It is God who holds the nations in the hollow of his hand (StF 705)

It is God who holds the nations in the hollow of his hand (StF 705)

It is God who holds the nations in the hollow of his hand (StF 705)

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Sunday 7 October, 201827^th Sunday in Ordinary Time What hymns have you chosen for today, and why? Do you have a comment about the suggestions here? Just click on “see details/comment” below and respond using the box at the bottom of the new page Readings are laid out as for the continuous form of the lectionary. Alternative related readings (OT and psalm only) are below. Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading Job 1: 1, 2: 1-10 A safe stronghold our God is still (StF 623) Blessed be your name in the land that is plentiful (StF 41) God of my faith, I offer you my doubt (StF 629) O for a heart to praise my God (StF 507) O God, beyond all thought (StF 138) Psalm 26 Hymns echoing the psalmist's theme Now I have found the ground wherein sure my soul's anchor may remain (StF 561) You shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace (StF 487) Hebrews 1: 1-4; 2:5-12 All hail the power of Jesu's name (StF 342) At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow (StF 317) Christ triumphant, ever reigning (StF 319) Come, let us join our cheerful songs (StF 743) Come, Lord, be our guest (StF 580) Eternal God, your love’s tremendous glory (StF 3) Heaven shall not wait (StF 701) Jesus is the name we honour (StF 354) Meekness and majesty, manhood and deity (StF 362) My eyes be open to your presence (StF 560) O thou who camest from above (StF 564) Sing to him in whom creation (StF 14) Mark 10: 2-16 A new commandment I give unto you (StF 242) As we gather, Father, seal us (StF 570) As your family, Lord, see us here (StF 571) God is Love: let heaven adore him (StF 103) God, how can we forgive? (StF 613) God weeps at love withheld (StF 700) Great God, your love has called us here (StF 499) Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy (StF 526) O perfect love, all human thought transcending (StF 605) Pray for a world where every child finds welcome in a sheltered space (StF 527) Says Jesus, ‘Come and gather round. I want to each my friends' (StF 510) The day the universe was started (StF 540) When love is found and hope comes home (StF 607) Alternative related readings The Revd Phillip Poyner writes: Mark 10: 2-16 will be regarded by some as pastorally insensitive and Genesis 2: 18-24 seems to compound the problem! One approach is to acknowledge our failings in personal relationships. Another is to reflect on the theme of ‘completeness’. Humanity can know a completeness in stewarding creation and in the marital bond but absolute completeness and perfection is found in Christ (Hebrews 1: 1-4). See hymns marked # Genesis 2: 18-24 All people that on earth do dwell (StF 1) Now thank we all our God (StF 81) Sacred the body God has created (StF 618) Thou God of truth and love (StF 620) Psalm 8 Hymns echoing the psalmist's theme Morning has broken like the first morning (StF 136) O Lord, our Lord, throughout the earth (StF 112)

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Sunday 14 October, 201828^th Sunday in Ordinary Time What hymns have you chosen for today, and why? Do you have a comment about the suggestions here? Just click on “see details/comment” below and respond using the box at the bottom of the new page Readings are laid out as for the continuous form of the lectionary. Alternative related readings (OT and psalm only) are below. Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading Job 23: 1-9, 16-17 I’ve had questions without answers (StF 632) When circumstances make my life too hard to understand (StF 641) When, O God, our faith is tested (StF 643) When our confidence is shaken in beliefs we thought secure (StF 644) Psalm 22: 1-15 Hymns echoing the psalmist’s theme How long, O Lord, will you forget an answer to my prayer? (StF 630) My troubled soul, why so weighed down? (StF 635) Now thank we all our God (StF 81) We do not hope to ease our minds by simple answers (StF 717) When I’m feeling down and sad (StF 642) Hebrews 4: 12-16 Alleluia, alleluia! The word of the Lord lasts for ever (StF 757) Almighty God, to whom all hearts are open (StF 749) Come, let us with our Lord arise (StF 148) Forty days and forty nights (StF 236) Heaven shall not wait (StF 701) How sweet the name of Jesus sounds (StF 322) Jesu, the joy of loving hearts (StF 365) Just as I am, without one plea (StF 556) Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us (StF 238) Listening God, you hear us when we cannot speak (StF 524) Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour (StF 593) O God, you search me and you know me (StF 728) Only by grace can we enter (StF 565) There is no moment of my life (StF 482) Mark 10: 17-31 A rich young man came seeking (StF 243) All for Jesus—all for Jesus (StF 341) Because you have said (StF 574) Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart (StF 545) Jesus calls us! O'er the tumult (StF 250) Take my life, and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee (StF 566) Will you come and follow me if I but call your name? (StF 673) Alternative related readings The Revd Phillip Poyner writes: Two possible connections between the Gospel, Epistle, Amos 5 and Psalm 90 are that i) God knows our minds and actions and, therefore, ii) seeking God’s will and grace to ‘live’ (and be judged righteous) are essential. Amos 5: 6-7, 10-15 Seek ye first the kingdom of God (StF 254) Send down the fire of your justice (StF 413) Show me how to stand for justice (StF 713) The right hand of God (StF 715) We lay our broken world in sorrow at your feet (StF 718) Psalm 90: 12-17 Hymns echoing the psalmist's theme New every morning is the love (StF 137) (a response to vv.14&17) There is no moment of my life (StF 482) Today I awake and God is before me (StF 139) (a response to vv.14&17) We do not presume to come to this table (StF 601) You showed us mercy when we were in darkness (StF 488)

