Week beginning 21st November 2021
Reading: Psalm 93
Song: Meekness and Majesty
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Prayer:
God, You reign!
Robed in majesty and armed with strength,
You hold our world and our lives securely.
Your throne has stood for all eternity.
From everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
Even when the waters rise up—
when surging seas threaten to overwhelm us,
and pounding waves crash around us—
we know that You are mightier,
You are more powerful than the threats we face.
Holy God,
Your decrees are firm and unshakeable
and will last forevermore.
Amen
Reading: Revelation Chapter 1: verses 4-8.
Poem:
The
Alpha and Omega is Your great name.
The Beginning and the End,
forever the same.
There before the dawning of life upon the
earth.
And at the end You will be, at creations new
birth.
Written in this book of Revelation for all to
see
is a message to the churches telling of what will be.
The
Water of life is given that will surely satisfy
for those who
thirst and come will never be passed by.
We hear these
words from the First and the Last
as time concludes and history
fades into the past.
'It is done, behold all things are now made
new, '
and the new heaven and earth burst into view.
At
the commencement of that great Eternal Day
when the ages of
earth have faded and passed away.
Then the One who is the
Beginning and the End
will be this poor persons Saviour and
Eternal Friend.
Roy Allen
Song: Jesus stand among us
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Reading: John’s gospel, chapter 18: verses 33-38.
Delores Williams grew up in the South and remembers Sunday mornings when the minister shouted out: "Who is Jesus?" The choir responded in voices loud and strong: "King of kings and Lord Almighty!" Then, little Miss Huff, in a voice so fragile and soft you could hardly hear, would sing her own answer, "Poor little Mary's boy." Back and forth they sang: KING OF KINGS, Poor little Mary's boy. Delores said, "It was the Black church doing theology." Who is Jesus? "King of Kings" cannot be the answer without seeing "poor little Mary's boy."
The images clash. One is big and powerful, the other small and poor. Christ the King Sunday is a dissonant day. Some congregations have changed the name to Reign of Christ Sunday to avoid the male image of "king." But that doesn't make much difference if we forget that Jesus is "poor little Mary's boy."
Barbara Kay Lundblad
Song: At the Name of Jesus.
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