With the continuing Coronavirus crisis the government has re-introduced lock down rules. Therefore the decision to continue with the live-stream services online was taken.

Below is the recording of the sermon for this week. Pastors Ann Luther and Ray Pountney unravel the best God has for us in the Sabbath.

The Sabbath Rest – various scriptures – Rev Ann Luther & Rev Ray Pountney – 22nd November 2020

• Matthew 11:28 – 30

  28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” NKJV

• John 10:9 – 10

  9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly [in fullness]. NKJV

• Exodus 20:8 – 11

  8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. NKJV

• Ezekiel 20:12 – 13

  12 Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them,that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them. 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. NKJV

• Exodus 20:12 – 16

  12 Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them. 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned.
   
  “Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them. 14 But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out. 15 Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands, 16 because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths;f or their heart went after their idols. ESV

• Mark 2:17

  And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. NKJV

• Colosians 2:16 – 17

  16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. NIV

• Hebrews 4:9

  There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; NIV

• Psalm 95:7b – 11 (see also Exodus 17:1 – 7 below)

  7b …Today, if only you would hear his voice,
  8 “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, [quarrelling]
  as you did that day at Massah [testing] in the wilderness,
  9 where your ancestors tested me;
  they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
  10 For forty years I was angry with that generation;
  I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,
  and they have not known my ways.’
  11 So I declared on oath in my anger,
  ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”

• Exodus 17:1 – 7

  1Water From the Rock
   
  1 The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2 So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink…”
  3 …and they grumbled against Moses…
  5 The Lord answered Moses…, 6 “…Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink…” 7 And he called the place Massah [testing] and Meribah [quarrelling] because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?” NIV

• Isaiah 58:13 – 14

  13 “If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath
  and from doing as you please on my holy day,
  if you call the Sabbath a delight
  and the Lord’s holy day honorable,
  and if you honor it by not going your own way
  and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,
  14 then you will find your joy in the Lord,
  and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land
  and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.”
  For the mouth of the Lord has spoken. NIV

• Reflective Hymn

  Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
   
  1 Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
  forgive our foolish ways;
  reclothe us in our rightful mind,
  in purer lives thy service find,
  in deeper reverence, praise.
   
  2 In simple trust like theirs who heard
  beside the Syrian sea
  the gracious calling of the Lord,
  let us, like them, without a word
  rise up and follow thee.
   
  3 O Sabbath rest by Galilee,
  O calm of hills above,
  where Jesus knelt to share with thee
  the silence of eternity,
  interpreted by love!
   
  4 Drop thy still dews of quietness,
  till all our strivings cease;
  take from our souls the strain and stress,
  and let our ordered lives confess
  the beauty of thy peace.
   
  5 Breathe through the heats of our desire
  thy coolness and thy balm;
  let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
  speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire,
  O still, small voice of calm!

Songs of Worship