Service 7th July 2024

The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This is the Lord’s doing, it is marvellous in our eyes. This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.      Psalm 118: 22-24

Approach:

Hymn 197 ‘As we are gathered, Jesus is here.’

Minister:              The stone that the builders rejected

All:                         has become the chief cornerstone.

Minister:              This is the Lord’s doing,

All:                         it is marvellous in our eyes.

Minister:              This is the day that the Lord has made;

All:                         let us rejoice and be glad in it.      

Psalm 118: 22-24

Prayer.

Word:

2 Samuel 5: 1-7, 9-10.

Hymn 462 ‘The King of Love my Shepherd is.’

St Mark 6: 1-6a.

Sermon: ‘The Home Boy.’

Response:

Hymn 356 ‘Meekness and majesty, manhood and deity.’

Prayer/ Lord’s Prayer.

Hymn 399 ‘My song is love unknown.’

Blessing:

Benediction/ Threefold Amen

Hymn 786 ‘May the God of peace go with us.’

Thought for the week:

“Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us? And they took offence at him.”

St Mark 6: 3. NIV.

How often can we miss God at work in the world because the people involved all seem too ordinary or too familiar?