All: As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, my Saviour and my God. from Psalm 42.
Approach:
Hymn 197 : As we are Gathered
Hymn 550 ‘As the deer pants for the water.’
Offering: Hymn 505 v1
All Age Talk
Hymn 774 ‘Jesus, name above all names.’
Prayer
Word:
Ephesians 4: 7, 11-16.
Hymn 722 ‘Spirit of God, come dwell within me.’
St. John 5: 1-9.
Sermon: ‘Healing at Bethesda.’
Response:
Hymn 547 ‘What a friend we have in Jesus,’
Prayer/ Lord’s Prayer
Hymn 549 ‘How deep the Father’s love for us.’
Blessing:
Benediction/ Threefold Amen.
Hymn 786: May the God of peace go with us
Thought of the Week
Jesus asked the man by the pool of Bethesda, ‘Do you want to be made whole?’ He then told the man, ‘Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.’ The man obeyed and he walked away whole.
Jesus still asks that question and gives that instruction to us today. In what ways do we need to be made whole, and what are the things from which we need to get up and walk away?
Mortlach and Rothes Church 