Sunday Worship, 20th March 2022. Order of Service.

Order of Service
3rd Sunday of Lent

Sunday 20th March 2022

This morning Service will be led by
Revd Dr D. Cameron McPherson

A warm welcome is extended to all.
Please join us for a time of
fellowship and refreshment
in Hamilton Hall after the service

Entry of God’s Word
(Please stand if you are able)
Welcome and Intimations
Call to Worship

MP 496
Oh for a thousand tongues to sing
My great Redeemer’s praise
The glories of my God and King
The triumphs of His grace

Jesus! the name that charms our fears
That bids our sorrows cease
’Tis music in the sinner’s ears
’Tis life and health and peace

He breaks the power of cancelled sin
He sets the prisoner free
His blood can make the foulest clean
His blood availed for me

He speaks, and listening to His voice
New life the dead receive
The mournful, broken hearts rejoice
The humble poor believe

Hear Him, ye deaf; His praise, ye dumb
Your loosened tongues employ
Ye blind, behold your Saviour come
And leap, ye lame, for joy

My gracious Master, and my God
assist me to proclaim
to spread through all the world abroad
the honours of Thy name.

Prayer of Approach & Confession

SCRIPTURE READING
John 4: 43-54 Rosemay Clarkson

CH4 533
Will you come and follow me
if I but call your name?
Will you go where you don’t know
and never be the same?
Will you let my love be shown,
will you let my name be known,
will you let my life be grown
in you and you in me?

Will you leave your self behind
if I but call your name?
Will you care for cruel and kind
and never be the same?
Will you risk the hostile stare
should your life attract or scare,
will you let me answer prayer
in you and you in me?

Will you let the blinded see
if I but call your name?
Will you set the prisoners free
and never be the same?
Will you kiss the leper clean
and do such as this unseen,
and admit to what I mean
in you and you in me?

Will you love the ‘you’ you hide
if I but call your name?
Will you quell the fear inside
and never be the same?
Will you use the faith you’ve found
to reshape the world around
through my sight and touch and sound
in you and you in me?

Lord, your summons echoes true
when you but call my name.
Let me turn and follow you
and never be the same.
In your company I’ll go
where your love and footsteps show.
Thus I’ll move and live and grow
in you and you in me.

Offering and Prayer of Dedication
Prayer of Intercession

MP 251
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
In a believer’s ear!
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
And drives away his fear.
It makes the wounded spirit whole
And calms the troubled breast;
’Tis manna to the hungry soul,
And to the weary, rest.
Dear Name! the Rock on which I build,
My Shield and Hiding Place,
My never-failing treasury filled
With boundless stores of grace!
Jesus! my Shepherd, Husband, Friend,
My Prophet, Priest, and King;
My Lord, my Life, my Way, my End,
Accept the praise I bring.
Weak is the effort of my heart,
And cold my warmest thought;
But when I see Thee as Thou art,
I’ll praise Thee as I ought.
Till then I would Thy love proclaim
With every fleeting breath,
And may the music of Thy name
Refresh my soul in death

SERMON
The Growing Faith of a VIP

MP 760
When we walk with the Lord in the light of his Word
What a glory He sheds on our way!
While we do His good will, He abides with us still,
And with all who will trust and obey.

Refrain -Trust and obey, for there’s no other way
To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.

Not a shadow can rise, not a cloud in the skies,
But his smile quickly drives it away;
Not a doubt or a fear, not a sigh nor a tear,
Can abide while we trust and obey. Refrain

Not a burden we bear, not a sorrow we share,
But our toil He doth richly repay;
Not a grief nor a loss, not a frown or a cross,
But is blest if we trust and obey – Refrain

But we never can prove the delights of His love
Until all on the altar we lay;
For the favour He shows, and the joy He bestows,
Are for them who will trust and obey –
Refrain

Then in fellowship sweet we will sit at his feet,
Or we will walk by his side in the way;
What he says we will do, where he sends we will go,
Never fear, only trust and obey – Refrain

BENEDICTION
THREE FOLD AMEN

INTIMATIONS SUNDAY 20TH MARCH

A warm welcome is extended to all joining us for worship today.

