Full Service - New Year’s Day
Taken from Times and Seasons
Description
Full Service New Year’s Day
Service contents:
Introduction: The lights of Christmas
Hymn: Lord, for the years your love has kept and guided or Come let us anew our journey pursue
or What clutter has the last year left
Link: This past year has shown a world divided…
Hymn: God weeps or God of grace and God of glory or When the weeping of the nations
Prayer: of penitence and absolution
Link: As we make these our prayers…
Reading: Matthew 2:1-18
Power Politics: “This talk of kings is dangerous,”…
Link: In the nineteenth century Alfred Tennyson wrote a poem for the turning of the year…
Hymn: Ring out wild bells (original) or Ring out wild bells (adapted) or Beauty for brokenness
Sermon idea:
Hymn: In an age of twisted values or As with gladness men of old or We hear of people
sanctioned
Prayer: At this time of New Year
Hymn: Make us your prophets, Lord or Sing to the great Jehovah’s praise or We follow Christ who
lived a life
Blessing: Face the future
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
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