Sunday 19th February 2012 - 10.30am

WE GATHER TO WORSHIP GOD

Voluntary: Allabreve, BWV 589                                           J S Bach

Introit: The Lord God Omnipotent Reigneth     George Thalben-Ball,
                                                                                               arr. MW

Call to Worship

Praise: 122 Let all the world in every corner sing         Luckington

We bring to God our prayers of
Adoration and Confession

Children’s Time

Praise: 212 Morning has broken            Bunessan

We hear the Word of God

Old Testament:  Psalm 121                      RSV p. 498
                                     (read by Lesley Fraser)
              
Anthem: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem           Charles Villiers Stanford

       Ye choirs of new Jerusalem,
       Your sweetest notes employ,
       The Pascal victory to hymn,
       In strains of holy joy.

       For Judah's Lion bursts His chains,
       Crushing the serpent's head;
       And cries aloud through death's domains
       To wake the imprison'd dead.

       Devouring depths of hell their prey
       At His command restore;
       His ransom'd hosts pursue their way
       Where Jesus goes before.

       Triumphant in His Glory now
       To Him all pow'r is giv'n;
       To Him in one communion bow
       All saints in earth and heav'n.

       While we, His soldiers, praise our King,
His mercy we implore,
Within His palace bright to bring
And keep us evermore.

       All glory to the Father be,
       All glory to the Son,
       All glory, Holy Ghost, to Thee,
       While endless ages run.

       Alleluia!  Amen.
                                                      (St Fulbert of Chartres.)

New Testament:  Mark 9:30-32                    RSV p. 826
                                      (read by Lesley Fraser)

We bring to God our prayers
of Thanksgiving and Intercession
and
The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father,
Which art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors,
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the Kingdom, the power and the glory, forever.     Amen

Intimations

Praise: 4 How excellent in all the earth   Winchester Old

Sermon  Afraid to Ask

We respond to God’s Word with our Offering

Offertory: Air varied (in the Old English style)                 Eric Thiman

Prayer

Praise: 497 Almighty Father of all things that be     Chilton Foliat

Benediction and Threefold Amen

Voluntary: Toccata & Fugue in d, BWV 565                    (?)J S Bach