1 Samuel 17:31-50

The Week Ahead Wed 22nd Feb – 10.15am Women’s Bible Study at Rachel Barrowman’s house, 16 Eorodale. All women welcome. Wed 22nd Feb - 7.30pm midweek prayer meeting Fri 24th Feb – 7.30pm -Rock Solid at Spors Nis for all P5-S2 Services next Sunday 26th February 2017 11am (church hall) Sunday school for all P1-S2 children 3.30pm-church hall 6pm (church hall) Dates for your diary Mon 27 Feb – 7.30pm Bible study in church hall Tue 28th Feb – 8pm Chit Chat – Jonathan MacIver from The Gambia Partnership Fri 3rd March – 7.30pm – Women’s prayer group in church hall Holiday Club 3rd – 7th July This year will be the 10th Anniversary of the th Holiday Club and the theme will be ‘Showstoppers': Get ready to lift the curtain on the greatest show on earth - God’s great plan for salvation! Everyone from the most experienced actor or musician to the most stage-shy can help. The theme explores the stories of creation, David and Goliath, Daniel in the lion’s den, Jesus’ birth, and His crucifixion and resurrection. Anyone willing to help with any aspect of the club please let Chris or Rachel know. The team would value your prayers for this year’s club, that the Lord would bless it and all would be done to His glory 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. The nomination committee would value the congregation’s prayers at this time for God’s guidance, wisdom and discernment as they continue to search for a new minister. 19th February 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 Chris Barrowman and this evening by Mr John Hebditch 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.SC00099 Praise: NEP 71 Praise: NEP 13 Praise: NEP 14 Reading: 1 Samuel 17 31:50 31 What David said was overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him. 32 David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.” 33 Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.” 34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it.36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. 37 The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you.” 38 Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. 39 David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. “I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not used to them.” So he took them off. 40 Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine. 41 Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David. 42 He looked David over and saw that he was little more than a boy, glowing with health and handsome, and he despised him. 43 He said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44 “Come here,” he said, “and I’ll give your flesh to the birds and the wild animals!” 45 David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. 47 All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.” 48 As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. 49 Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground. 50 So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him. Tea/Coffee will be served after the morning service to which everyone is warmly invited 3.30pmSunday school (church hall) for all P1-S2 children 6pm Service – Mr John Hebditch