A very warm welcome to Revd Cameron McPherson who is conducting our service today. Also to Audrey McKirdy who has again stepped in to play for us.

It is with sorrow and regret that we have to intimate the death of one of our Elders Andrew Gilmour. Andrew died on Wednesday afternoon. Our thoughts and prayers are with Prim and their family at this very sad time.

The service this morning will be recorded for the Church Website and Facebook page.

Tea and coffee will be served in Hamilton Hall after the service. Please remain seated and you will be served.

The flowers this week were gifted by Mrs Joan Harvey
The flowers next week will be gifted by Mrs Janet Goldie

Please continue to pray for those people on the prayer list
Rita and Sommerville, Willie Miller, Colin and Marion McAllister,
Margaret Kent, John Grove, Forbes Gillespie, Anne Brown and her son Alistair, Norval Toryusen, Helen Hamilton, Janette McPhee
Sommerville Fairley has been admitted again to hospital.He is having trouble with his breathing and is receiving intravenous drugs for the swelling in his leg.
Also remembering those in our congregation who have Covid.

Our service next Sunday will be conducted by Revd Alastair Lusk

The collection of clothes and food for the Ukraine took place in Hamilton Hall from Monday to Friday last week and has been a great success.
Thank you very much to everyone who helped with this.

Sunday Worship, 13th March 2022. Order of Service.

Order of Service
Sunday 13th March, 2022
“2nd Sunday of Lent”

This morning Service will be led by
Revd Bev Gauld

A warm welcome is extended to all.
Please join us for a time of
fellowship and refreshment
in Hamilton Hall after the service

Entry of God’s Word
(Please stand if you are able)

Welcome and Intimations

Call to Worship

MP 237
Holy, holy, holy
Lord God almighty
Early in the morning my song shall rise to thee
Holy. holy, holy merciful and mighty
God in three persons, blessed Trinity

Holy, holy, holy
All the saints adore Thee
Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea
All the cherubim and seraphim are falling down before Thee
Which wert and art and evermore shalt be

Holy, holy, holy
Though the darkness hide Thee
Though the eyes of sinful man Thy glory may not see
Only Thou art holy, there is none beside Thee
Perfect in power, in love and purity

Holy, holy, holy
Lord God almighty
All Thy works shall praise Thy name in earth and sky and sea
Holy, holy, holy
Merciful and mighty
God in three persons, blessed Trinity

Prayer of Approach & Confession

MP 575
Rejoice, the Lord is King! Your Lord and King adore;
mortals give thanks and sing, and triumph evermore;
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice;
rejoice, again I say, rejoice!

Jesus, the saviour, reigns, the God of truth and love;
when he had purged our stains he took his seat above;
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice;
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!

His kingdom cannot fail, he rules both earth and heaven,
the keys of death and hell are to our Jesus given;
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice;
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!

He sits at God’s right hand till all his foes submit,
and bow to his command, and fall beneath his feet:
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice;
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!

Rejoice in glorious hope! Jesus the Judge shall come,
and take his servants up to their eternal home.
We soon shall hear the archangel’s voice;
God’s trumpet call shall sound, rejoice!

READINGS
Psalm 16 Mike Taylor
Acts 2: vs 14 & 22-23 Karyn Scotland
John 20: 19-31 Heather Scotland

MP 683
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy,
like the wideness of the sea;
there’s a kindness in his justice
which is more than liberty.

There is no place where earth’s sorrows
are more keenly felt than heaven:
there is no place where earth’s failings
have such gracious judgement given.

There is plentiful redemption
through the blood that Christ has shed;
there is joy for all the members
in the sorrows of the head.

For the love of God is broader
than the measure of our mind;
and the heart of the eternal
is most wonderfully kind.

If our love were but more simple,
we should take him at his word;
and our lives would be illumined,
by the glory of the Lord.

