McPhail Baptist Church
Prelude: “Matins” (Healey Willan)
Hymn: “You Servants of God”
Prayer
Great and majestic God, your creative power, your glory and holiness are beyond our imagining, yet You chose to pour your love into our hearts in a most personal way—by sharing our humanity in Jesus Christ. He revealed the human face of your love, and through His sacrificial love demonstrated the depth of divine love for us.
Loving God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer, we come seeking forgiveness, for when we have failed to live out the commandment to love one another as Christ loves us. Forgive us when we have judged others by their possessions or achievements, rather than accepting them as persons loved and accepted by You. Fill us anew with your creative and life-changing power that we may glorify your name in all that we say and do. Amen.
Special Music: “If I Can Help Somebody” Rennatha Bernadin
We welcome Rennatha back to our online service this morning, singing a soulfully inspired version
of one of Dr. King’s favourite pieces “If I Can Help Somebody.”
Scripture Reading
Matthew 6:25-34 NRSV
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink,[a] or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?[b] 28 And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ 32 For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But strive first for the kingdom of God[c] and his[d] righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 “So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today.
Colossians 3:12-15 NRSV
12 As God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. 13 Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord[a] has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful.
Hymn: “Crown Him With Many Crowns”
Sermon: "Don't Go There!"
Rev. Ernie Cox
Hymn: “We Are Called To Be God’s People”
Benediction
Postlude “Praise To The Lord, The Almighty”
(J. G. Walther)
It was really nice to listen to. The conclusion about the story of the boy and the dog remind me our dog (Sonya) who is 5yrs old..
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