Prepare (March 15, 2020)

This blog gives you a glimpse into the upcoming Sunday Gathering. It's an opportunity to read through the passage we'll be studying together, pray through some of the liturgy we'll be using, and listen to a selection of the songs we’ll be singing.

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ROMANS: Unity & Mission [Romans 15:1-13].

SERMON

Gary Aston will be preaching from Romans 15:1-13 to us continuing our series in Romans.

LITURGY

We've experienced the love of God, yet so often we find it difficult to love him and others in the way we should. Instead of loving others, for their good, we love them for what we'll get out of it. We seek our good instead of theirs.
Every week, at this point in our gathering, we take a moment to confess our sin before God. It's a time to admit our failing to him and celebrate the forgiveness we can know in Christ. Let's take a moment, in the quiet of our hearts to confession our lack of love for God and for others.

Let's read these words of assurance and encouragement about our God who has shown us what perfect love looks like:

C: Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.

L: This is how God showed his love among us: he sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 

C: This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loves us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

(Based on 1 John 4:7-12)

MUSIC

All I Have is Christ (Sovereign Grace Music): We will be singing a new song on Sunday which you can listen to and familiarise yourself with below!

O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Zach Sprowls): A new take on the old hymn, reminding us of the hope we have in the Gospel, that one day the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory.

Prepare (March 08, 2020)

This blog gives you a glimpse into the upcoming Sunday Gathering. It's an opportunity to read through the passage we'll be studying together, pray through some of the liturgy we'll be using, and listen to a selection of the songs we’ll be singing.

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ROMANS: New Relationships: To Weak & Strong [Romans 14:1-23].

SERMON

Gary Aston will be preaching from Romans 114:1-23 to us continuing our series in Romans.

LITURGY

CALL TO WORSHIP

As we gather today we acknowledge that God is great and glorious
- Christianity starts with God- with a worshipping of him in his glory
- But not only that he is our glorious creator, but also that he our Redeemer 

- That in Jesus he draws close to us
- He reveals his love and his nearness to us
- So our call to worship this week reminds us that God is our creator & our redeemer 

L: God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

C: You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples. With your mighty arm you redeemed your people.

L: No one is like you, LORD; you are great, and your name is mighty in power.

C: You are the true God; the living God, the eternal King. 

(based on Jeremiah 10:6-12; Psalm 77:13-15)

MUSIC

Look and See (The Village Church): A song that helps us gaze upon Christ, to direct our praise and worship to him, the one who has redeemed us.

Before the Throne of God Above: A reminder that we have a new identity in Christ. We can now approach God with confidence because of what Jesus has done for us.

Prepare (March 01, 2020)

This blog gives you a glimpse into the upcoming Sunday Gathering. It's an opportunity to read through the passage we'll be studying together, pray through some of the liturgy we'll be using, and listen to a selection of the songs we’ll be singing.

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ROMANS: New Relationships: The State [Romans 13:1-14].

SERMON

Gary Aston will be preaching from Romans 13:1-14 to us continuing our series in Romans.

LITURGY

COMMITMENT READING

L: Heavenly Father, in a world filled with so much darkness, we pray that we might know the hope that comes with your light.
Jesus, thank you that you entered into the darkness & defeated its power; that you conquered sin & offer rescue to us all. We praise you that one day you will return to bring peace to reign.

C: Help us to live as good citizens who love you and love others. Help us to remember that we belong to an eternal kingdom that will never end.

L: Fill us with the hope and comfort that comes from knowing you as our true King.

Amen.

MUSIC

Lead us Back (Sojourn): A song of confession that we so often seek security, comfort and the worship of other idols above God. A plea that God would lead us back to life in him.

Forgiven (Sovereign Grace): A song of confession and assurance that reminds us we are forgiven through the blood of Christ, despite the ways we fail God and fail one another.

Prepare (February 23, 2020)

This blog gives you a glimpse into the upcoming Sunday Gathering. It's an opportunity to read through the passage we'll be studying together, pray through some of the liturgy we'll be using, and listen to a selection of the songs we’ll be singing.

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ROMANS: New Relationships: To Friends & Enemies [Romans 12:9-21].

SERMON

Gary Aston will be preaching from Romans 12:9-21 to us continuing our series in Romans.

LITURGY

CONFESSION AND ASSURANCE

In his word God tells us that the church is the body of Christ, with Jesus as the head. When the Bible uses this language, it tells us that all parts of the body are different and yet necessary in order for it to flourish and grow. God also tells us in his word that our sin, our rejection of him affects our relationships with one another so we fail to love and serve one another as we should. 

Take a moment to reflect on that now, to reflect on ways we fail to see our need for each other and how our sin affects our relationships with one another.

Father God, we ask that you would help us in this. Thank you that in trusting in Jesus we are brought into your family. Thank you that we have a new identity as your people and as your church. Help us live out this calling as a response to the generosity you have shown to us in Christ. Amen.

MUSIC

And Can it Be: We will be singing a new song on Sunday, a modernised version of And Can it Be which you can listen to here.

Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone) (Chris Tomlin): An adapted version of the old hymn, celebrating the grace we have received from God and the freedom we can know in Christ.