FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
- Hymn: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (Common Praise #384 – words below)
- Greeting, Land Acknowledgement & Collect of the Day
- First Reading: Joshua 24:1-2a, 14-18
- Psalm 34:15-22 – Taste and see the goodness of the Lord
- Second Reading: Ephesians 6:10-20
- Hymn: Blessed Jesus, At Your Word (Common Praise #559 – words below)
- Gospel: John 6:56-69
- Sermon: Allen Box
- Hymn: We Who Live by Sound and Symbol (Common Praise #69 – words below)
- Prayers of the People: Garth Bulmer
- The Lord’s Prayer (sung)
- Blessing & Doxology
- Hymn: Crown Him with Many Crowns (Common Praise #378 – words below)
PRAISE TO THE LORD, THE ALMIGHTY
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation;
O my soul, praise him, for he is thy health and salvation:
All ye who hear, brothers and sisters draw near,
Praise him in glad adoration.
Praise to the Lord, who o’er all thing so wondrously reigneth,
Shelters thee under his wings, yea, so gently sustaineth:
Hast thou not seen how thy entreaties have been
Granted by what he ordaineth?
Praise to the Lord, who doth prosper thy work and defend thee;
surely his goodness and mercy here daily attend thee:
Ponder anew what the Almighty can do,
if with his love he befriend thee.
Praise to the Lord, who, when tempests their warfare are waging,
Who, when the elements madly around thee are raging,
Biddeth them cease, turneth their fury to peace,
Whirlwinds and waters assuaging.
Praise to the Lord, who when darkness of sin is abounding,
Who when the godless do triumph, all virtue confounding,
Sheddeth his light, chaseth the horrors of night,
Saints with his mercy surrounding.
Praise to the Lord! O let all that is in me adore him!
All that has life and breath, come now with praises before him!
Let the Amen sound from his people again;
gladly for aye we adore him.
BLESSED JESUS, AT YOUR WORD
Blessed Jesus, at your word we are gathered all to hear you.
Let our hearts and souls be stirred now to seek and love and fear you.
By your gospel pure and holy, teach us, Lord, to love you solely.
All our knowledge, sense and sight lie in deepest darkness shrouded
Till your Spirit breaks our night with your beams of truth unclouded.
You alone to God can win us, you must work all good within us.
Glorious Lord, yourself impart! Light of light, from God proceeding,
Open lips and ears and heart, help us by your Spirit’s leading.
Hear the cry your church now raises; Lord accept our prayers and praises.
WE WHO LIVE BY SOUND AND SYMBOL
We who live by sound and symbol, we who learn from sight and word,
Find these married in the person of the one we call our Lord.
Taking bread to be his body, taking wine to be his blood,
He let thought take flesh in action; he let faith take root in food.
Not just once with special people, not just hidden deep in time,
But wherever Christ is followed, earthly fare becomes sublime.
Though to sound it seems a mystery, though to sense it seems absurd,
Yet in faith, which seems like folly, we meet Jesus Christ our Lord.
CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS
Crown him with many crowns,
the Lamb upon his throne.
Hark! how the heavenly anthem drowns
all music but its own.
Awake, my soul, and sing
of him who died for thee,
and hail him as thy matchless king
through all eternity.
Crown him the Lord of life,
who triumphed o'er the grave,
and rose victorious in the strife
for those he came to save;
his glories now we sing
who died and rose on high,
who died eternal life to bring,
and lives that death may die.
Crown him the Lord of peace,
Whose power a sceptre sways
From pole to pole, that wars may cease,
Absorbed in prayer and praise.
His reign shall know no end;
And round his pierced feet
Fair flowers of paradise extend
Their fragrance ever sweet.
Crown him the Lord of love;
behold his hands and side,
rich wounds, yet visible above,
in beauty glorified;
All hail, Redeemer, hail!
For thou hast died for me;
Thy praise shall never, never fail
Throughout eternity.
