Can a Nation Be Changed? Part 2

Wednesday 7.30pm Prayer Meeting We meet for prayer in the church hall. will be followed at 9 pm by a meeting of the Deacons’ Court This Services next Sunday 3rd May 2015 11 O’clock English service Rev Iain A Macleod Glasgow On creche Hazel and Eileen No Sunday school due to school holiday 6 PM English service Rev Iain A Macleod Glasgow Please note that due to illness the dates of the Safeguarding workshop have had to be changed. These have now been rescheduled for Friday 22nd May for Office bearers and Saturday 23rd May for all volunteers and coordinators For Your Diaries • • • • • • • 5th May Slavic Gospel Association - John Birnie - Joint meeting with Free Church ( in our church hall). 6th May Kirk Session Meeting after the prayer meeting. 18th May 8pm Holiday Club planning meeting at the Church hall. 22nd May Safeguarding Training for Office Bearers 23rd May Safeguarding Training for Volunteers and Coordinators 24th May 11 am Communion Service 30th May Soup & Pudding Fundraising lunch for this years Holiday Club at Comunn Eachdraidh . If anyone is free to help out with this in any way by either preparing soups or puddings, or are prepared to help out by serving or in the kitchen then please speak to Baba at the Comunn Eachdraidh at 810 377 Cross Ness Church of Scotland is a registered Scottish Charity No. SC000991 Tuesday No Early Morning prayer meeting this week. 10.15am. Women’s Bible Study The Women’s Bible study at Rachel’s house 16 Eorodale. All women very welcome to come along. • 8pm Eric & Joy Browning Society for distribution of Hebrew Scriptures . Tonight we host a joint meeting with Free Church ( in our church hall). and welcome back once again Eric and Joy Browning. Everyone is warmly welcome to come along to this meeting. , The Society for Distributing Hebrew Scriptures exists to provide Jewish people worldwide with a free copy of the Holy Scriptures in bilingual format, i.e. in Hebrew and in the reader’s daily tongue. More info at http://www.sdhs.co.uk Minister’s Contact details Rev Ian Murdo Macdonald Tel. 810375 e-mail crosschurch@mac.com The Week Ahead 26th April 2015 Welcome to Church this Sunday. A very warm welcome to our services of worship today. We hope that you will feel welcome here as we seek to worship God together today. “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” 14 And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God (Matthew 16:13-16 ESV) Induction loops are fitted in both the Church and hall for the hard of hearing. Please set your hearing aid to position ‘T’ . Recordings of all our services are available on our website www.crossnesschurch.com as free Podcasts. CD recordings are also made of the services. On Creche Christine B and Chrismina Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/eaglaisnis find us via Google by entering @eaglaisnis www.crossnesschurch.com for more information and audio content. or 11 o’clock English Psalm 100 ‘ All People that on Earth do Dwell ' Prayer Young Peoples talk Bible Reading 1 Kings 18: 20 - 24 / 36- 39 (NIV) Elijah on Mount Carmel 20 So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. 21 Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people said nothing. 22 Then Elijah said to them, “I am the only one of the Lord ’s prophets left, but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets. 23 Get two bulls for us. Let Baal’s prophets choose one for themselves, and let them cut it into pieces and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. I will prepare the other bull and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. 24 Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord. The god who answers by fire —he is God……. 36 At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed:“ Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. 37 Answer me, Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, Lord, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.” 38 Then the fire of the Lord fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench. 39 When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, “The Lord —he is God! The Lord —he is God!” Hymn 196 ‘Come Holy Ghost Our Hearts inspire ‘ Sermon ‘ Can a nation be Changed ? part 2 ‘ The wonderful story of Elijah confronting the idolatry of Israel on Mount Carmel is a thrilling account of how God can indeed change a nation. We can look at three things in this passage; The Response of the Convicted Conscience The Result of Reasoned Argument The Realisation of the Truth hymn 564 ‘ Guide me O thou Great Jehovah ‘ Sunday School at the Church hall between 3.30 4.30 PM 6 PM English Bible Reading Zechariah 4 Sermon Can a Nation be changed ? part 3 “ ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.” (Zechariah 4:6 NIV) Tonight’s praise Psalm 24 v1-6 ‘ The earth belongs unto the Lord ‘ Para 2 ‘ O God of Bethel ‘ Hymn 194 ‘ Breathe on me breath of God ‘ Psalm 24: 7-10 ‘ Ye Gates lift up your heads on high ’