Welcome to Dingwall

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Welcome to Dingwall Strathpeffer
Free Church

• God Calls Us to Delight in Christ and to Share
  His Hope.

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• picture
• this Christmas

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COMMUNION TONIGHT
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Psalm 1471-7 (p. 192)

• 1 O praise the LORD! How good it is
• to sing him songs of praise!
• How pleasant to give thanks to him
• for all his gracious ways!

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Psalm 1471-7 2/5

• 2 The LORD builds up Jerusalem
• and he it is alone
• Who reaches out to Israèl
• to bring the exiles home.

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Psalm 1471-7 3/5

• 3 He heals his peoples broken hearts,
• restores the bruised and the lame.
• 4 He sets the number of the stars
• and calls them each by name.

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Psalm 1471-7 4/5

• 5 Great is our Lord and great in power
• his wisdom is profound.
• 6 The LORD sustains the meek, but casts
• the wicked to the ground.

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Psalm 1471-7 5/5

• 7 Sing to the LORD with thankfulness
• with joy his praise proclaim
• And with the music of the harp
• give glory to his name.

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Prayer ScriptureReading
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Scripture Reading1 Corinthians 131-13Page
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1 Corinthians 131-13

• 1231b Love
•     And now I will show you the most
  excellent way.
• 13 1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of
  angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding
  gong or a clanging cymbal.    
• 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can
  fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I
  have a faith that can move mountains, but have
  not love, I am nothing.

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1 Corinthians 131-13

•     3 If I give all I possess to the poor and
  surrender my body to the flames, but have not
  love, I gain nothing.
•     4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not
  envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
•     5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it
  is not easily angered, it keeps no record of
  wrongs.
•     6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices
  with the truth.

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1 Corinthians 131-13

•     7 It always protects, always trusts, always
  hopes, always perseveres.
•     8 Love never fails. But where there are
  prophecies, they will cease where there are
  tongues, they will be stilled where there is
  knowledge, it will pass away.
•     9 For we know in part and we prophesy in
  part,
•     10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect
  disappears.

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1 Corinthians 131-13

•     11 When I was a child, I talked like a
  child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a
  child. When I became a man, I put childish ways
  behind me.
•     12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a
  mirror then we shall see face to face. Now I
  know in part then I shall know fully, even as I
  am fully known.
•     13 And now these three remain faith, hope
  and love.
• But the greatest of these is love.

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Psalm 1159-18 (p. 153)
9 O house of Isrel, place your trust upon the
LORD alone He is the mighty help and shield of
all who are his own.
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Psalm 1159-18 (2/6)
10 O house of Aaron, trust the LORD he is their
help and shield. 11 All you who fear him, trust
the LORD he is your help and shield.
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Psalm 1159-18 (3/6)
12 The LORD remembers Israel and he will bless us
all The house of Aaron and all those 13 who
fear him, great and small.
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Psalm 1159-18 (4/6)
14 May God the LORD make you increase both you
and all your line. 15 May you be blessed by God,
who makes all things by his design.
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Psalm 1159-18 (5/6)
16 The highest heavens belong to God the earth
to us he gave. 17 Its not the dead who praise
the LORD theyre silent in the grave.
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Psalm 1159-18 (6/6)
18 But we extol the LORD on high, his majesty
proclaim. Both now and evermore exalt and praise
his holy name!
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SERMON 1 Corinthians 13(p. 1153)A Love
Supreme
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1 THE REASON FOR 1st CORINTHIANS 13

• A selfish and immature Church needed to see past
  their gifts to Christ - the giver of these
  gifts.
• The right question to ask tonight How will I
  build others up?
• Love is our CORE spiritual activity. Love is not
  dreamy its humbling.

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2 THE MESSAGE IN 1st CORINTHIANS 13

• God has a searching question (1). Why do you do
  the things you do?
• Gods humbling standards.
• Who can possibly fit into this chapter that
  personifies love?
• Gods Lasting Challenge 8, 13. The love that
  endures forever.

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COMMUNION
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1 John 47-21

• God's Love and Ours
•  7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for
  love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been
  born of God and knows God.     8 Whoever does not
  love does not know God, because God is love.
•     9 This is how God showed his love among us
  He sent his one and only Son into the world that
  we might live through him.
•     10 This is love not that we loved God, but
  that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning
  sacrifice for our sins.

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1 John 47-21

•     11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we
  also ought to love one another.
•     12 No-one has ever seen God but if we love
  one another, God lives in us and his love is made
  complete in us.
•     13 We know that we live 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.

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PRAYER OF THANKS
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1 John 47-21

•     15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the
  Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.
•     16 And so we know and rely on the love God
  has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love
  lives in God, and God in him.
•     17 In this way, love is made complete among
  us so that we will have confidence on the day of
  judgment, because in this world we are like him.

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1 John 47-21

•     18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love
  drives out fear, because fear has to do with
  punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect
  in love.
•     19 We love because he first loved us.
•     20 If anyone says, I love God, yet hates his
  brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not
  love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love
  God, whom he has not seen.
•     21 And he has given us this command Whoever
  loves God must also love his brother.

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Psalm 1331-3 (p. 424)
1 Behold, how good a thing it is, and how
becoming well, Together such as brethren are in
unity to dwell!

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Psalm 1331-3 (2/3)
2 Like precious ointment on the head, that down
the beard did flow, Evn Aarons beard, and to
the skirts did of his garments go.

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Psalm 1331-3 (3/3)
3 As Hermons dew, the dew that doth on Zion
hills descend For there the blessing GOD
commands, life that shall never end.

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God Calls Us to delight in Christ and to Share
His Hope.
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• 1471-7 (p. 192) CM
• 1159-18 (p. 153) CM
• 1331-3 (p. 424) CM

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