Song: Behold The Lamb
Welcome:
Call to Worship
Song: It Is Finished
Prayer Of Confession
Song: When We Walk With The Lord
Affirming our Faith
Song: Now To Him Who Loved Us
Bible Reading: Acts 2:14-47 – The first Christian sermon.
Bible Memorisation: Matthew 5:3-6
Song: At The Name Of Jesus
Bible Reading: Matthew 18:21-35
Sermon: Blessed Mercy
Announcements:
Pastoral Prayer:
Closing Blessing
Song: 10,000 Reasons
Envy is a track from Sierra Hull’s 25 Trips.
Another demonstration of building on bluegrass roots and going in interesting directions.
In a world that viewed itself as growing more and more pacific the idea that God should be without wrath – a deified reflection of itself made some sort of sense.
In a world that is more and more quick to dwell in outrage, the idea that God should be without wrath is peculiar.
From Fleming Rutledge.
The Biblical message is that the outrage of God is first of all in the heart of God. If we are resistant to the idea of the wrath of God, we might pause to reflect the next time we are outraged about something – about our property values being threatened, or our children’s educational opportunities being limited, or our tax breaks being eliminated. All of us are capable of anger about something. God’s anger, however, is pure. It does not have the maintenance of privilege as its object, but goes out on behalf of those who have no privileges. The wrath of God is not an emotion that flares up from time to time, as though God has temper tantrums; it is a way of describing his absolute enmity against all wrong and his coming to set matters right.
Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion – Understanding The Death Of Jesus Christ Eerdmans, Grand Rapids MI, 2015, pg 129-130.
An interesting slice of life series of articles at the Songfacts webpage focuses on the changes to their lives that writers of famous songs have experienced.
In most cases these are not the people who sang the songs that became hits.
Some of the names are familiar, lots aren’t.
But each story demonstrates that one world-wide hit makes a difference in a song-writer’s life.
One example is Julie Gold, who wrote the song From A Distance while struggling to make ends meet in a job as a secretary.
When Bette Midler recorded it, Gold never had to work as a secretary again.
They’re Playing My Song at Songfacts.
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