Sunday Focus

17th May 2026

 

Welcome to this weeks Sunday Focus, we pray you will be blessed.

  

Hymn -  The Lord is King

 

Song -  Blessing and Honour (Ancient of Days)

 

Ascended Lord Jesus we praise you.
Once You lived a human life subject to the limitations of time:
now You are the same yesterday, today and forever.
Once You were limited to one particular place:
now You are present wherever people turn to You.
Once only those who met You face to face knew You:
now Your divine love extends through all the world.
Jesus, ascended Lord of time and space,
love as wide as life, we praise and adore You, Amen.

 

Song -  All Heaven Declares

 

 

Acts 1:6-14

The Ascension of Jesus

6 So when they had come together, they asked him, ‘Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?’ 7He replied, ‘It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. 8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.’ 9When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. 10While he was going and they were gazing up towards heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them. 11They said, ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up towards heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.’

Matthias Chosen to Replace Judas

12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day’s journey away. 13When they had entered the city, they went to the room upstairs where they were staying, Peter, and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of* James. 14All these were constantly devoting themselves to prayer, together with certain women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, as well as his brothers.

 

Song - How Can I keep From Singing

The Lord's Prayer
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours
now and for ever.
Amen. 

 

 

Song -  You're the Word of God ( Across The Lands)

 

O God, the King of Glory,
who has exalted Your only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph into Your Kingdom;
leave us not without comfort;
send to us Your Holy Spirit to be our Comforter
and to exalt us into the same place where our Saviour Christ has gone before us,
who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit,
one God, world without end. Amen.