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Sunday 16th February 2020, – 11h00
Welcome to the Scots Kirk Paris
If you are visiting, know that you are welcome and please take the greetings of the Scots Kirk Paris back home. If you are settling in Paris, may you find a home here. Please sign the “visitor’s book” on the entrance table and join us for refreshments after the service. Mobile phone switched off…?
Call to worship: Malachi 3:1-4 (NIVUK)
‘I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then
suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the mess-
enger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,’ says the Lord
Almighty.
But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he
appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap. He will
sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine
them like gold and silver. Then the Lord will have men who will bring
offerings in righteousness, and the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will
be acceptable to the Lord, as in days gone by, as in former years.
1 st Singing Psalm 117 C (tune: Old 100 th )
From all that dwell below the skies,
O let Jehovah’s praise arise!
And let his glorious name be sung
in every land, by every tongue!
Great are the mercies of the Lord,
and truth eternal is his word;
ye nations, sound from shore to shore
Jehovah’s praise forevermore!
Prayer for confession of sins and repentance, followed by the Lord’s Prayer
2nd Singing Psalm 62 B:8-12 (tune: Eventide)
My rock of strength, my refuge is in God.
O people, in him always put your trust;
before him, people, pour out all your heart,
God is our refuge; he’ll watch over us;
For common men are nothing but a breath,
and great men, they are nothing but a lie.
When they are set on balances they rise;
together they weigh no more than a sigh.
O do not in extortion put your trust,
in robbery do not put your hope in vain,
and, if your riches happen to increase,
don’t set your heart on such a means of gain.
God once has spoken, twice I have heard this
that power and grace from God the Lord do come,
and that the Lord a man does recompense
according to the work that he has done.
Readings from the Bible
1 st Reading Jonas 3:3-10 (KJV)
So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the
Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and
said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put
on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne,
and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in
ashes.
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by
the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast,
herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto
God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the
violence that is in their hands.
Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce
anger, that we perish not?
And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God
repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and
he did it not.
2nd Reading Luke 11:29-33 (NIVUK)
As the crowds increased, Jesus said, ‘This is a wicked generation. It asks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah. For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of Man be to this generation. The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon’s wisdom; and now something greater than Solomon is here. The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and now something greater than Jonah is here. ‘No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, so that those who come in may see
the light.’ Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psalm 119:105)
Sermon
Offering
Prayer of Thanksgiving and Intercession
3 rd Singing Psalm 9:7-20 (tune: St Denio/Joanna/Immortal Invisible)
The Lord will eternally reign from his throne;
he has it established for justice alone.
He righteously judges the world in his sight;
all peoples will know that his judgement is right.
The Lord is a stronghold, a refuge, a tower,
for all the oppressed in their dark, troubled hour.
Those knowing your name, Lord, trust you for your grace;
you have not forsaken those seeking your face.
Sing praise to the Lord, who in Zion does dwell;
among all the peoples his mighty deeds tell.
The cry of the poor never fades from his ears;
their blood he avenges; he always will hear.
Lord, see what I suffer from malice and hate.
Have mercy! O lift me away from death’s gate,
that in Zion’s daughter’s gates I may then voice
your praises, and in your salvation rejoice.
The nations are sunk in the pit they prepared;
their foot in the net which they hid is ensnared.
The Lord by his judgment has made himself known,
and by their own works are the wicked o’erthrown.
The wicked to death’s dark abode will be brought,
with all of the lands that are heedless of God,
forgotten no longer the cause of the weak,
nor perished forever the hope of the meek.
Arise, Lord, let frail man not think himself strong;
let nations be judged in your presence for wrong.
Strike terror within them,O Lord, always
then let nations know truly that they are mere men.
Blessing
Final singing Threefold Amen
The words of the Psalms we sung were taken from the RPC of Ireland’s Psalter
“The Psalms for Singing - A 21st Century Edition Psalter”
À DIEU SEUL LA GLOIRE
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Gifts for the homeless men: please see the list of items on the wall above the basket and bring what you can to help the homeless men in Paris through the work of the Missionnaires de la Charité
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Bible reading suggestion for February:
Read one chapter per day of the Gospel of Mark. (17 chapters) |
On Sale for Church Funds: "The Tartan Pimpernel" by the Rev Donald Caskie, Scots Kirk tea towels & notelets and the Scots Kirk Recipe
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Contact
17 rue Bayard, 75008 Paris
Minister: Rev Jan Steyn
Tel. 01 48 78 47 94
Session clerk: Dorothy Mure
Pianist: Mr Paul Snelgrove
e-mail: scotskirkparis@orange.fr
Website: www.scotskirkparis.com
Facebook page: ScotsKirkParis
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(BNP Paribas). IBAN number: FR76 3000 4015 3300 0100 9031 587
17 rue Bayard, 75008 Paris
Minister: Rev Jan Steyn
Tel. 01 48 78 47 94
Session clerk: Dorothy Mure
Pianist: Mr Paul Snelgrove
e-mail: scotskirkparis@orange.fr
Website: www.scotskirkparis.com
Facebook page: ScotsKirkParis
Follow us on Twitter
@ScotsKirkFrance https://twitter.com/ScotsKirkFrance
Amis: https://amisskp.wixsite.com/amisskp
Donate/Contribute: Name of the account: Assoc Church of Scotland
(BNP Paribas). IBAN number: FR76 3000 4015 3300 0100 9031 587