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Sunday 21 October, 201829^th Sunday in Ordinary Time What hymns have you chosen for today, and why? Do you have a comment about the suggestions here? Just click on “see details/comment” below and respond using the box at the bottom of the new page Readings are laid out as for the continuous form of the lectionary. Alternative related readings (OT and psalm only) are below. Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading Job 38: 1-7 (34-41) Immortal, invisible, God only wise (StF 55) O worship the King, all-glorious above (StF 113) Praise ye the Lord! ‘Tis good to raise our hearts and voices in his praise (StF 115) Sing of a God in majestic divinity (StF 13) Psalm 104: 1-9, 24, 35c Hymns echoing the psalmist’s theme God is love: let heaven adore him (StF 103) I sing the almighty power of God (StF 107) Let all the world in every corner sing (StF 57) O Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder (StF 82) O worship the King, all-glorious above (StF 113) To God be the glory, great things he has done (StF 94) Hebrews 5: 1-10 Christ triumphant, every reigning (StF 319) Crown him with many crowns (StF 347) God of all power, and truth, and grace (StF 498) Hail, thou once despised Jesus (StF 301) Jesus calls us here to meet him (StF 28) Meekness and majesty, manhood and deity (StF 362) Mark 10: 35-45 Behold the servant of the Lord! (StF 546) Come down, O Love divine (StF 372) From heaven you came, helpless babe (StF 272) Give me the wings of faith to rise within the veil (StF 747) Lord of creation, to you be all praise! (StF 449) Lord, we have come at your invitation (StF 595) My God, I am thine (StF 80) One human family God has made (StF 687) Speak, O Lord, as we come to you (StF 161) The Church of Christ, in every age (StF 415) Alternative related readings Isaiah 53: 4-12 Come, let us sing of a wonderful love (StF 443) Crown him with many crowns (StF 347) Jesus Christ, I think upon your sacrifice (StF 274) Man of Sorrows! What a name (StF 361) Praise to the holiest in the height (StF 334) There's a light upon the mountains (StF 188) Victim divine, thy grace we claim (StF 600) Who would ever have believed it? (StF 290) Psalm 91: 9-16 Hymns echoing the psalmist's theme Out of the depths I cry to thee (StF 433) O God of Bethel, by whose hand thy people still are fed (StF 475) Praise, my soul, the king of heaven (StF 83) With all my heart I thank you, Lord (StF 602) Ye servants of God, your master proclaim (StF 340)

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Sunday 28 October, 201830^th Sunday in Ordinary Time What hymns have you chosen for today, and why? Do you have a comment about the suggestions here? Just click on “see details/comment” below and respond using the box at the bottom of the new page Readings are laid out as for the continuous form of the lectionary. Alternative related readings (OT and psalm only) are below. Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading Job 42: 1-6, 10-17 Dear Lord and Father of mankind forgive our foolish ways (StF 495) Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death (StF 626) God has spoken – by his prophets (StF 157) God moves in a mysterious way (StF 104) Here hangs a man discarded (StF 273) My God! I know, I feel thee mine (StF 390) Psalm 34: 1-8 (19-22) Hymns echoing the psalmist’s theme Christ, whose glory fills the skies (StF 134) King of Glory, King of Peace (StF 56) Love divine, all loves excelling (StF 503) Out of the depths I cry to thee (StF 433) Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord! (StF 186) This, this is the God we adore (StF 67) Through all the changing scenes of life (StF 638) Hebrews 7: 23-28 All for Jesus – all for Jesus (StF 341) Alleluia! Sing to Jesus, his the sceptre, his the throne (StF 568) I know that my Redeemer lives (StF 303) Christ triumphant, ever reigning (StF 319) Jesus is King and I will extol him (StF 327) Listening God, you hear us when we cannot speak (StF 524) Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour (StF 593) Mark 10: 46-52 Author of faith, eternal Word (StF 457) Amazing grace – how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me (StF 440) Be still and know that I am God (StF 18) Come, Lord, to our souls come down (StF 493) Have faith in God, my heart (StF 466) I'll praise my Maker while I've breath (StF 79) O for a thousand tongues to sing (StF 364) Open the eyes of my heart, Lord (StF 451) Alternative related readings Jeremiah 31: 7-9 Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (StF 568) Hills of the north, rejoice (StF 172) Praise, my soul, the King of heaven (StF 83) The King of love my shepherd is (StF 479) With gladness we worship (StF 17) Psalm 126 Hymns echoing the psalmist’s theme Earth's creator, everyday God (StF 45) Give me joy in my heart (StF 76) Give to me, Lord, a thankful heart (StF 520) Glorious things of thee are spoken (StF 748) Great is our redeeming Lord (StF 683) Now the green blade rises (StF 306) You shall go out with joy (StF 487)