Pressing On

11 o’clock English Service NEP 241 ( psalm 23 ) ' The Lord’s my Shepherd ' Prayer followed by Young People’s talk Bible Reading Lamentations 3: 19-29 ( ESV) New Every Morning I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord ’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.” The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young. Let him sit alone in silence, for the Lord has laid it on him. Let him bury his face in the dust — there may yet be hope. NEP 141 ‘ Lord for the years ’ Sermon - New Every Morning At the beginning of the New Year before we consider any resolutions or anything else we should consider the God who was with us last year who is new every morning . A love that is unfailing ( vs 22a) A Love that is unending ( Vs 22b) A faithfulness that is unlimited ( vs 23b) An inheritance that is unfading ( vs 24a) A hope that is unstinting ( vs 24b) NEP 70 ‘Great is thy faithfulness ’ No Gaelic service today The next Gaelic service will be on Sunday 12th January No Sunday school today Sunday School resumes on Sunday 12th January 6 pm Evening English Service Ps 90: 1-7 ‘ Lord thou hast been our dwelling place ‘ ’ Ps 16 : 5-11 ‘ God is of mine inheritance ’ Bible reading Philippians 3: 12-21 ( ESV) Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained. Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself Ps 73:23-28 ‘ Nevertheless continually ’ Sermon “Pressing on ‘ Tonight we look at the ‘resolution’ of the apostle Paul to press on But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. ( Philippians 3: 13-14) Para 63 ‘ Behold the amazing gift of love ’