,
A motto to live by this coming New Year,
But the catchy words fell flat to my ear.
And then I heard His still small voice
Saying, “Consider this simple, daily choice:
With each new dawn and close of day
Make new your resolve to trust and obey.”
“Don’t look back caught in regret
Or dwell on the sorrow of dreams unmet;
Don’t stare forward anchored by fear,
No, live in this moment, for I am here.”
“I am all you need. Everything. I Am.
You are held secure by my strong hand.
Give me this one thing – your all in all;
Into my grace, let yourself fall.”
So, at last, I’m ready; I see the way.
It’s to daily follow, trust, and obey.
I enter the New Year armed with a plan.
To give him my everything. All that I am.
