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Full Service New Year’s Day

Service contents:

Introduction: The lights of Christmas

Hymn: Lord, for the years your love has kept and guided or Come let us anew our journey pursue
or What clutter has the last year left

Link: This past year has shown a world divided…

Hymn: God weeps or God of grace and God of glory or When the weeping of the nations

Prayer: of penitence and absolution

Link: As we make these our prayers…

Reading: Matthew 2:1-18

Power Politics: “This talk of kings is dangerous,”…

Link: In the nineteenth century Alfred Tennyson wrote a poem for the turning of the year…

Hymn: Ring out wild bells (original) or Ring out wild bells (adapted) or Beauty for brokenness

Sermon idea:

Hymn: In an age of twisted values or As with gladness men of old or We hear of people
sanctioned

Prayer: At this time of New Year

Hymn: Make us your prophets, Lord or Sing to the great Jehovah’s praise or We follow Christ who
lived a life

Blessing: Face the future

Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
Words © Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk.
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