Let All the World Look to Me for Salvation!

welcome to DINGWALL & STRATHPEFFER free church God calls us to delight in Christ and to share His Hope. www.deep-river.co.uk th Sunday – 10 July 2011 ‘Let all the world look to me for salvation! For I am God; there is no other.’ Isaiah 45:22 (NLT)

Welcome! We meet for worship today in Dingwall Free Church for family worship at 11.00 am with the minister (John 3 - Look to the Cross) and evening worship at 6:00 pm with Dan Paterson (Psalm 22, the Psalm of the Cross). We welcome all our visitors. It is a special pleasure to welcome back James and Vickie Ross who are here to visit the Rae family. Today is the last day of Dan Paterson’s placement with us. We express our thanks to Dan for his ministry, which we have all greatly enjoyed. Crèche: Most children will be remaining in church today for our family worship. A crèche is available. Parents may take the little ones out after the second singing. Lunch: A bring-and-share buffet lunch is served in the hall after morning service. All are welcome. If you have a dish to share please pop that into the hall before church this morning. Walk: After the lunch (and weather permitting) Jonathan and George have planned a congregational walk along the River Averon to Loch Morie. The walk starts near Boath and takes about two hours and will suit most abilities. All are welcome. Today there is a monthly offering for our OMF partners, the Raes and Sandra MacDonald. Sandra has asked us to pass on her thanks for recent support gifts.

EVENTS THIS WEEK & UPCOMING EVENTS Mini Marvels and Sunday School are now on holiday. Prayer Meeting: Join us for an hour of prayer and Bible Study in the hall this Wednesday at 7.30 pm. All are welcome. The Kirk Session will meet in the hall after the prayer meeting on Wednesday. Wedding: The marriage of Samuel (de la Haye) and Mairi (Finlay) takes place on Friday, 22nd July at 1.30pm in Free North Church, Inverness. You are most welcome to join the families for the service. The induction of Rev Gavino Fioretti (as assistant minister at Greyfriars) will take place at Greyfriars Free Church, Inverness, on Friday 29th July at 7 pm. Join us for a BBQ at the MacKenzie’s home, Rowan Cottage, Knockfarrel, on Friday 12th August. Sets of Offering Envelopes for the next year are available in the porch. Contact Murdo MacArthur (861250) if you wish to request a set for the first time. OMF: The local prayer group meet on the second Friday of each month at 10.30 am at Christine Craig’s home, Fourways, 8 Gladstone Avenue, Dingwall (Tel: 864511). There is no meeting in August, and the group meet next on 9th September.

BIBLE READING RESOURCES Copies of the Explore Bible reading notes are available today (£3). These are a great resource to support regular daily Bible reading. You may also wish to try the online version of For the Love of God, a daily devotion by Don Carson available at http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/loveofgod/. The same set of daily readings (based on Robert Murray McCheyne’s one year Bible reading plan) is available at www.gnpcb.org/esv/devotions/one.year.tract/.

THANKS Our sincere thanks to the minibus drivers and all who helped provide lunch for the lads from the football camp last Sunday. Your care and effort was much appreciated. PRAYER Give thanks for the safe homecoming of the Rae family, and pray for them as they move to their home at 5 Davidson Drive and settle into life in the UK. Pray for the Dawn for the Poor work and house churches they left behind in Calapan. Pray for all involved in Free Church and Scripture Union Camps, and English language Camps in Eastern Europe over the summer. Pray that God would work and that all would be kept safe. John de la Haye is away preaching today at Balintore United Free Church. The Maryburgh congregation has sent a call to Rev Alec Stewart. Pray for the people affected by the drought in East Africa. Yesterday the nation of South Sudan was formed. Pray for peace and security, and for the gospel to work in that region. Much of East Africa has known revival in the past 60 years. Pray that God would once again bless the region. Tear Fund, AIM, SIM and other Christian agencies are active serving needy people in North and South Sudan. Remember Dan Paterson, Penny and Fox as they leave us this Monday. Jessie MacDonald has been in hospital, and we commit her to God’s care. Remember those of the church family who are away on holiday, that they would be refreshed and encouraged. SERVING ONE ANOTHER Welcome Team: Fred Lees, Angus MacKay, Murdo MacKay, & Joan Chamier-Tripp. Crèche: 10th - Sina MacRae & Joan Ross. 17th - Mairi MacKay & Connie Garraway. Minibus: 10th - D MacRae (865998). 17th – M MacArthur (861250). 24th – J MacAskill (863410). 31st – H Reid (863746). Please call Fred Lees (864297) or the appropriate driver to request a lift to church. Nursing homes: Fodderty at 1.45 pm, 17th July - TBA; 31st July – Rev A MacRae. To Contact the Minister – Rev Angus MacRae: Free Church Manse, Firth View, Dingwall.  01349 862183. (Email: [email protected]). Website: Sermons and news are at www.deep-river.co.uk - or find us on Facebook. Foodbank: Donations for the Highland Foodbank can be left in the church porch.

