HUNTER BAILLIE MEMORIAL
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ANNANDALE
24th January A.D. 2021 : 10 a.m.
Order of Service
Preacher : Rev. David Tsai
Organist: Ted Grantham
Interim Moderator : Rev. David Tsai, (davidtsai1@me.com
Session Clerk : Simon Fraser, (simon.fraser@cbp.com.au)
The office telephone number is 02 9552 2057.
Music before the Service :
Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741, Concerto in F minor, Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297 (iij) Largo
Welcome
Doxology
To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
The God whom we adore,
Be glory as it was and is,
And shall be evermore. Amen.
Tune, St Magnus, Jeremiah Clarke, 1674 - 1707
Call to Worship – Prayers of Approach
Hymn 1
1
The Lord is King ! lift up thy voice,
O earth, and all ye heavens, rejoice
From world to world the joy shall ring,
“The Lord omnipotent is king !’
2
The Lord is King ! who then shall dare
Resist his will, distrust his care ?
Holy and true are all his ways :
Let every creature sing his praise.
3
One Lord, one empire , all secures ;
He reigns and life and death are yours :
Through earth and heaven one song shall ring,
“The Lord omnipotent is King !” Amen.
Josiah Conder, 1789 - 1855
Tune, Church Triumphant, James William Elliott, 1853 – 1915
First reading – Genesis 1:24 -28
Read by John McPhail
Prayer of confession
Hymn 2
1
Immortal, invisible, God only wise,
In light inaccessible, hid from our eyes,
Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days,
Almighty, victorious, Thy great name we praise.
2
To all life Thou givest – to both great and small ;
In all life Thou livest the true life of all ;
We blossom and flourish as leaves on a tree,
And wither and perish – but nought changeth Thee.
3
Great Father of Glory, pure Father of light,
Thine angels adore Thee, all veiling their sight ;
All laud we would render : O help us to see
’Tis only the splendour of light hideth Thee. Amen.
Walter Chalmers Smith, 1824 - 1908
Tune, Joanna, Welsh Hymn Melody
Second Reading – John 1: 1 – 14
Read by Sue Maddrell
Prayer of Thanksgiving and Intercession
Hymn 3
1
Thou whose almighty word
Chaos and darkness hear
And took their flight,
Hear us, we humbly pray,
And, where the gospel day
Sheds not its glorious ray,
Let there be light.
2
Thou who didst come to bring,
On thy redeeming wing,
Healing and sight,
Health to the sick in mind,
Sight to the inly blind,
O now to all mankind
Let there be light.
3
Spirit of truth and love,
Life-giving, holy Dove,
Speed forth Thy flight ;
Move o’er the water’s face,
Bearing the lamp of grace,
And in earth’s darkest place
Let there be light.
4
Blessèd and holy Three,
Glorious Trinity,
Wisdom, Love, Might,
Boundless as ocean’s tide
Rolling in fullest pride,
Through the world far and wide
Let there be light. Amen
John Marriott 1780 – 1835
Tune, Moscow, Felice de Giardini, 1716 – 96
Notices
Retiring Offering
Hymn 4 (Psalm 8:1,3,4,6)
1
How excellent in all the earth,
Lord, our lord is thy name !
Who hast thy glory far advanced
above the starry frame.
2
When I look up into the heav’ns,
which thine own fingers fram’d ;
Unto the moon and to the stars
which were by thee ordain’d ;
3
Then say I, “What is man that he
remembered is by thee ?
Or what the son of man that thou
so kind to him should’st be ?
4
Of thy hand’s works thou mad’st him lord
all under ’s feet didst lay ;
All sheep and oxen, yea and beasts
that in the fields do stray. Amen.
Scottish Psalter, 1650
Tune, Winchester Old, Este’s Psalter, 1592
Sermon – WHAT GENESIS 1 TELLS US ABOUT GOD.
Introduction - We turn to chapter one. There are two words in this chapter, which are key words. The two words are GOD, and GOOD.
The word God occurs at least 32 times in as many verses. This book is about God. And indeed we should read Genesis 1 not so much as to study the creation , but to ask questions about the creator
And the word "Genesis" is a Greek word meaning beginning. And in the Hebrew Bible, the Hebrew title is exactly the same thing. It's simple the first three words of the book. "In the beginning." This is the book in which the beginning of almost everything that gives life meaning is to be found .Except God.
This is not the book where God begins ; everything else but not God. When the book opens, God already is .
Hymn 5 (Psalm 117)
1
From all that dwell below the skies
Let the Creator’s praise arise :
Hallelujah, Hallelujah !
Let the Redeemer’s name be sung
Through every land, in every tongue:
Hallelujah !Hallelujah ! Hallelujah !
Hallelujah ! Hallelujah!
2
Eternal are thy mercies, Lord :
Eternal truth attends Thy word :
Hallelujah, Hallelujah !
Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore
Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Hallelujah !Hallelujah ! Hallelujah !
Hallelujah ! Hallelujah! Amen.
Isaac Watts, 1811 – 75
Tune, Lasst uns erfeuen, Geistlichet Kirchengesäng, Cologne, 1623
Benediction – Threefold Amen
Organ Postlude : Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto for Two Violins in A minor, (i) Allegro
Notices
Services will be held at the Church at 10 a.m. each Sunday and will also be available on line by clicking “Livestream” at www.hunterbaillie.com
Preachers : 24th and 31st January, Rev. David Tsai, Interim Moderator,.7th February, Rev. Dr Phil Paul, 14th and 28th February, Rev David Tsai; 7th , 14th, 21st and 28th March, Rev. Tom Wall
Anniversary Service is 10 a.m. 21st February,
Preacher, Rev. Andrew Campbell, State Moderator
Offerings can be posted to PO box 42 Annandale 2038 or paid online to Annandale Leichhardt Presbyterian Church BSB: 032-011 Account Number: 120709. Please quote reference “Plate”. Please make cheques payable to: “Annandale Leichhardt Presbyterian Church” (not Hunter Baillie). If you wish to donate anonymously, put “Anonymous” or “Anon” as the name.
Meetings : 27th, Session 6 p.m. Church Office, Committee of Management 7.30 Zoom
Duty Elder for January, Simon Fraser, for February, Sue Maddrell,
Door Duty : 24th January, Alan & Noel; 31st January, Sue W & Allanah