Welcome to our Morning Worship, which was recorded by Rev Stephen Haward in the chapel during the week.
We are not meeting in the building during February.

Members of the congregation will have received a copy of the communion service and may like to prepare something to drink and to eat before you begin to listen.

The hymns are all available on YouTube

HYMN Mission Praise 1343 ‘O God, you search me and you know me’
Bernadette Farrell

Welcome and Call to Worship, Prayer, Church News and Bible Reading – Genesis 6:9-22

HYMN ‘All through history’
Becky Drake, CCL 53960

Reading Romans 4:25-5:8 and Sermon

HYMN Mission Praise 33 ‘And can it be that I should gain’
Charles Wesley 1707-88

[Opportunity to pause for Home Communion]
Prayers, Act of Dedication and Blessing

HYMN Mission Praise 1259 ‘Bless the Lord, O my soul’
Jonas Myrin and Matt Redman © 2011 Thankyou Music

Genesis 6:9-22 Good News Translation

Noah and the flood
^9-10 This is the story of Noah. He had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Noah had no faults and was the only good man of his time. He lived in fellowship with God, ¹¹ but everyone else was evil in God’s sight, and violence had spread everywhere. ¹² God looked at the world and saw that it was evil, for the people were all living evil lives.
¹³ God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to all people. I will destroy them completely, because the world is full of their violent deeds. ¹⁴ Build a boat for yourself out of good timber; make rooms in it and cover it with tar inside and out. ¹⁵ Make it 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. ¹⁶ Make a roof for the boat and leave a space of 18 inches between the roof and the sides. Build it with three decks and put a door in the side. ¹⁷ I am going to send a flood on the earth to destroy every living being. Everything on the earth will die, ¹⁸ but I will make a covenant with you. Go into the boat with your wife, your sons, and their wives. ^19-20 Take into the boat with you a male and a female of every kind of animal and of every kind of bird, in order to keep them alive. ²¹ Take along all kinds of food for you and for them.” ²² Noah did everything that God commanded.

Romans 4:25-5:8 NIV – UK

²⁵ He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.
Peace and hope
5 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we^[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. ³ Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; ⁴ perseverance, character; and character, hope. ⁵ And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
⁶ You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. ⁷ Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. ⁸ But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

The Lord’s Prayer (contemporary)

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.
Lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours
now and for ever.
Amen.