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The week ahead Monday 9th Jan 7.30pm Evening bible study in the church hall. Everyone welcome. Studying characters in the Old Testament. Wed 11th Jan 10.15am Women’s bible study, at Dolina Murray’s house, 34b Lionel. All women welcome. Wed 11th Jan 7.30pm Midweek prayer meeting, church hall. Wed 11th Jan 8.30pm Nomination committee meeting in the church hall. Fri 13th Jan 7.30pm – 9pm Rock Solid in Spors Nis. Open to all P5 to S2. Services next Sunday 15th January 2017 11am service (church hall) Rev Murdo Smith 3.30pm Sunday school (church hall) for all P1-S2 children 6pm service (church hall) Rev Murdo Smith Dates for your diary Tuesday 17th Jan 7.30pm Film night in the church hall. This month’s film will be ‘God’s Not Dead 2’ (PG cert). Monday 23rd Jan 7.30pm Evening bible study in the church hall. Everyone welcome. Thank you to everyone who contributed so generously to the foodbank collection. 8th January 2017 A very warm welcome to our services of worship today. We pray that you will all know God’s blessing as we meet together. Worship this morning is led by Mr Murdo Smith, and this evening by Mr Iain Macmillan. 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 and are made available free of charge to the housebound and elderly. Please ask one of the office bearers if you would like a copy. Crèche available by request. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/eaglaisnis or via Google by entering ‘@eaglaisnis’ www.crossnesschurch.com for more information and audio content. If you would like information posted on the website, please contact Chris on 810112 or email the website crossnesschurch@gmail.com Cross Ness Church of Scotland is a registered Scottish Charity No.SC000991 11 o’clock service led by Mr Murdo Smith Praise: Ps 118 v1-9 Praise: Ps 63 v1-8 Praise: Ps 72 v16-19 Praise: Hymn 479 ‘Love Divine, all loves excelling’ Reading: 1 John 4 (ESV) 4 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. 4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgement, because as he is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God”, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. Tea/Coffee will be served after the morning service to which everyone is warmly invited 3.30pm Sunday school (church hall) for all P1-S2 children 6pm service – led by Mr Iain Macmillan Please continue to pray for our congregation, that we would know the Lord’s blessing at this time. We continue to pray for all in our congregation and community who are in hospital or are ill in any way. If you know of someone who needs prayer at this time, please let one of the Elders know