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Greenbank Parish Church, Edinburgh
Sunday 31st August 2025
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
In-Person and Livestreamed Worship, 10.30am
Worship Leader: Rev W Peter Graham
Organist: Calum Landon
Order of Service
Theme: Priorities for a Living Church
(Hymns are from CH4 and readings are from NRSV, except where stated otherwise)
Organ:
Prelude, Fugue and Variation by Cesar Franck
Welcome and Intimations
Call to Worship
Hymn 103: Fill your hearts with joy and gladness [Tune: Rhuddlan]
Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer
Young Church
Hymn 342: Says Jesus, 'Come and gather round' [Tune: Une Jeune Pucelle]
Reading: Proverbs 25: 6–7 (OT: p619) Hebrews 13: 1-8, 15-16 [NT p224] [Reader: Dominic Ferguson-Allen]
Hymn 577: Christ be beside me [Tune: Bunessan] Band
Reading: Luke 14: 1, 7–14 (NT: p74) [Reader: Martin Struthers]
Sermon
God Welcomes All 202: God, may our church reflect your grace [Tune: Ellacombe CH4: 247]
Prayers of thanksgiving and for others led by Pam Jack
Hymn 500: Lord of creation, to you be all praise! [Tune: Slane]
Benediction, with sung Amen at Hymn 822
Organ:
O Radix Jesse by Cecilia McDowall