SERMON

MP76
‘Christ, the Lord, is risen today!’ – Hallelujah!
All creation join to say: – Hallelujah!
Raise your joys and triumphs high; – Hallelujah!
Sing, you heavens, and earth reply: – Hallelujah!

Love’s redeeming work is done!
Fought the fight, the battle won:
see, our Sun’s eclipse has passed,
see, the light returns at last!

Vain the stone, the watch, the seal:
Christ has burst the gates of hell;
death in vain forbids him rise
Christ has opened paradise:

Lives again our glorious King;
where, O death, is now your sting?
Once he died, our souls to save;
where’s your victory, boasting grave?

Soar we now where Christ has led,
following our exalted Head;
made like him, like him we rise;
ours the cross, the grave, the skies:

Hail the Lord of earth and heaven!
Praise to you by both be given;
every knee to you shall bow,
risen Christ, triumphant now!

Offering and Prayer of dedication
Prayers for others

MP 689
Thine be the glory
Risen conquering Son
Endless is the victory
Thou o’er death hast won
Angels in bright raiment
Rolled the stone away
Kept the folded grave clothes
Where Thy body lay
Refrain-Thine be the glory
Risen conquering Son
Endless is the victory
Thou o’er death hast won

Lo! Jesus meets us
Risen from the tomb
Lovingly, He greets us
Scatters fear and gloom
Let the church with gladness
Hymns of triumph sing
For her Lord now liveth
Death hath lost its sting –Refrain

No more we doubt Thee
Glorious Prince of life
Life is naught without Thee
Aid us in our strife
Make us more than conquerors
Through Thy deathless love
Bring us safe through Jordan
To Thy home above-Refrain

Benediction
Three fold Amen

INTIMATIONS SUNDAY 13TH MARCH

A warm welcome is extended to all joining us for worship today.

A warm welcome again to Revd Bev Gauld

The service this morning will be recorded for the Church Website and Facebook page.

Tea and coffee will be served in Hamilton Hall after the service. Please remain seated and you will be served.

The flowers this week were gifted by Mrs Margaret Baillie
The flowers next week will be gifted by Mrs Joan Harvey

Any items for the April Newsletter must be in the hands of the Editor today.

Please continue to pray for those people on the prayer list.
Rita and Sommerville, Willie Miller, Colin and Marion McAllister, Margaret Kent, John Grove, Forbes Gillespie, Anne Brown and her son Alistair, Norval Toryusen, Helen Hamilton.
Andrew Gilmour is in hospital pretty poorly. Please keep Andrew and Prim in your thoughts and prayers.
Our service next Sunday will be conducted by Revd Cameron McPherson

Two years ago today we held worship here in Dalserf for the last time before the Covid regulations prevented us from using this building.
We were very fortunate in our Locum at the time Revd John Stevenson and his son in law who stepped in and provided us with recorded services. Who knows what we as a congregation would have done without John and Ewan. They provided us with, prayers, readings, a sermon all accompanied by beautiful singing, and in doing so gave us wonderful memories at a time when all of us were low and in need of comfort. We thank God for all like them who provided this service. We now go forward with God and pray that we will be able to continue with our worship and fellowship in the future.

UKRAINIAN DISASTER
The Kirk Session has agreed to send £1000 from the Benevolent Fund to the Ukrainian Refugee Appeal.
Individual members are encouraged, if they have not already done so, to donate to the relief of suffering in this appalling humanitarian disaster.
The concentration of grief that appears daily in the media should motivate us all to respond in an open handed manner during this time of crisis.

GUIDLINES FOR PLACES OF WORSHIP
Scottish Government and Church of Scotland guidance for places of worship during the present Pandemic is about to change within the next two weeks.
As we come out of this 2 year period of regulations and restrictions let’s give God all the praise for our safety, give thanks to all who have worked tirelessly to bring us to where it is now and remember all who have suffered illness and loss.
May we continue to have the safety of others in mind and do all we can to respect each other and keep each other safe.