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Bolingbroke Deanery Team Parishes Faithful, Confident, Joyful 6th September 2020 (Green) Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity 9.00am Sunday Service at Home Watch the service Recognising teachers and school staff as unsung heroes Featuring contributions from St Thomas CofE Academy, this online service is led by Rev Tim Bateman from Gas Street Church, recognising teachers and school staff as unsung heroes and praying for the start of the new school year. The Dean of Birmingham, Matt Thompson, preaches and Sarah Smith, Director of Education for the Church of England in Birmingham, shares a reflection. https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/church-online 13th Sunday after Trinity Seeking God’s Kingdom Services in the Spilsby Cluster 9.30am Hundleby Morning Prayer (FJ) Banns 1st: Joshua Thomas Croney (s) Hundleby & Alexandra Jane Holmes (s) Burgh le Marsh (Hundleby 10/10/20) Also: Andrew David Bray (pmd) & Tara Louise Clarke (s) both of Skegness (Hundleby 31/10/20) 10.00am Spilsby Informal Service (JC) 3.00pm Great Steeping Eucharist (PC) 4.00pm Spilsby Eucharist (PC) Services in the Marden Hill Cluster 9.30am East Keal Holy Communion (+DR) Services in the Stickney Cluster 11.15am Stickney Morning Worship (FJ) Services in the Partney Cluster 11.15am Partney Morning Prayer (PC) Services in the South Ormsby Cluster 9.30am Tetford Holy Communion (PC) 10.00am Prayer in our own homes See below 1 Bolingbroke Churches on line: We will continue to publish a short video on YouTube and linked it to our website. Our Web Site http://lincoln.ourchurchweb.org.uk/spilsby/index.php I have created a YouTube Account Bolingbroke Team Churches https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqTDWzvL2jxeB6ESF- aP9Nw?view_as=subscriber Monday The Old Hall Halton Holegate Care Home Tuesday Birth of BV Mary Eresby Hall Care Home 2.00pm Hagworthingham: Wendy Done's Funeral 2.00pm New Leake: Prayer & Bible Study Wednesday Charles Lowder Manor Care East Kirkby 10.30am Spilsby Thursday Old Rectory Stickney Care Home Friday Southwold Tetford Care Home Saturday Churchill & Elizabeth House Spilsby 10.00am RIDE & STRIDE Saturday to 6pm Next Sunday – 14th Sunday after Trinity Seeking God’s Kingdom Services in the Spilsby Cluster 9.30am Spilsby Holy Communion (PC) 4.00pm Spilsby Evensong (PC) Services in the Marden Hill Cluster 9.30am East Keal Holy Communion (+DR) 11.15am Hagworthingham Holy Communion (PC) 3.00pm East Kirkby HARVEST (FJ) Services in the Stickney Cluster 11.15am Stickford Morning Worship (FJ) Services in the Partney Cluster 9.30am Candlesby Morning Prayer (PMcL) 3.00pm Partney Holy Communion (TMcL) Services in the South Ormsby Cluster 9.30am Tetford Morning Prayer (TMcL) 2 Private Prayer in the Following Churches: St James Spilsby Daily 08.00 to 16.00 St Helen East Keal Daily 10.00 to 16.00 St Luke Stickney Thursdays 09.45 to 11.00 St Helen Stickford Thursdays 10.00 to 11.30 St Mary Hundleby Daily 10.00 to 14.00 Daily 8am Morning Prayer at Noon God of love, turn our hearts to Your ways and give us peace. Amen Bolingbroke Team Ministry Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity Morning Worship The night is far gone: the day is near. Let us lay aside works of darkness: and put on the armour of light. Now is the moment to awake from sleep: and put on the Lord Jesus Christ. As we gather in his name: may the Lord be with us. Amen. Hymn Let all the world in every corner sing, my God and King! The heavens are not too high, his praise may thither fly, the earth is not too low, his praises there may grow. Let all the world in every corner sing, my God and King! Let all the world in every corner sing, my God and King! The church with psalms must shout, no door can keep them out; but, above all, the heart must bear the longest part. Let all the world in every corner sing, my God and King! George Herbert (1593 - 1633) Invitation to Confession The sun of righteousness has dawned with healing in his wings. Let us come to the light of Christ, confessing our sins in penitence and faith. A prayer of confession 3 Loving and forgiving God, you know our faults before we know them ourselves, and you desire to heal and restore us: enlighten our minds and hearts to see more clearly the hurt we have caused others and the good things we have failed to do. In your mercy, do not let us be over-burdened by our faults and neglect, but forgive us and lead us to new life in you, for the sake of your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. Assurance of sins forgiven May God who loved the world so much that he sent his Son to be our Saviour forgive us our sins and make us holy to serve him in the world, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. A Reading from Ezekiel 33:7-11 So you, mortal, I have made a sentinel for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked ones, you shall surely die’, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from their ways, the wicked shall die in their iniquity, but their blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked to turn from their ways, and they do not turn from their ways, the wicked shall die in their iniquity, but you will have saved your life. Now you, mortal, say to the house of Israel, Thus you have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins weigh upon us, and we waste away because of them; how then can we live?’ Say to them, As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from their ways and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel? A Reading from Romans 13.8–14 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. The commandments, ‘You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not covet’; and any other commandment, are summed up in this word, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ Love does no wrong to a neighbour; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law. Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armour of light; let us live honourably as in the day, not in revelling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarrelling and jealousy. Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. 4 Hymn There's a quiet understanding, when we're gathered in the Spirit It's a promise that he gives us when we gather in his name There's a love we feel in Jesus, there's a manna that he feeds us It's a promise that he gives us when we gather in His name And we know when we're together sharing love and understanding That our brothers and our sisters feel the oneness that He brings Thank you, thank you, thank you, Jesus, for the way you love and feed us For the many ways you lead us, thank you, thank you, Lord E. R Smith Reading from the Gospel of Matthew 18:15-20 ‘If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one. But if you are not listened to, take one or two others along with you, so that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If the member refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if the offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you as a Gentile and a tax- collector. Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.’ Homily from the Diocesan Website We live in an age where we are very conscious of time and most of us are keen to keep to time and to always keep our appointments. We regularly look at our clocks, watches and perhaps even our phones to check the time. In these days of lock down we may even feel that time is dragging because we can’t occupy ourselves with the enjoyable things we used to do. In the times of the Roman Empire, however, telling the time was less precise and so people were less concerned about it. But the early church Christians were deeply fixated on the promised return of Christ, and concern over its timing as a subject that considerably occupied the early Church. So, today, let us reflect on our reading from Romans which relates to this important time; the time of Christ’s return.