Prepare (September 30, 2018)

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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REDEEMER VISION - Grow

SERMON

This Sunday we’ll be starting our vision series, looking at the first aspect of our 2020 Vision: ‘Grow’. Gary Aston will be preaching to us from Acts 2:42-47.

LITURGY

COMMITMENT READING

Father God, we ask that you would help us to grow in every way to be more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. 

Remind us that it Jesus who fits the whole body together perfectly, so that it can grow and be built up in love, as each part does its work.

(Based on Ephesians 4:15-16)

MUSIC

• New Again (Sojourn): A song that celebrates the hope we have in Jesus, a hope of an eternal future in which he will make all things new.

• Made Alive (Citizens and Saints): A song that reminds us of the new life we can know in Christ. A celebration that we’ve been brought from death to life in Jesus.

Reflect (September 23, 2018)

Welcome to the Sunday Gathering recap (songs, hymns, liturgy and sermon). This blog gives you an opportunity to reflect on what you heard in the gathering or catch up if you weren’t able to be with us.

*The indented sections are responses read aloud by the congregation during the Gathering

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CHILD DEDICATION

CALL TO WORSHIP

O LORD, you have searched us, and you know us. You know when we sit and when we rise; you perceive our thoughts from afar.

You discern our going out and our lying down, you are familiar with all our ways.

For you created our inmost beings; you knit us together in our mother’s wombs.

We praise you because we are fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful.

(Based on Psalm 139)

Song: All Creatures of our God and King

Song: 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)

Song: Grace Alone

CHILD DEDICATION

We celebrated with two families in Redeemer in our first Child Dedication. The parents dedicated themselves to their God-given responsibility as parents. It was a great opportunity to pray for these parents and commit their children to God. We acknowledged that children are a gift from God and that they are precious in his sight.

PASSING OF THE PEACE

PREACHING OF THE WORD

This week was our first Child Dedication gathering. Tom Thrower gave us a shorter message on why we have a Child Dedication. Listen to that message here.

COMMUNION

Every week we want to respond to what God has done for us in Jesus. One of the great ways he has provided for us to remember the truth of the gospel is giving us communion. As we take the bread and wine we remember what Jesus has done for us.

POST COMMUNION READING

Jesus’ death brings us life and this meal reminds us that we are fed by Jesus and forgiven because of Jesus.

We rejoice that You have died, rose again, and are now with the Father advocating for us. Amen.

With our money, time, and talent we give generously, knowing that through Your Son, Jesus, You have generously given to us.

We rejoice that You have given everything and we joyfully give everything back to Your care. Amen.

Song: Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)

COMMITMENT READING

Father God help us to know true joy, contentment and satisfaction in you. Help us to treasure the good news of Jesus above everything else, looking past our current situations to see your plans and purposes in this world. Amen

Song: It is Well

BENEDICTION

Go as the family of God, adopted through the Son, empowered by the Holy Spirit living as a child of God.

Peace be with you.

And also with you.

Prepare (September 23, 2018)

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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CHILD DEDICATION

SERMON

This Sunday is our first Child Dedication gathering in which Tom Thrower will be preaching a shorter message to us from Psalm 127:3. We will be celebrating the gift of children with two of our families at Redeemer.

LITURGY

CALL TO WORSHIP

O LORD, you have searched us, and you know us. You know when we sit and when we rise; you perceive our thoughts from afar.

You discern our going out and our lying down, you are familiar with all our ways.

For you created our inmost beings; you knit us together in our mother’s wombs.

We praise you because we are fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful.

(Based on Psalm 139)

MUSIC

• All Creatures of our God and King: A song of praise and worship of our God, the author and sustainer of life.

• Be Thou My Vision: A song that asks for God to direct our eyes towards him, that he would be our vision in all that we do.

Reflect (September 16, 2018)

Welcome to the Sunday Gathering recap (songs, hymns, liturgy and sermon). This blog gives you an opportunity to reflect on what you heard in the gathering or catch up if you weren’t able to be with us.

*The indented sections are responses read aloud by the congregation during the Gathering

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TREASURING THE GOSPEL: 

The comfort of the gospel

CALL TO WORSHIP

You, O LORD Most High, are awesome, the great King over all the earth!

You are the King over all the earth and we will sing your praise.

You are the maker of heaven and earth, majesty and honour surround you.

You are the King over all the earth and we will sing your praise.

You reign over the nations; you are seated on your holy throne.

You are the King over all the earth and we will sing your praise.

(Based on Psalm 47 & 96)

Song: All Praise to Him

Song: Jesus is the Lord of All

CONFESSION AND ASSURANCE

We've already heard that God is ruler of all the earth, We've just sung that Jesus is the lord of all, and yet so often our hearts wander and desire to bow down to other masters. We seek the security of prosperity, the false comforts and the pleasures of this world. We don't give Jesus lordship over our lives, instead we let other things rule us and make them our priority instead. Why don't you take a moment to reflect on that now, to confess to God where you see this tendency in your own heart...

Father God, forgive us for not making you our priority, for treasuring so many things above treasuring Jesus and his gospel. Forgive us for being blinded by our current circumstances that we are unable to see you at work. Help us to consider everything else a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus. Amen.

The truth of the gospel is that there is forgiveness for us to be received through faith in Jesus. In putting our trust in him, we can know freedom from all our sin. Let's continue to reflect and sing of that forgiveness together now.

Song: Forgiven

PASSING OF THE PEACE

PREACHING OF THE WORD

Brad Balmer preached the last sermon in our ‘Treasuring the Gospel’ series from 2 Timothy 4:9-22. To listen to that sermon click here.

COMMUNION

Every week we want to respond to what God has done for us in Jesus. One of the great ways he has provided for us to remember the truth of the gospel is giving us communion. As we take the bread and wine we remember what Jesus has done for us.

POST COMMUNION READING

Jesus’ death brings us life and this meal reminds us that we are fed by Jesus and forgiven because of Jesus.

We rejoice that You have died, rose again, and are now with the Father advocating for us. Amen.

With our money, time, and talent we give generously, knowing that through Your Son, Jesus, You have generously given to us.

We rejoice that You have given everything and we joyfully give everything back to Your care. Amen.

Song: Jesus Paid it All

Song: See the Lamb of God

COMMITMENT READING

Father God help us to know true joy, contentment and satisfaction in you. Help us to treasure the good news of Jesus above everything else, looking past our current situations to see your plans and purposes in this world. Amen

Song: It is Well

BENEDICTION

May Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Peace be with you.

And also with you.