Song: Saviour Of The World
Welcome:
Call to Worship
Song: This I Believe – (The Creed)
Prayer Of Confession
Song: God Is Our Strength And Refuge
Affirming our Faith: New City Catechism 20
Song: Now To Him Who Loved Us
Bible Reading: Luke 2: 22-52 – The infant Jesus is presented in the temple, Simeon’s response, known by its Latin title as the Nunc Dimittis (2:29-32), and the account of Jesus’ visit to the temple at age 12.
Bible Memorisation: 1 Kings 18:21b
Song: FCome Now Almighty King
Bible Reading: 1 Kings 19: 1-8
Sermon: The Long Haul
Announcements:
Pastoral Prayer:
Closing Blessing
Song: Your Love So High
Canticum Simeonis: Nunc Dimittis to us infant C of E trebles in days of yore. Roman liturgy intercalated to the gospel-based prayer “Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum, amen” & from Jerome’s majestic Latin to Tyndale’s masterly English adopted, long after his murder as a “heretic”, in the AV, and under brilliant young Tudor Monarch Edward VI, so frequently in the first Book of Common Prayer.
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end, amen.