Live Stream
Order of Service
MORNING WORSHIP
ST COLUMBA’S, PONT STREET
SUNDAY 24th JANUARY 2021, 11.00am
3rd AFTER EPIPHANY
Introduction & Lighting of Candles
Call to Worship
Hymn 509 Jesus calls us! O’er the tumult (St Andrew)
Prayers of Approach
Children’s Talk
Old Testament Readings: Jonah 3:1-10
New Testament Reading: I Corinthians 7:29-31
Anthem: Let thy merciful ears, O Lord (Thomas Mudd)
Gospel Reading: Mark 1:14-20
Hymn 252 As a fire is meant for burning (Beach Spring)
Sermon
Musical Interlude
Prayers of Thanksgiving & Intercession & Lord’s Prayer
Intimations
Hymn 192 All my hope on God is founded (Michael)
Benediction
Organ Postlude: Fugue in A Major no. 9 (Josef Rheinberger)
Hymn 509 Jesus calls us! O’er the tumult (St Andrew)
Jesus calls us! O’er the tumult
Of our life’s wild restless sea,
Day by day his voice is sounding,
Saying, ‘Christian, follow Me’:
As, of old, Saint Andrew heard it
By the Galilean lake,
Turned from home and toil and kindred,
Leaving all for his dear sake.
Jesus calls us from the worship
Of the vain world’s golden store,
From each idol that would keep us,
Saying, ‘Christian, love me more’.
In our joys and in our sorrows,
Days of toil and hours of ease,
Still he calls, in cares and pleasures,
‘Christian, love me more than these’.
Jesus calls us! By your mercy,
Saviour, make us hear your call,
Give our hearts to your obedience,
Serve and love you best of all.
Hymn 252 As a fire is meant for burning (Beach Spring)
As a fire is meant for burning
with a bright and warming flame,
so the church is meant for mission,
giving glory to God’s name.
Preaching Christ, and not our customs,
let us build a bridge of care,
joining hands across the nations,
finding neighbours everywhere.
We are learners; we are teachers;
we are pilgrims on the way.
We are seekers; we are givers;
we are vessels made of clay.
By our gentle, loving actions,
we will show that Christ is light.
In a humble, listening Spirit,
we will live to God’s delight.
As a green bud in the springtime
is a sign of life renewed,
so may we be signs of oneness
’mid earth’s peoples, many-hued.
As a rainbow lights the heavens
when a storm is past and gone,
may our lives reflect the radiance
of God’s new and glorious dawn.
Hymn 192 All my hope on God is founded (Michael)
All my hope on God is founded;
all my trust he will renew.
safe through change and chance he guides me,
only good and only true.
God unknown,
he alone
calls my heart to be his own.
Human pride and earthly glory,
sword and crown betray God’s trust;
though with care and toil we build them,
tower and temple, fall to dust.
But God's power,
hour by hour,
is my temple and my tower.
God's great goodness lasts forever,
deep his wisdom, passing thought:
splendour, light, and life attend him,
beauty springeth out of naught.
Evermore
from his store
new-born worlds rise and adore.
Day by day the mighty Giver
showers gifts on us below;
his desire our souls delight in,
pleasure leads us where we go.
See love stand
at his hand;
joy awaits on his command!
Still from earth to God in heaven
sacrifice of praise be done,
high above all praises praising
for the gift of Christ his Son.
Hear Christ call
one and all:
those who follow shall not fall.
Old Testament Reading: Jonah 3:1-10
The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying, 2“Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.” 3So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three days’ walk across. 4Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s walk. And he cried out, “Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
5And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth. 6When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7Then he had a proclamation made in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: No human being or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not feed, nor shall they drink water. 8Human beings and animals shall be covered with sackcloth, and they shall cry mightily to God. All shall turn from their evil ways and from the violence that is in their hands. 9Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.” 10When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it.
New Testament Reading: I Corinthians 7:29-31
29I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short; from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none, 30and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no possessions, 31and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.
Gospel Reading: Mark 1:14-20
14Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, 15and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.” 16As Jesus passed along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the sea—for they were fishermen. 17And Jesus said to them, “Follow me and I will make you fish for people.” 18And immediately they left their nets and followed him. 19As he went a little farther, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John, who were in their boat mending the nets. 20Immediately he called them; and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men, and followed him.