Worship at Home - Pentecost - 31 May 2020

WORSHIP AT HOME – 31 May 2020 - PENTECOST

Preparing for Worship

(Note since Pentecost is one of the Church’s Feasts, I have included 5 hymns, so you can choose to sing all 5 or select!)

“When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.” (Acts 2:1)

Fifty days after the feast of Pesach (Passover), the Jews celebrate the feast of Shavuot (Feast of Weeks or Pentecost). Like Pesach, it is a pilgrimage festival and the Jews would gather in Jerusalem to celebrate the feast. This Feast remembered the Torah (the Law – known as the Pentateuch or the 5 Books of Moses.)

Jesus’ disciples having been instructed to remain in the city, would have already been in Jerusalem. As faithful Jews, they would have been preparing to observe Shavuot with their fellow Jewish sisters and brothers.

Worship at Home - 24 May 2020 - Aldersgate Sunday.

Worship at Home - 24 May 2020

Aldersgate Sunday - also known as Wesley Day

"In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death."

(John Wesley's Journal - from https://ccel.org/ccel/wesley/journal/journal.vi.ii.xvi.html)

Worship at Home - Sunday 17th May - Easter 6 - Sunday before Ascension

Introduction:

The 6th Sunday of Easter is the Sunday before Ascension Day.  In this act of worship we will be considering Jesus' post-Resurrection appearances and the things that, for us, are "convincing proofs" (Acts 1:3) that Christ is Alive and still with us as in our daily lives. 

Opening Words of Scripture:

Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.  (Matthew 28:20)

Worship at Home - Sunday 10 May 2020 - 75th Anniversary of VE Day Weekend.

WORSHIP AT HOME FOR 10 MAY 2020

The 75th Anniversary of VE Day

This weekend would have been a weekend of public events to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the end of the European part of World War 2.  Alas - we are all locked down and sheltering from a very different threat to that which was faced during the first half of the 1940s.  However, for this week's worship at home I have adapted and used material produced by the Church of England for VE Day 75th Anniversary. (Sections that have been adapted are marked with *)  I pray that it will be a blessing.