Sermon 1st Jan 2023 10am gathering

We have recorded our talk in case you missed it or want to listen again. Here is the OOS together with our bible reading. Please do get in touch with us if you need prayer for anything at all.

Order of Service - 10am Family Worship - 1st January 2023
The Gift

Welcome and notices
Opening Song: The Calypso Carol
Readings: Ps. 18 v1-3 and v16-19
John’s gospel 1 v1-5 and v10-12 NRSVA
Song: Walking in the light of God
Talk
Song: In the bleak mid-winter
Family prayers
Song: How deep the Father’s love for us
CRAFT time
Song: Joy to the world
Dismissal

Readings:

Psalm 18
1 I love you, O LORD, my strength.
2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer,
my God, my rock in whom I take refuge,
my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
3 I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised;
so I shall be saved from my enemies.

16 He reached down from on high, he took me;
he drew me out of mighty waters.
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy,
and from those who hated me;
for they were too mighty for me.
18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity;
but the LORD was my support.
19 He brought me out into a broad place;
he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

John 1 - The Word Became Flesh
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 4 in him was life,[a] and the life was the light of all people. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to what was his own,[c] and his own people did not accept him. 12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,