Order of Service – 14th April 2024

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Brougham Place Uniting Church
Kardlayirdi Karnungga
A light on the hill

April 14, 2024. 10.00 am
Easter 3
Liturgical colour: White

We acknowledge the Kaurna people as the traditional carers of the land on which our church is built.

Prelude:

Duet: A Handel Easter Medley
Helen Angove / Jacob Wilson

Welcome and Acknowledgment of Country

Niina marni!
Marni’ai!

Introit and Lighting of the Candles

On the Journey to Emmaus
Marty Haugen, Irish tune 1995, GIA Publications.

Call to Worship

Opening Prayer

We Sing: Christ the Lord is Risen Today

Christ the Lord is risen today:
   Hallelujah!
Let the whole creation say:
   Hallelujah!
Raise your joys and triumphs high:
   Hallelujah!
Sing now, heaven, and earth reply:
   Hallelujah!
Love’s redeeming work is done;
fought the fight, the battle won;
vain the stone, the watch, the seal:
Christ has burst the gates of hell.
Lives again our glorious king;
where, O death, is now your sting?
Once he died our souls to save;
where your victory, O grave?
Soar we now where Christ has led,
following our exalted Head;
made like him, like him we rise:
ours the cross, the grave, the skies.

Together in Song, 370. Charles Wesley 1707-88 alt. Public Domain.

Prayer of Confession

Words of Grace

… In the name of God, I declare to you, our sin is forgiven.
Thanks be to God.

Passing of the Peace

The peace of our God be with you.
And also with you.

Community News and Notices

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Children’s Time

Children may go downstairs for Sunday School. Parents, you are welcome to join your child in Sunday School if you feel your child may need your assistance. Alternatively, you may wish for your child to remain with you for the duration of worship. Activity packs are available at the entrances.

Choral Anthem

Jesus is Risen Alleluia
RSCM 28 Arr John Bell, Iona. Tanzanian melody.

Scripture Reading:

Luke 24:36b-48

While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost.

He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”

And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate in their presence.

Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you – that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.”

Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day,” and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

You are witnesses of these things.

From this, shines forth the Word of God.
Thanks be to God.

Address

We Sing: The Heavens Shall Declare

The heavens shall declare
The glory of his name,
all creation bow at the coming of the King:
every eye shall see,
every heart will know,
every knee shall bow,
every tongue confess
holy, holy, holy is the Lord;
see the coming of the King:
holy is the Lord.

Together in Song 746. Geoffrey William Bullock 1955 – Words and music from Songs of Geoff Bullock by permission Nighlight Music Group (Aust). Words used with permission under copyright CCLI Licence No 137219. Copyright cleared music for churches.

Offering

To give electronically please go to bpuc.org/give
Alternatively, there is an offering bowl near the lectern on the left-hand side as you exit the church.

Chimes: Cross of Jesus, Together in Song 136

Offering Prayer

Prayers of the People

The Lord’s Prayer

…Let us pray together in the words that Jesus taught us:

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.

Save us from the time of trial

and deliver us from evil.

For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours

now and forever. Amen.

We Sing: Eternal Light Shine in My Heart

Eternal light, shine in my heart;
eternal hope, lift up my eyes;
eternal power, be my support;
eternal wisdom, make me wise.
Eternal life, raise me from death;
eternal brightness, help me see;
eternal Spirit, give me breath;
eternal Saviour, come to me;
until by your most costly grace,
invited by your holy word,
at last I come before your face
to know you, my eternal God.

Sending Forth and Benediction

Choral Blessing

May the God of Peace Go with Us
Scottish trad. Melody, Church Hymnary 786.

Postlude

Chimes: All Glory, Praise and Honour
Together in Song 333

Please join us for morning tea in the basement. There are stairs behind the organ and a ramp between the church and the car park leading to the basement. You are welcome!