Order of Service – 17th November 2024

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Brougham Place Uniting Church
Kardlayirdi Karnungga
A Light on the Hill

Date: 17 November 2024
Preacher: Trevor Phillips
Liturgical week: Pentecost 26, Colour: Green

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

As you wait for worship to begin, please turn your phone to silent.

Prelude

Welcome and Acknowledgment of Country

Naa marni?
(Are you all good?)
Marni Ai!
(Good I am)

We acknowledge that we gather on the land of the Kaurna people. We pay our respect to the elders past and present whose care nurtures this land, its people, its creatures, its plants, and its waters.

Lighting of the Candles / Music by Nigel

Call to Worship

The earth is a sign of the love of God.
God can be seen in all that God has made.

Today, may we see God’s goodness in the world.
And may it be a sign to us,
this day and every day.

Today, let us open our eyes.
Today, let us open our ears.
Let us worship!

We sing: Morning Has Broken

Morning has broken
like the first morning;
blackbird has spoken
like the first bird.
Praise for the singing,
praise for the morning,
praise for them, springing
fresh from the word.
Sweet the rain’s new fall
sunlit from heaven,
like the first dewfall
on the first grass.
Praise for the sweetness
of the wet garden,
sprung from completeness
where his feet pass.
Mine is the sunlight;
mine is the morning
born of the one light
Eden saw play.
Praise with elation,
praise every morning,
God’s recreation
of the new day.

Opening Prayer

Loving God, to ask you to be present with us is like a bird asking for the air to be present under its wings.

You have always been and always will be present with us and in us in ways so much deeper than our knowing.

Like the sun lights the sky, as the earth spins on its axis, like breath fills our lungs, you are with us and in us.

Thanks be to God!

Amen.

Prayer of Confession

Words of Assurance

Friends of God, God is with us, God is within us.

We need only quieten our minds to know the presence and the forgiveness of God.

In this and in every moment. We are forgiven.

Thanks be to God!

Prayer of Adoration and Thanksgiving

Passing of the Peace

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

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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.

Music by Nigel

Scripture Reading: Hebrews 10:1-25

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who approach. Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, since the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sin? But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sin year after year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,

“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
    but a body you have prepared for me;
in burnt offerings and sin offerings
    you have taken no pleasure.
Then I said, ‘See, I have come to do your will, O God’
    (in the scroll of the book it is written of me).”

When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “See, I have come to do your will.” He abolishes the first in order to establish the second. And it is by God’s will that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

And every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, “he sat down at the right hand of God,” and since then has been waiting “until his enemies would be made a footstool for his feet.” For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,

“This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds,”

and he adds,

“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”

Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh), and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful. And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

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

Message

We sing: The Steadfast Love of The Lord

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases
His mercies never come to an end.
They are new ev’ry morning, new ev’ry morning
Great is Thy faithfulness, O Lord
Great is Thy faithfulness.

Sing Twice

Prayers of the People

The Lord’s Prayer

And now with the confidence of the children of God, let us pray the prayer Jesus taught us saying…

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.

Offering

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Alternatively, there is an offering bowl near the lectern on the left-hand side as you exit the church.

Offering Prayer

We sing: Sing for God’s Glory

Sing for God’s glory that colours the dawn of creation,
racing across the sky trailing bright clouds of elation;
Sun of delight succeeds the velvet of night,
warming the earth’s exultation.
Sing for God’s power that shatters the chains that would bind us,
Searing the darkness of fear and despair that could blind us;
Touching our shame with love that will not lay blame,
reaching out gently to find us.
Sing for God’s justice disturbing each easy illusion,
tearing down tyrants and putting our pride to confusion;
Lifeblood of right, resisting evil and slight,
offering freedom’s transfusion.
Sing for God’s saints who have travelled faith’s journey before us,
who, in our weariness, give us their hope to restore us;
In them we see the new creation to be,
spirit of love made flesh for us.

Sending Forth and Benediction

Music by Nigel

Postlude

Come and share morning tea together in the basement. There are stairs behind the organ. Alternatively, if the stairs are a difficulty, invite someone to join you for coffee down the street. All are welcome!

This service has been prepared with assistance from

Words for Worship; Spill the Beans

Bible Reading: New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

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