Online Church Resources
Sunday 19th April 2020
Welcome
Songs
Prayer
Heavenly Father,
We praise you today for who you are. You are holy. You are pure. You are glorious. In you, there is no fault or blemish. You created our world and you sustain our world and every good thing we have is from you.
Father, we confess today that we are not holy, as you are. We have fallen short of your glory and we regularly rebel against your word. We’ve been proud and selfish and impatient. We’ve been unkind and uncaring. We’ve failed to trust you in so many different places and we’re prone to set our hope on created things for what only you can give. Please forgive us.
We thank you that you have not left us dead in our sin and you don’t treat us as our sins deserve. We thank you for giving us your Son. Thank you that Christ died in our place as a substitute. Thank you that He bore all of your wrath and anger at our rebellion so that we might no longer be your enemies but your children. Forgive us for how often we think too much of ourselves and too little of Christ. Forgive us for thinking that the cross is a small or unimportant thing and remind us of how amazing it is that Christ died and rose from the dead for us.
Lord, we long to be a people who are holy as you are holy. We long for the sin that we struggle with regularly to be gone from our lives. Today we ask that would continue to make us more like Jesus. We ask you to change us. We ask you to not simply modify our behaviour but to change our hearts. Please change our desires so that we want to grow and pray and spend time with you in your word. Please give us the desire to put sin to death in our lives. Give us a greater desire for you and for holiness.
Father, we pray for our community and our world. We pray for those who are fearful, that they would turn to you. We pray that we would be salt and light in the world and speak the hope of the gospel. We pray for those who are lonely, that we would reach out to them and that they would reach out to us. Protect us from being too proud to ask for help when we need it.
Lord, we thank you for your word. We pray that we would understand and respond rightly to you today. Help us to clearly see your will for our lives. Help us to respond with obedience and faith. Help us to continue to cling to your grace, that we might be the holy people you call us to be.
We pray all these things, in the name of the holy one, Jesus.
Amen.
For The Kids
Sermon
Bible Reading (included in video):
1 Thessalonians 4:1-12
1 Thessalonians 5:14-28
Song
Easter Sunday – 12th April 2020
Welcome
Songs
Resurrection Sunday Prayer
“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
John 11:25 – 26
Oh Gracious and loving Father, by whose power we are created and by whose love we are redeemed. You have called us by name to be yours and in relationship with you.
In the same way that the sun has risen today, please cause your Son, our Lord Jesus to rise again in our hearts, that we might see and feel the wonder of Your glory and the power of Jesus, new in our lives.
Please, Lord Jesus, forgive us again for our sin.
We are a people who are full of forgetfulness. We stumble and fail so often. Yet your love is always there, you are full of grace and mercy. Help us walk in the light of Jesus as you are in the light not in the darkness of sin and doubt which we once walked.
We confess to you our need for your forgiveness for….. (take time to consider sins the ones you may be struggling with)
Thank you that your love is so clearly demonstrated again on this resurrection Sunday. That Jesus our Lord has dealt with our sin once and for all. That the slave market of sin no longer bears our name but is in your book of life. Thank you that death no longer has its hold on our lives.
Thank you that you have defeated sin and Satan and death. We have become free through faith in you. Thank you that we are free from the power and penalty of sin and that we have new and everlasting life.
Thank you that while this world is bound to judgement, you in your love have rescued us and set us into your eternal family with Jesus who is both our Lord and brother. Please have mercy on our world, please call my family, my friends and neighbours into this same love that you have shown me. Please Holy Spirit, call them by your power demonstrated in the Gospel that they might be born again.
Please fill us again Holy Spirit, so that as your church we might live in the power that raised Jesus from the dead. So we might glorify your name, help us to treasure the risen Jesus in our lives and in our loves we pray
The day of Resurrection!
St John of Damascus (8th Century)
Earth, tell it out abroad;
The Passover of gladness,
The Passover of God!
From death to life eternal,
From earth unto the sky,
Our Christ has brought us over
With hymns of victory
For The Kids
Check out this video from QuizWorx, then have a go at the activities below.
Sermon
Song
Good Friday – 10th April 2020
Welcome
Songs
Prayer
The Death of Jesus
45 From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 46 And about three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Matthew 27:45-46
Lord God, We thank you that today we can come to you in prayer, knowing that you hear us and that you answer.
We pray for those crying out to you.
For those hospitalised, isolated, alienated.
Struggling to live.
Fighting to breathe.
Battling a horrible disease.
We ask for your peace and healing to be upon those who suffer. We ask for your comfort to be upon those who are fearful. We pray for your protection over those caring for the sick.
This day, we remember you, Jesus.
Man of sorrows, despised and rejected,
wounded for our transgressions,
bruised for our iniquity.
On this most terrible and wonderful day,
we remember that you bore our weakness
and carried our pain.
Father God, as we listen to Jesus’ words
on the cross, reveal our hearts.
Show us the stark truth about ourselves.
Help us to take time to be quiet, to be still,
to reflect on the significance of this day for us.
For too long we have gone our own way,
pleasing ourselves, doing what we want to do.
We have not loved you with all our heart, mind
and soul, and we have not loved our neighbour
as ourselves.
Thank you, Saviour God, that your hands are
always stretched out in blessing and healing.
Hear our prayers for those who feel abandoned and forsaken.
Hold them in their fears.
Walk with them in their darkness.
Comfort them with your presence.
Thank you for winning the victory on the hill
and giving us the opportunity to live again.
For The Kids
Check out this video from QuizWorx, then have a go at the activities below.