With a relaxing of the lock down rules during the Coronavirus crisis the church is able to run services again in the sanctuary, but with a limited number of worshippers. However, the decision to simultaneously continue with the live-stream services online was taken.

Below is the recording of the sermon for this week. Former pastor Peter Neale answers why it is important to remember the harvest and giving thanks to God.

Why Celebrate The Harvest? – Deuteronomy 26:1 – 15 – Rev Peter Neale – 13th September 2020

• Reflective Hymn & Deuteronomy 26:1 - 15

  All Creatures of our God and King

  All creatures of our God and King
  Lift up your voice and with us sing,
  Alleluia! Alleluia!
  Thou burning sun with golden beam,
  Thou silver moon with softer gleam!
  O praise Him! O praise Him!
  Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

  Thou rushing wind that art so strong
  Ye clouds that sail in Heaven along,
  O praise Him! Alleluia!
  Thou rising moon, in praise rejoice,
  Ye lights of evening, find a voice!
  Thou flowing water, pure and clear,
  Make music for thy Lord to hear,
  O praise Him! Alleluia!
  Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

  Thou fire so masterful and bright,
  That givest man both warmth and light.
  Dear mother earth, who day by day
  Unfoldest blessings on our way,
  O praise Him! Alleluia!
  Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

  The flowers and fruits that in thee grow,
  Let them His glory also show.
  And all ye men of tender heart,
  Forgiving others, take your part,
  O sing ye! Alleluia!
  Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

  Ye who long pain and sorrow bear,
  Praise God and on Him cast your care!
  And thou most kind and gentle Death,
  Waiting to hush our latest breath,
  O praise Him! Alleluia!
  Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

  Thou leadest home the child of God,
  And Christ our Lord the way hath trod.
  Let all things their Creator bless,
  And worship Him in humbleness,
  O praise Him! Alleluia!

  Praise, praise the Father, praise the Son,
  And praise the Spirit, Three in One!
  Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
  

  
  
  First Fruits and Tithes
   
  1 When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it, 2 you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name. 3 You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time, and say to him, “Today I declare to the Lord your God that I have come into the land that the Lord swore to our ancestors to give us.” 4 When the priest takes the basket from your hand and sets it down before the altar of the Lord your God, 5 you shall make this response before the Lord your God: “A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous. 6 When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, by imposing hard labor on us, 7 we cried to the Lord, the God of our ancestors; the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. 8 The Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with a terrifying display of power, and with signs and wonders; 9 and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 So now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground that you, O Lord, have given me.” You shall set it down before the Lord your God and bow down before the Lord your God. 11 Then you, together with the Levites and the aliens who reside among you, shall celebrate with all the bounty that the Lord your God has given to you and to your house.
   
  12 When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year (which is the year of the tithe), giving it to the Levites, the aliens, the orphans, and the widows, so that they may eat their fill within your towns, 13 then you shall say before the Lord your God: “I have removed the sacred portion from the house, and I have given it to the Levites, the resident aliens, the orphans, and the widows, in accordance with your entire commandment that you commanded me; I have neither transgressed nor forgotten any of your commandments: 14 I have not eaten of it while in mourning; I have not removed any of it while I was unclean; and I have not offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the Lord my God, doing just as you commanded me. 15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you swore to our ancestors—a land flowing with milk and honey.”

  New Revised Standard Version

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