th COME, LET US WORSHIP (Sunday 10 July) Morning Praise Evening Praise 145:1-7* (p. 189) 57:1-5* (p. 74) Here is love Great is thy faithfulness  He was pierced  22:26-31* (p. 27) 27:7-11* (p. 32) O Lord my God (How great thou art)  Beneath the cross  * = Sing Psalms version.  = with piano accompaniment.

UNISON CALL TO WORSHIP (Psalm 46 NIV):

Minister: God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. ALL: Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. Minister: There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. ALL: God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day. Minister: Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts. ALL: The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Minister: Come and see the works of the LORD, the desolations he has brought on the earth. ALL: He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear, he burns the shields with fire. Minister: “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” ALL: The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.

MORNING SONGS - HERE IS LOVE

Here is love, vast as the ocean, On the mount of crucifixion, Lovingkindness as the flood, Fountains opened deep and wide; When the Prince of Life, our Ransom, Through the floodgates of God’s Shed for us His precious blood. mercy Who His love will not remember? Flowed a vast and gracious tide. Who can cease to sing His praise? Grace and love, like mighty rivers, He can never be forgotten, Poured incessant from above, Throughout Heav’n’s eternal days. And Heav’n’s peace and perfect justice Kissed a guilty world in love.

William Rees 1802-83 8787D

HE WAS PIERCED (ISAIAH 53)

He was pierced for our transgressions and to bring us peace he was punished, and bruised for our iniquities; and by his stripes we are healed. turned each one to his own way, He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and the Lord has laid on him although he was innocent of crime; the iniquity of us all. and cut off from the land of the living, he paid for the guilt that was mine. (descant on repeat of chorus) Like a lamb, like a lamb to the slaughter he came and the Lord laid on him Chorus (sung twice): the iniquity of us all. We like sheep have gone astray, Maggi Dawn – Kingsway Thankyou Music 1987 CCLI No. 1203197

BENEATH THE CROSS Beneath the cross of Jesus The ones that You have loved? I find a place to stand, Beneath the cross of Jesus And wonder at such mercy See the children called by God. That calls me as I am; For hands that should discard me Beneath the cross of Jesus— Hold wounds which tell me, "Come." The path before the crown— Beneath the cross of Jesus We follow in His footsteps My unworthy soul is won. Where promised hope is found. How great the joy before us Beneath the cross of Jesus To be His perfect bride; His family is my own— Beneath the cross of Jesus Once strangers chasing selfish dreams, We will gladly live our lives. Now one through grace alone. How could I now dishonour Words and Music by Keith & Kristyn Getty Copyright © 2005 Thankyou Music

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EVENING SONGS:

‘Great is thy faithfulness’, thou changest not, thy compassions they O God my Father, fail not; there is no shadow of turning with thee; as thou hast been, thou for ever wilt be. ‘Great is thy faithfulness! join with all nature in manifold Great is thy faithfulness!’ witness morning by morning to thy great faithfulness, new mercies I see; mercy and love. all I have needed thy hand hath provided- 3. Pardon for sin ‘Great is thy faithfulness’, and a peace that endureth, Lord, unto me! thy own dear presence to cheer and to guide; 2. Summer and winter, strength for today and springtime and harvest, and bright hope for tomorrow, sun, moon and stars blessings all mine, in their courses above, with ten thousand beside! THOMAS O CHISHOLM (1866-1960) © 1923 Renewal, 1951 Hope Publishing Company CCL Licence No. 1203197

O Lord my God! When I in awesome wonder consider all the works thy hand hath made, I see the stars, I hear the mighty thunder, thy power throughout the universe displayed: Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to thee, how great thou art! How great thou art! Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to thee, how great thou art! How great thou art!

2. When through the woods and forest glades I wander and hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees; when I look down from lofty mountain grandeur and hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze:

3. And when I think that God—his Son not sparing — sent him to die, I scarce can take it in; that on the cross, my burden gladly bearing, he bled and died to take away my sin:

4. When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation and take me home—what joy shall fill my heart! Then I shall bow in humble adoration and there proclaim, my God, how great thou art!