Sunday 30th March 2025

Mothering Sunday

 

       

Welcome to Sunday Focus. We pray you will be blessed as you listen to the songs and read the Word of God.

 

 

Hymn - Morning Has Broken

 

Song -  Each Day We Wake

Today, we are giving thanks to God for the gift of mothers and the mother-like nurture that many people show to others in their lives.

Isaiah wrote that God is a mother to us, comforting and carrying us in her arms: As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you…
Loving Lord, thank you for your tender care.

Isaiah also wrote that God would never forget us. He knows each of us, like a mother knows her own children: Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! 
Loving Lord, thank you for your tender care.
Jesus spoke of himself as a mother, longing to wrap his arms around us, like a mother hen gathers her chicks under her wings: O Jerusalem, Jerusalem… how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.
Loving Lord, thank you for your tender care.

Paul writes about his missionary ministry and likens his work to that of a nurse who looks after those in her care: but we were gentle among you, like a mother caring for her little children.
Loving Lord, thank you for your tender care.

 

Song - Give Thanks With a Grateful Heart

 

Dear Jesus,
We thank you for mothers and carers everywhere,
and for the special love they have for their children.
 
We thank you Jesus for your special care and comfort
and the perfect love you have for us all.
 
Help us all to show your love to those who care for us,
and to the people that we meet in our lives.  Amen

 

 

Psalm 139: 13 and 14

13 For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.

 

Song - Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

 

The Lord's Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever.

Amen.

 

Hymn -  Great is Thy Faithfulness

 

 May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all now and forever more. Amen.