Sunday Focus

26th April 2026

 

 

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

 

Hymn - The King of Love my Shepherd is

 

With the Psalmist we pray:

Let me hear of Your steadfast love in the morning,
for in You I put my trust.
Teach me the way I should go,
for to You I lift up my soul. (Psalm 143: 8)
 

Song - The Steadfast Love

 

Gracious God,
we love You because You first loved us.
With gladness we thank You for the gift of Christ our Lord,
the life-gate through whom all may enter.

Thank You for Jesus' life and teaching,
for the way He walked alongside people and talked along the way,
for days of laughter and of excitement on the mountain tops,
for times of grief and of suffering in the deepest of valleys,
for His death upon a cross
and for His glorious resurrection
by which we know there is nothing that can ever separate us
from the love of God.
Gladden our hearts with that knowledge that Christ is here!

Thank You for the Spirit who makes us one.
Thank You for all who reflect Christ's light and offer hope.
In gratitude we offer our gifts,
all that we are and have in Your service, and for Your glory.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen

 

 

Song - What Gift of Grace ( Yet not I but through Christ)

 

 

Reading:

1 Peter 2:19-25

 

19For it is to your credit if, being aware of God, you endure pain while suffering unjustly. 20If you endure when you are beaten for doing wrong, where is the credit in that? But if you endure when you do right and suffer for it, you have God’s approval. 21For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his steps.
22 ‘He committed no sin,
   and no deceit was found in his mouth.’
23When he was abused, he did not return abuse; when he suffered, he did not threaten; but he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly. 24He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, free from sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. 25For you were going astray like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.
 

Song - Baa Baa Song

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 - My hope is built on nothing less (Sinking Sand)

 

"Now may the God of peace,
who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus,
the great shepherd of the sheep,
by the blood of the eternal covenant,
make you complete in everything good
so that you may do His will,
working among us that which is pleasing in His sight,
through Jesus Christ,
to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen." (Hebrews 13:20-21)