Order of Service – 19th January 2025

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Brougham Place Uniting Church Kardlayirdi Karnungga
A Light on the Hill

January 19, 2025

Preacher: Rev Dr Ian Price
Worship Leader: Dr Amanda and Skyla Hutchinson
Reader: Skyla Hutchinson
Musician: Helen Angove
Liturgical week: Second Sunday after Epiphany Colour: Green

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

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

Prelude

Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country

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

We acknowledge that we meet together 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

Call to worship

Come one and all to celebrate the life found in God.
God’s steadfast love is all around us
and from it springs forth new life.

Let us worship the God who is love and life.
Come, let us celebrate once more!

Prayer

We Sing: Breathe On Me Breath of God

Breathe on me, breath of God,
fill me with life anew,
that I may love all that you love
and do what you would do.
Breathe on me, breath of God
until my heart is pure,
until with you I will one will,
to do and to endure.
Breathe on me, breath of God,
and all my life refine,
until this earthly part of me
glows with your fire divine.
Breathe on me, breath of God;
so shall I never die,
but live with you the perfect life
of your eternity.

Together in Song, 407. Edwin Hatch 1835-89. Music from the Revised Church Hymnary 1927 by permission Oxford University Press.

Prayer of Thanksgiving and Confession

Merciful God, we know that you are the eternal one and present within all things; that in you is the fullness of life in all its variety.

We praise you for your beauty and thank you that claim us as your children, moulding us into the likeness of Christ.

Yet we confess there are times when we try to limit your presence in our lives We try to keep you contained to places we think are safe, convenient and easily managed. In your mercy,
forgive us, Lord.

We confess that we sometimes do not share in your celebration of life. Sometimes we are afraid of people who are different, or might need us more than we are willing to give. In your mercy,
forgive us, Lord.

We confess that sometimes we fear your abundance because others find blessing when we wish they would not. In your mercy,
forgive us, Lord.
We turn to you for forgiveness, in the name of Christ.
Amen.

There is nothing that can separate us from The love of God in Christ. We celebrate that our sins are forgiven.
Thanks be to God.

Passing 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.

Duet Amanda and Skyla Hutchinson

Scripture:

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be ignorant. You know that when you were gentiles, you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak. Therefore, I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says “Let Jesus be cursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except by the Holy Spirit.

Now there are varieties of gifts but the same Spirit, and there are varieties of services but the same Lord, and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of power deeds, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.

We Sing: Loving Spirit

Loving Spirit, loving Spirit,
you have chosen me to be –
you have drawn me to your wonder,
you have set your sign on me.
Like a mother you enfold me,
hold my life within your own,
feed me with your very body,
form me of your flesh and bone.
Like a father you protect me,
teach me the discerning eye,
hoist me up upon your shoulder,
let me see the world from high.
Friend and lover, in your closeness
I am known and held and blessed:
in your promise is my comfort,
in your presence I may rest.
Loving Spirit, loving Spirit,
you have chosen me to be –
you have drawn me to your wonder,
you have set your sign on me.

Address – Becoming

We sing: Where the Spirit is, There’s Freedom

    Refrain:
    Where the Spirit is there’s freedom.
    Where the Spirit is, there is life!

Not by the world can our freedom be nourished,
not by our things, only by Spirit.
Practise, my children, to live by the Spirit,
drop all your masks, take freedom’s clothing!

Where the Spirit is there’s freedom.
Where the Spirit is, there is life!
Heaven on earth, here we live, free to
love and to share, carried by joy,
Practise, my children, to live by the Spirit,
daring today to taste God’s future.

Where the Spirit is there’s freedom.
Where the Spirit is, there is life!
Wounds will be healed, eyes will be opened,
imaging God, reflecting Jesus.
Practise, my children, to live by the Spirit,
heaven is here, time made eternal.

Where the Spirit is there’s freedom.
Where the Spirit is, there is life!

Together in Song, 421. Jonas Jonson 1939- Words by permission the World Council of Churches, Geneva.

Offering

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Alternatively, there is an offering bowl near the lectern on the left-hand side at the front of the church.

Offering Prayer

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.

We Sing: Because We Bear Your Name

Lord Jesus, we belong to you,
you live in us, we live in you;
we live and work for you

Because we bear your name.
Help us receive each other, Lord,
for you receive the least of us
and come to us in them –

Because we bear your name.
Bless those who give us any gift,
because they know that we are yours;
reward them with your grace –

Because we bear your name.
Let us acknowledge those as friends
who use your name to right a wrong,
but have not joined us yet –

Because we bear your name.
Let nothing that we do or say
offend the weak so that they fail
and lose their faith in you –

Because we bear your name.
Keep us from missing out on life;
give hands that help, and single sight,
and feet that walk your way –

Because we bear your name.
You are the salt that cleanses us,
so clean us out, and make us fit
for common life with you –

Because we bear your name.

Benediction

Blessing

Postlude

Come and share morning tea together, 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!

This service has been prepared with assistance from

Words for Worship (MediaCom Education)

The Scripture Reading is from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition