10.30am Service 19th May 2013

WE GATHER TO WORSHIP GOD

Voluntary: Veni Creator Spiritus – Prelude             Kenneth Leighton

Introit: If ye love me                                                      Thomas Tallis

Call to Worship

Praise: 582 O Day of joy and wonder!                   Crüger (CH3.327)

We bring to God our prayers of
Adoration and Confession

Children’s Time

Praise: 584 Like fireworks in the night               St John

Children leave for Crèche and Sunday School

We hear the Word of God

Old Testament:        Ezekiel 37: 1-14                    RSV p. 697
                                  (read by Doreen Reekie)

Anthem: Listen sweet dove                                           Grayston Ives

  Listen sweet dove unto my song,
  And spread thy golden wings in me;
  Hatching my tender heart so long,
  Till it get wing and flie away with thee.

  Such glorious gifts thou didst bestow
  The earth did like a heav’n appeare,
  The starres were coming down to know
  If they might mend their wages and serve here.
  
  The sunne which once did shine alone,
  Hung down his head and wisht for night,
  When he beheld twelve sunnes for one
  Going about the world and giving light.

  Lord though we change thou are the same,
  The same sweet God of love and light;
  Restore this day for thy great name,
  Unto his ancient and miraculous right.
                                        George Herbert (1593-1633) 

New Testament:  Acts 2:1-22                       RSV p. 903
                                    (read by Doreen Reekie)

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: 586  Come, Holy Ghost                   Veni Creator

Sermon             Disturbance

We respond to God’s Word with our Offering

Offertory: Chorale Prelude on “Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott”
                                                                              Dietrich Buxtehude
Prayer

Praise: 622 We sing a love that sets all people free        Woodlands

Benediction and Threefold Amen

Voluntary: Fantasia super: Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott,
                 BWV 651                                                             J S Bach