Sunday 10 - Year A
PSALM 33
O come with rejoicing, your praise gladly voicing,
and give to the Lord now the praise that is due.
With melody ringing -- with shouting and singing --
come, praising our God with a song that is new.
With waters collected, and oceans perfected,
the love ever steadfast of God filled the earth.
Let all people wonder, their circumstance ponder --
God's word which is upright gave everything birth.
No nation's designing, or other's inclining,
succeeds in outlasting the thoughts of the Lord,
for kings are unseated, and armies defeated,
their efforts confounded, in time, by God's word.
The intimate measure of God's every pleasure
is found in the heartbeat of all humankind
God's love finds expression in chosen possession,
the people of God held by love unconfined.
And God is befriending, and surely defending,
the people who seek to live under God's claim;
affording protection and steadfast affection,
sustaining and saving all trusting God's name.
O Lord, we are waiting, our soul contemplating
with trust and conviction, your glorious reign;
that on us descending, our broken lives mending,
your love ever steadfast may rest and remain.
Tune: THE ASH GROVE
Abram sets out for an unknown destination on the strength of God's word. Matthew leaves his tax booth at Jesus' invitation, "Follow me".
Using the draped brown cloth from last week might symbolise the journeys into which Abram and Matthew have both been called. Imagine ways in which the maps, inventories, itineraries and packing lists with which most of us prepare to travel with the seemingly unplanned freedom and immediacy with which Abram and Matthew set out.
Offer the opportunity for the congregation to share individual stories of profound journeys which started with nothing more that a word.
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HYMN SUGGESTIONS FOR SUNDAY 10 - YEAR A |
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Genesis 12:1-9 |
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| God gives us a future | TIS 687 |
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| Great God, we sing that mighty hand | TIS 124 |
AHB 52 |
| The God ofAbraham praise | TIS 125 |
AHB 53 |
| Through all the changing scenes of life | TIS 112 |
AHB 30 |
| What God ordains is always good | TIS 109 |
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Psalm 33:1-12 |
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| Eternal Father, strong to save | TIS 138 |
AHB 74 |
| Great God, we sing that mighty hand | TIS 124 |
AHB 52 |
| King of glory, king of peace | TIS 201 |
AHB 129 |
| Lift up your heads, you mighty gates | TIS 267 |
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| Morning has broken | TIS 156 |
AHB 91 |
| O love of God, how strong and true | TIS 139 |
AHB 75 |
| One God, one living God | TIS 742 |
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| Serve you the Lord, heart filled with gladness | TIS 60 |
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| Sing a new song to the Lord | TIS 95 |
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| Thanks to God whose word was spoken | TIS 431 |
AHB 339 |
| We praise, we worship you, O God | TIS 98 |
AHB 1 |
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Romans 4:13-25 |
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| Begin, my tongue, some heavenly theme | TIS 116 |
AHB 32 |
| Faith will not grow from words alone | TIS 691 |
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| Have faith in God, my heart | TIS 619 |
AHB 552 |
| If we will trust in God to guide us | TIS 554 |
AHB 459 |
| O love, how deep, how broad, how high | TIS 194 |
AHB 6 |
| Salvation now to us has come | TIS 195 |
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Matthew 9:9-13,18-26 |
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| All go to God when they are sorely place | TIS 240 |
AHB 182 |
| At the name of Jesus | TIS 231 |
AHB 170 |
| Come as you are, that's how I want you | TIS 693 |
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| Jesus Christ is waiting | TIS 665 |
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| Lord Jesus Christ, lover of all | TIS 737 |
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| O Christ the healer, we have come | TIS 638 |
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| O Jesus Christ, may grateful hymns be ri | TIS 620 |
AHB 553 |
| Sometimes a healing word is comfort | TIS 692 |
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| What does the Lord require | T1S 618 |
AHB 568 |
| Woman in the night | TIS 661 |
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