MORNING WORSHIP

Date: Sunday 6 September 2026

Preacher: Rev Helen Cameron

Order of Service

Welcome

Call to Worship

• Praise the Lord!
  Sing to the Lord a new song,

• For the Lord takes pleasure in his people;
  he adorns the humble with salvation.

Hymn: Singing the Faith: 364

• 1

• O for a thousand tongues to sing
  my great Redeemer’s praise,
  the glories of my God and King,
  the triumphs of his grace!

• 2

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

• 3

• 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.

• 4

• He breaks the power of cancelled sin,
  he sets the prisoner free;
  his blood can make the foulest clean,
  his blood availed for me.

• 5

• He speaks; and, listening to his voice,
  new life the dead receive;
  the mournful, broken hearts rejoice;
  the humble poor believe.

• 6

• See all your sins on Jesus laid:
  the Lamb of God was slain;
  his soul was once an offering made
  that all may heaven gain.

• 7

• In Christ, our Head, you then shall know,
  shall feel, your sins forgiven,
  anticipate your heaven below,
  and own that love is heaven.

Prayers of Praise and Confession and Absolution

Hymn: Singing the Faith: 680

• 1

• Come, Host of heaven’s high dwelling place,
  come earth’s disputed guest;
  find in this house a welcome home,
  stay here and take your rest.

• 2

• Surround these walls with faith and love
  that through the nights and days,
  when human tongues from speaking cease,
  these stones may echo praise.

• 3

• Bless and inspire those gathered here
  with patience, hope and peace
  and all the joys that know the depth
  in which all sorrows cease.

• 4

• Here may the losers find their worth,
  the strangers find a friend;
  here may the hopeless find their faith
  and aimless find an end.

• 5

• Build, from the human fabric, signs
  of how your kingdom thrives,
  of how the Holy Spirit changes life
  through changing lives.

• 6

• So, to the Lord whose care enfolds
  the world held in his hands,
  be glory, honour, love and praise
  for which this house now stands.

Bible reading: Exodus 12:1-14

Hymn: Singing the Faith: 686

• 1

• Jesus, Lord, we look to thee,
  let us in thy name agree;
  show thyself the Prince of Peace;
  bid our jarring conflicts cease.

• 2

• By thy reconciling love,
  every stumbling-block remove;
  each to each unite, endear;
  come, and spread thy banner here.

• 3

• Make us of one heart and mind,
  courteous, merciful, and kind,
  lowly, meek in thought and word,
  altogether like our Lord.

• 4

• Let us for each other care,
  each the other’s burden bear,
  to thy Church the pattern give,
  show how true believers live.

• 5

• Free from anger and from pride,
  let us thus in God abide;
  all the depth of love express,
  all the height of holiness.

Bible reading: Matthew 18: 15-20

Hymn: Singing the Faith: 29

• 1

• Jesus lead us to the Father
  by your Spirit, help us draw near.
  Jesus lead us to the Father
  by your Spirit, help us draw near.

• 2

• As we come with awe and gladness,
  help us draw near.
  As we come with awe and gladness,
  help us draw near.

• 3

• Alleluia, alleluia, help us draw near.
  Alleluia, alleluia, help us draw near.

Sermon

Hymn: Singing the Faith: 655

• 1

• We cannot measure how you heal
  or answer every sufferer’s prayer,
  yet we believe your grace responds
  where faith and doubt unite to care.
  Your hands, though bloodied on the cross,
  survive to hold and heal and warn,
  to carry all through death to life
  and cradle children yet unborn.

• 2

• The pain that will not go away,
  the guilt that clings from things long past,
  the fear of what the future holds,
  are present as if meant to last.
  But present too is love which tends
  the hurt we never hoped to find,
  the private agonies inside,
  the memories that haunt the mind.

• 3

• So some have come who need your help
  and some have come to make amends
  as hands which shaped and saved the world
  are present in the touch of friends.
  Lord, let your Spirit meet us here
  to mend the body, mind, and soul,
  to disentangle peace from pain
  and make your broken people whole.

Prayers of Intercession

The Lord’s Prayer

• Our Father in heaven,
  hallowed be your Name,
  your kingdom come,
  your will be done,
  on earth as in heaven.
  Give us today our daily bread.
  Forgive us our sins
  as we forgive those who sin against us.
  Save us from the time of trial
  and deliver us from evil.
  For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours,
  now and for ever.
  Amen.

Offertory and Dedication

Children return

Hymn: Singing the Faith: 684

• 1

• Here on the threshold of a new beginning,
  by grace forgiven, now we leave behind
  our long-repented selfishness and sinning,
  and all our blessings call again to mind:
  Christ to redeem us, ransom and restore us,
  the love that holds us in a Saviour’s care,
  faith strong to welcome all that lies before us,
  our unknown future, knowing God is there.

• 2

• May we, your children, feel with Christ’s compassion
  an earth disordered, hungry and in pain;
  then, at your calling, find the will to fashion
  new ways where freedom, truth and justice reign;
  where wars are ended, ancient wrongs are righted,
  and nations value human life and worth;
  where in the darkness lamps of hope are lighted
  and Christ is honoured over all the earth.

• 3

• So may your wisdom shine from Scripture’s pages
  to mould and make us stones with which to build
  God’s holy temple, through eternal ages,
  one Church united, strong and Spirit-filled;
  heirs to the fullness of your new creation
  in faith we follow, pledged to be your own;
  yours is the future, ours the celebration,
  for Christ is risen! God is on the throne!

Benediction