It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night.
Psalm 92: 1-2. NRSV.
Approach:
Hymn 197 ‘As we are gathered, Jesus is here.’
Min: It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
All: to sing praises to your name, O Most High;
Min: to declare your steadfast love in the morning,
All: and your faithfulness by night.
Hymn 175 ‘Praise, I will praise you, Lord.’
Offering – Hymn 505 v1
All Age Talk
JP 47 ‘For I’m building a people of power.’
For I’m building a people of power
and I’m making a people of praise,
that will move through this land by my Spirit,
and will glorify my precious name.
Build your Church, Lord,
make us strong, Lord,
join our hearts, Lord, through your Son;
make us one, Lord in your body,
in the kingdom of your Son.
Prayer.
Word:
Ezekiel 17: 22-24.
Hymn 599 ‘Holy Spirit, hear us.’
St Mark 4: 26-34.
Sermon: ‘Faith and the small things.’
Response:
Hymn 517 ‘Fight the good fight.’
Prayer/ Lord’s Prayer.
Hymn 529 ‘Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go.’
Blessing:
Benediction/ Threefold Amen
Hymn 786 ‘May the God of peace go with us.’
Thought for the week:
Jesus compared the kingdom of God to the tiny mustard seed that grows into the greatest of shrubs in which the birds of the air can nest.
What tiny seeds can we sow for the kingdom of God that God could grow into a fruitful shrub?
Mortlach and Rothes Church 