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The Lord's Supper

25/8/2025

 
Readings:       1 Cor 11:17-26; 27-34
Luke 22:14-23
Sentence:        For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
1 Corinthians 11:26
Collect:           Universal and unchanging God, we are one, unalterably one, with all the human race. Grant that we who share Christ’s blood may, through your unifying Spirit, break down the walls that divide us. Hear this prayer for your love’s sake. Amen. 
Preacher: Glen Ashworth
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Love Builds Up

18/8/2025

 
Readings:       1 Cor 8:1- 9,
1 Cor 9:1-2; 19-25
Sentence:        Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up 1 Corinthians 8:1
Collect:         Come Holy Spirit, to all baptised in your name, that we may turn to good whatever lies ahead. Give us passion, give us fire; make us transform the world from what it is, to what you have created it to be. This we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Preacher:
Glen Ashworth

Let us Lament

11/8/2025

 
Theme:           Let us Lament
Readings:       Lamentations 3:19-24;
Psalm 13
Sentence:        Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. Lamentations 3:22
Collect:       Almighty and everlasting God, by your Spirit the whole body of the Church is governed and sanctified; hear the prayers we offer for all your faithful people that in the ministry to which you have called us we may serve you in holiness and truth; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Position  Glen Ashworth 3rd August 2025

4/8/2025

 
Preacher:       Glen Ashworth
Theme:
           Position
Readings:       1 Corinthians 7:17-24
                         Philippians 2:1-11
Sentence:       Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than                           yourselves. Philippians 2:3
Collect:            God of all the earth, you have given us the heritage of this good and fertile land; grant
                        that we may so respect and use it that others may thank us for what we leave to them;                            through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

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