Service 23rd March 2025

The steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting  on those who honour him, and his righteousness to children’s children to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.                          Psalm 103: 17-18

Approach:

Hymn 197 : As we are Gathered

Hymn 181 ‘For the beauty  of the earth.’

Offering – Hymn 505 v1

Prayer.

All Age Talk JP 98 ‘ I have decided to follow Jesus‘ v1,3

JP 98
I  have decided to follow Jesus,
I have decided to follow Jesus.
I have decided to follow Jesus,
No turning back, no turning back.

Though none go with me, I still will follow,
Though none go with me, I still will follow,
Though none go with me, I still will follow.
No turning back, no turning back.

Word:

1 John 3: 1-3

Hymn 606 ‘Lord you sometimes speak in wonders.’

St. Mark 10: 13 – 16.

Sermon: ‘Jesus blesses children.’

Response:

Hymn 348 ‘Praise the One who breaks the darkness.’

Prayer/ Lord’s Prayer.

Hymn 577 ‘Christ be beside me.’

Blessing:

Benediction/ Threefold Amen.

Hymn 786: May the God of peace go with us

Thought of the Week

Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.’                                                                      St. Mark 10: 14-15 NRSV

Jesus welcomed children and taught the adults that it is with child like faith that they must enter his kingdom.