SUNDAY SERMON 78: BROUGHT TO YOU BY Elaine Gowdy

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

As from Monday the 16th of August, The Rev Sam Campbell has been on holiday for two weeks. If over this period there is a pastoral emergency please contact; For Mossley Colin McDowell or Christine Mccausland. For Greencastle Carol Lambe or Evelyn Stainer.

Even though current restrictions from the NI Executive have changed, The Methodist Church in Ireland (along with the other main denominations throughout the Provence) have decided, for the time being, that we WILL CONTINUE to wear masks throughout the service. Please respect this to insure you and your fellow worshippers (particularly the vulnerable) safety.

The Methodist Church in Ireland also has asked EVERYONE to ensure that they take up the vaccination.

Elaine Gowdy Mossley Methodist Youth Pastor: Psalm 139 – Gods Love Pursues Us

Psalm 139

139 ^1-6God, investigate my life;
    get all the facts firsthand.
I’m an open book to you;
    even from a distance, you know what I’m thinking.
You know when I leave and when I get back;
    I’m never out of your sight.
You know everything I’m going to say
    before I start the first sentence.
I look behind me and you’re there,
    then up ahead and you’re there, too—
    your reassuring presence, coming and going.
This is too much, too wonderful—
    I can’t take it all in!

^7-12Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit?
    to be out of your sight?
If I climb to the sky, you’re there!
    If I go underground, you’re there!
If I flew on morning’s wings
    to the far western horizon,
You’d find me in a minute—
    you’re already there waiting!
Then I said to myself, “Oh, he even sees me in the dark!
    At night I’m immersed in the light!”
It’s a fact: darkness isn’t dark to you;
    night and day, darkness and light, they’re all the same to you.

^13-16Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
    you formed me in my mother’s womb.
I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!
    Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
    I worship in adoration—what a creation!
You know me inside and out,
    you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
    how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
    all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared
    before I’d even lived one day.

Please find BY CLICKING HERE the song Elaine mentions. This Medley by John Mark McMillan will take it’s place in the worship time within the live Sunday Service at Mossley Methodist. All rights reserved – Heart Won’t Stop / Stand By Me (YOUTUBE)

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