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Christ Church Stocksbridge

“Together at Home” with

Green Moor & Crane Moor

A Wise Heart Sunday 10th October 2021Introit - Choir

Call to worship Come and meet the Lord who loves us and is all we need. Come, rejoice and be glad as we worship together. Satisfy us with your steadfast love that we may rejoice and be glad all our days, and gain a wise heart. Loving Lord, you know us better than we know ourselves. As we come together to worship you, help us to explore our relationship with you. May your words and challenges strengthen and affirm us. May your love sustain us and guide us. May our worship be acceptable to you. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

First Hymn No. 28 StF - first three verses only

1. Jesus calls us here to meet him as, through word and song and prayer, we affirm God’s promised presence where his people live and care. Praise the God who keeps his promise ; praise the Son who calls us friends ; praise the Spirit who, among us, to our hopes and fears attends.

2.Jesus calls us to confess him Word of life and Lord of all, sharer of our flesh and frailness, saving all who fail or fall. Tell his holy human story ; tell his tales that all may hear ; tell the world that Christ in glory came to earth to meet us here.

3.Jesus calls us to each other, vastly different though we are ; creed and colour, class and gender neither limit nor debar. Join the hand of friend and stranger ; join the hands of age and youth ; join the faithful and the doubter in their common search for truth.

Children's activity and Children's Blessing before they leave for their own time together

Joys and Concerns, Birthdays

Offertory Prayer

Second Hymn No. 513 StF

1.Take this moment, sign and space; take my friends around; here among us make the place where Your love is found.

2. Take the time to call my name, take the time to mend who I am and what I've been, all I've failed to tend.

3. Take the tiredness of my days, take my past regret, letting Your forgiveness touch all I can't forget.

4. Take the little child in me, scared of growing old;help me here to find my worth made in Christ's own mould.

5. Take my talents, take my skills, take what's yet to be; let my life be Yours, and yet, let it still be me.

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29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life. 31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

WORD

Prayers of Intercession

Third Hymn 566 StF

1.Take my life and let it be consecrated Lord to Thee Take my moments and my days, Let them flow in ceaseless praise

2.Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of Thy love Take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for Thee

3.Take my voice and let me sing always, only for my King Take my lips and let them be filled with messages from Thee

4.Take my silver and my gold, not a might would I withhold Take my intellect and use every power as thou shalt choose

5. Take my will and make it Thine, it shall be no longer mine Take my heart, it is Thine own, it shall be Thy royal throne

6.Take my love, my Lord I pour at Your feet, it's treasure store Take myself and I will be ever, only, all for Thee

BlessingThe GraceThe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, Be with us all, evermore. Amen

VesperTake Oh take me as I am; Summon out what I shall be; Set your seal upon my heart and live in me. X 2

Now let’s all enjoy a cup of coffee or tea together.

Prayers of Thanksgiving and The Lord's Prayer Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be your Name. Your Kingdom come. Your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

Lectionary Readings : Amos 5.6-7,10-15; Psalm 90.12-17; Hebrews 4.12-16; Mark 10.17-31

First Reading : Amos 5.6-7, 10-15

6. Seek the Lord and live, or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire; it will devour them, and Bethel will have no one to quench it. 7 There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground.

10. There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth. 11 You levy a straw tax on the poor and impose a tax on their grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them; though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine. 12 For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts. 13 Therefore the prudent keep quiet in such times, for the times are evil. 14 Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is. 15 Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

Second Reading : Mark 10.17-31

The Rich and the Kingdom of God 17 As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 18 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. 19 You know the commandments: ‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not de-fraud, honor your father and mother.’[a]” 20 “Teacher,” he declared, “all these I have kept since I was a boy.”21 Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”22 At this the man’s face fell. He went away sad, be-cause he had great wealth. 23 Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “Children, how hard it is[b] to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” 26 The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, “Who then can be saved?”27 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.” 28 Then Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!”