Welcome

Welcome to our Sunday service!

This Sunday City Church are meeting virtually! We think it's vital as God's people to keep meeting together in whatever way we can. We need to be teaching, encouraging, comforting and spurring each other on to live for Jesus in testing and unpredictable times. At 10:40AM, do join with us as we learn, pray and sing together. There is a children's talk, a sermon, a prayer time, and several songs to help us respond to what we're hearing. If you're part of one of our small groups working through the service together, you'll be meeting with your group at 10:30AM to chat and catch up before joining the service at 10:40. You'll also be meeting virtually after the service to discuss and pray together. Your group leader will guide you through the timings and discussion questions. We're praying that God will use this virtual time together to encourage and build us up in very concrete ways!

children's talk

 

If you're a regular at City Church, see this week’s activity pack in your email from Rachel.  

• Where did Jesus go?
• How did Jesus’ friends feel about this?
• Is it good that Jesus is in heaven?
• Who will help us to understand the Bible?
• Jesus is the King- what does this mean for us?

 

 

You might have seen bad things happening
On the TV news;
You might be worrying 'bout the world
And wonder what will happen to you.
Well put your trust in God alone
Cos he's still sittin' on his mighty throne!

The Lord is King:
He's gonna look after everything,
Everything!
The Lord is King:
He's gonna look after everything;
Every single thing in this world--
Cos this is his world!

You might get sad and wonder
Why there's so much pain,
Why we let the same mistakes
Happen over and over again.
Our sinful ways will always fail,
But God and his ways will prevail (because...)

The Lord is King:
He's gonna look after everything,
Everything!
The Lord is King:
He's gonna look after everything,
Every single thing in this world,
Cos this is his world!

You kings be wise, you rulers
Hear the Lord's decree;
He sees, he knows, he'll judge
In fearsome majesty.
But blessed are all who find their place
In the shelter of his grace (because...)

The Lord is King:
He's gonna look after everything,
Everything!
The Lord is King:
He's gonna look after everything,
Every single thing in this world,
Cos this is his world!
He rules the world,
Yeah this is his world!

 

 

What love could remember no wrongs we have done?
Omniscient, all knowing, He counts not their sum:
Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore,
Our sins, they are many, His mercy is more!

What patience would wait as we constantly roam?
What Father, so tender, is calling us home?
He welcomes the weakest, the vilest, the poor:
Our sins, they are many, His mercy is more!

What riches of kindness he lavished on us?
His blood was the payment, His life was the cost:
We stood 'neath a debt we could never afford;
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more!

CHORUS

Praise the Lord!
His mercy is more!
Stronger than darkness, new every morn;
Our sins, they are many, His mercy is more!

prayers for the church and the world

sermon

Psalm 90

A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.

¹ Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
² Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

³ You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!”
⁴ For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
⁵ You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning:
⁶ in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.
⁷ For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed.

⁸ You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
⁹ For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
¹⁰ The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.
¹¹ Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you?
¹² So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

¹³ Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants!
¹⁴ Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
¹⁵ Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil.
¹⁶ Let your work be shown to your servants,  and your glorious power to their children.

¹⁷ Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!

response song

questions for discussion

Do take some time in your small groups to discuss the questions.

After that, please take some time to share prayer requests