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Sunday 31^st January 2021                                           Epiphany 4

Stream Code: https://youtu.be/EC8wHvvNzzk

Leader:                  Grace mercy and peace be with you

All:                       and also with you.

Leader:                  We meet in the presence of God

All:                       Who knows our needs,

                             Who hears our cries,

                             Who feels our pain,

                             And heals our wounds.

Leader:                  All you who are thirsty,

                             This is the place for water.

                             All you who are hungry,

                             This is the place to be fed.

                             Why spend your earnings on what is not food?

                             Why pay for that which fails to satisfy?

                             Here, without money,

                             Here without price,

                             All may enjoy the bread of heaven.

                             God speaks,

                             And all who listen will have life.

Leader:                  Open our lips, O God,

All:                       And our mouths shall proclaim your praise.

Leader:                  The peace of the Lord be always with you

All:                       And also with you.

Leader:      A welcome to our You Tube service and notices

Please join us for coffee on Zoom immediately after this service (click on the second link on this service sheet at the top of page.)

Zoom Children’s Church is at 9:30am via a private link please speak to Rev Trevor Kemp for how to join or see our website.

Messy Church on Zoom 2:30 Sunday January 31^st

Zoom Home Groups-

Wed: contact Martin and Jill Kingston

Thur 7:30pm – Everyone Welcome. just join via our website link or speak to Rev Trev until Lent we will be looking at Everyday Faith.

Zoom coffee mornings weekdays 10:30 (link on Virtual Church Hall tab)

Zoom Night Prayer (compline) 9:00PM Mon-Fri – via website.

ZOOM LENT GROUPS- we are planning Lent Groups to start on the week of February 15^th 2021 using ‘HOLY HABITS-Following Jesus’ a seven part reflection by Andrew Roberts for the Bible Reading Fellowship (BRF). If you would like to be part of a group to run during the day or evening please contact Rev Trev or Liz Collins and let us know when you can meet and we will try to find a group to suit your needs.

A time for reflection and confession:

Leader:        The sacrifice of God is a broken spirit;

                   A broken and contrite heart God will not despise.

                   Let us come to the Lord who is full of compassion,

                   And acknowledge our transgressions in penitence and faith.            

^{c f Psalm51:17}

All:             My God, for love of you

                   I desire to hate and forsake all sins

                   By which I have ever displeased you;

                   And I resolve by the help of your grace

                   To commit them no more;

                   And to avoid all opportunities for sin.

                   Help me to do this,

                   Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Leader:        May Almighty God,

                   Who sent his Son into the world to save sinners,

                   Bring you his pardon and peace, now and for ever.

                   Amen.

Collect Prayer:

                   God of heaven,

                   You send the gospel to the ends of the earth

                   And your messengers to every nation:

                   Send your Holy Spirit to transform us

                   By the good news of everlasting life

                   In Jesus Christ our Lord.

                   Amen.

Reading :            

Leviticus 11: 44 © NRSV

44 For I am the Lord your God; sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming creature that moves on the earth. For I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt, to be your God; you shall be holy, for I am holy.

Isaiah 6: 1-8        © NRSV

6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple. 2 Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. 3 And one called to another and said:

‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;

the whole earth is full of his glory.’

4 The pivots on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke. 5 And I said: ‘Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!’

6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. 7 The seraph touched my mouth with it and said: ‘Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out.’ 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?

PSALM 63: 1-8

1    O God, you are my God; eagerly I seek you;  ♦

my soul is athirst for you.

2    My flesh also faints for you,  ♦

as in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.

3    So would I gaze upon you in your holy place,  ♦

that I might behold your power and your glory.

4    Your loving-kindness is better than life itself  ♦

and so my lips shall praise you.

5    I will bless you as long as I live  ♦

and lift up my hands in your name.

6    My soul shall be satisfied, as with marrow and fatness,  ♦

and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

7    When I remember you upon my bed  ♦

and meditate on you in the watches of the night.

8    For you have been my helper  ♦

and under the shadow of your wings will I rejoice.

                   Glory to the Father, and to the Son

                   And to the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Reading:    Revelation 4: 3-11      © NRSV

and there in heaven stood a throne, with one seated on the throne! ³ And the one seated there looks like jasper and cornelian, and around the throne is a rainbow that looks like an emerald. ⁴ Around the throne are twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones are twenty-four elders, dressed in white robes, with golden crowns on their heads. ⁵ Coming from the throne are flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and in front of the throne burn seven flaming torches, which are the seven spirits of God; ⁶ and in front of the throne there is something like a sea of glass, like crystal.

Around the throne, and on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, …Day and night without ceasing they sing,

          ‘Holy, holy, holy,
          the Lord God the Almighty,
          who was and is and is to come.’

Reflection from the Rectory

Affirmation of faith

Leader:        Let us affirm our faith in Jesus Christ the Son of God

All:             Though he was divine,

                   He did not cling to equality with God,

                   But made himself nothing.

                   Taking the form of a slave,

                   He was born in human likeness.

                   He humbled himself

                   And was obedient to death,

                   Even the death of the cross.

                   Therefore God has raised him on high,

                   And given him the name above every name:

                   That at the name of Jesus

                   Every knee should bow,

                   And every voice proclaim that Jesus Christ is                                    Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

                   Amen.                                                       ^{cf Phil 2 : 6-11}

Now let us pray together

Time to Pray      (Prayers led by Martin Kingston )

Merciful Father,

accept these prayers

for the sake of your Son,

our Saviour Jesus Christ.

Amen.

We say the Lord’s Prayer together

                   Our Father in heaven,

                   Hallowed be your name,

                   Your kingdom come,

                   Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven,

                   Give us today our daily bread,

                   Forgive us our sins,

                   As we forgive those who sin against us,

                   Save us in the time of trial

                   And deliver us from evil,

                   For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours,

                   Now and forever. Amen.

Ending:

Leader:        From where we are to where you need us,

All:             Christ be beside us

                   From what we are to what you can make of us,

All:             Christ be before us.

                   From the mouthing of generalities

                   To making signs of your kingdom,

All:             Christ be beneath us.

                   Through the streets of this world

                   To the gates of heaven,

All:             Christ be above us.

                   Surround us with your presence,

                   Inspire us with your purpose,

                   Confirm us in your love.

All:             Amen.

Blessing:

                   May God the Father,

                   Who led the wise men by the shining of a star

                   To find the Christ, the Light from Light,

                   Lead you in your pilgrimage to find the Lord.

                   Amen.

                   May God who has brought us out of darkness

                   Give us a place with the saints in light

                   In the kingdom of his Son.

                   Amen.

                   May the light of the glorious gospel of Christ

                   Shine in your hearts and transform your lives,

                   To bring light to others.

                   Amen.

                   and the blessing of God almighty,

                   the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

                   be among you and remain with you always. All     Amen.

All:    We go into the world to walk in God’s light,

          To rejoice in God’s love and to reflect God’s glory. Amen.

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