We have set Sunday 24 October 2021 aside as a special ‘Creation Sunday’ service in the lead up to the COP26 Conference in Glasgow.

We focus our attention on God’s Creation and our role as its guardians.

Below, you will find the main Bible text for today – Psalm 24 – together with the Order of Service, the Video of the Service, led by Rev. Geoff McKee. and a musical selection by Katherine Robertson, our Musical Director.

Main scripture reading this week.

Psalm 24 (from The Message translation of the Bible)
24 1-2 God claims Earth and everything in it,
God claims World and all who live on it.
He built it on Ocean foundations,
laid it out on River girders.

3-4 Who can climb Mount God?
Who can scale the holy north-face?
Only the clean-handed,
only the pure-hearted;
Men who won’t cheat,
women who won’t seduce.

5-6 God is at their side;
with God’s help they make it.
This, Jacob, is what happens
to God-seekers, God-questers.

7 Wake up, you sleepyhead city!
Wake up, you sleepyhead people!
King-Glory is ready to enter.

8 Who is this King-Glory?
God, armed
and battle-ready.

9 Wake up, you sleepyhead city!
Wake up, you sleepyhead people!
King-Glory is ready to enter.

10 Who is this King-Glory?
God-of-the-Angel-Armies:
he is King-Glory.

Order of Service

Sunday
Welcome and Intimations
Call to Worship
Praise: Sing of the God who spoke
Prayers of Adoration and Confession
Children’s Address
Praise: God who made the earth
and We can help to save our planet
Readings: Genesis 1:1-31a & Psalm 24
Praise: Sing praise to God on mountain tops
Readings: Romans 8:18-25 & John 1:1-14
Glasgow COP26 Film – Honduras
Sermon
Praise: God the maker of the heavens
Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession
Praise: God of boundless hope
Benediction & Threefold Amen

Video Service

Musical Selection

‘God the maker of the heavens’ by Sam Hargreaves. From the album ‘Doxecology‘ by Resound Worship. Tracks, charts, scores and video all available at the link.