Laich of Moray Parish Church (formerly Lossiemouth Church of Scotland)

Today’s service – 16 October 2022 – is led by Rev. Christine McWhirter and the sermon text is from Luke’s Gospel (Luke 10:38-42) – The Story of Martha and Mary (and Jesus).

Our work in the church, or with our family, or on the job may be important, but it is not the most important thing in God’s kingdom. Have we lost sight of what is important and, if so, what should we be doing about it?

Order of Service

Welcome and intimations
Call to worship
Hymn – MP 41 At the name of Jesus
Prayers of Adoration and Confession
Hymn – CH4 550 As the deer pants
All-age talk
Children’s Songs
Readings – Psalm 24 and Luke 10:38-42
Hymn – MP 784 Ye servants of God
Message
Prayers for others (including Lord’s prayer)
Hymn – MP 313 I will sing, I will sing
Benediction and threefold Amen

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Sunday 09 October 2022 is the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Our main Lectionary reading comes from the New Testament of the Bible – from Paul’s first letter to Timothy (1 Timothy 6:6-19).

As Paul explains to Timothy – and Rev. Geoff McKee expands upon in his sermon – “godliness with contentment is great gain.  For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.” (1 Timothy 6:6-8; New International Version of the Bible).

Main Scripture for today

1 Timothy 6:6-19 (from The Message Translation of the Bible)
6-8 A devout life does bring wealth, but it’s the rich simplicity of being yourself before God. Since we entered the world penniless and will leave it penniless, if we have bread on the table and shoes on our feet, that’s enough.

9-10 But if it’s only money these leaders are after, they’ll self-destruct in no time. Lust for money brings trouble and nothing but trouble. Going down that path, some lose their footing in the faith completely and live to regret it bitterly ever after.

Running Hard
11-12 But you, Timothy, man of God: Run for your life from all this. Pursue a righteous life—a life of wonder, faith, love, steadiness, courtesy. Run hard and fast in the faith. Seize the eternal life, the life you were called to, the life you so fervently embraced in the presence of so many witnesses.

13-16 I’m charging you before the life-giving God and before Christ, who took his stand before Pontius Pilate and didn’t give an inch: Keep this command to the letter, and don’t slack off. Our Master, Jesus Christ, is on his way. He’ll show up right on time, his arrival guaranteed by the Blessed and Undisputed Ruler, High King, High God. He’s the only one death can’t touch, his light so bright no one can get close. He’s never been seen by human eyes—human eyes can’t take him in! Honour to him, and eternal rule! Oh, yes.

17-19 Tell those rich in this world’s wealth to quit being so full of themselves and so obsessed with money, which is here today and gone tomorrow. Tell them to go after God, who piles on all the riches we could ever manage—to do good, to be rich in helping others, to be extravagantly generous. If they do that, they’ll build a treasury that will last, gaining life that is truly life.

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02 October 2022 is Harvest Thanksgiving Sunday and the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost.

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25 September 2022 is the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost.

The main reading this week is from Paul’s Letter to Timothy in the New Testament (1 Timothy 2:1-7).

Happy Birthday to You, Skye! 🙂

Main reading from Scripture for today

1 Timothy 2:1-7 (from The Message translation of the Bible)
Simple Faith and Plain Truth
2 1-3 The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know. Pray especially for rulers and their governments to rule well so we can be quietly about our business of living simply, in humble contemplation. This is the way our Saviour God wants us to live.

4-7 He wants not only us but everyone saved, you know, everyone to get to know the truth we’ve learned: that there’s one God and only one, and one Priest-Mediator between God and us—Jesus, who offered himself in exchange for everyone held captive by sin, to set them all free. Eventually the news is going to get out. This and this only has been my appointed work: getting this news to those who have never heard of God, and explaining how it works by simple faith and plain truth.

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