Evening Worship
Evening Worship at 6.30 pm has a different feel to the morning. It tends to be a smaller gathering of people, and is sometimes held in the sanctuary, sometimes in the Lower Hall. It tends to be fairly free in its form, though generally followed by an opportunity for fellowship over refreshments, and time for group discussion. Thus it is set up to allow questions to be asked and issues to be debated.
In recent years we have arranged our evening worship under umbrella themes:
- In 2005, “Year of the Bible”, we read through the whole of the canon of Scripture
- In 2006, “Year of the Church”, we travelled through two millennia of church history
- In 2007, “Year of Faith”, we took up major themes in church teaching (doctrine)
- In 2008, “Year of Life”, we have been taking up themes in Christian Ethics
- In 2009, we have broken the year up into several units, looking, amongst others, at "health and healing", Paul's letter to the Ephesians and the "I am" sayings
Although many of these services are led by our own people, we have also been glad to welcome visiting speakers on occasion.
"Lord, Teach us to Pray”
| Date |
Title |
Preacher |
Mode |
| 14th February |
Why pray? |
Peter Donald |
Contemporary |
| 21st February |
The importance of prayer |
Abbot of Pluscarden |
Roman Catholic |
| 28th Feburary |
The language and resources for prayer |
Peter Donald |
Celtic |
7th
March |
Where thanksgiving takes us |
Fr James Bell |
Eastern Orthodox |
14th
March |
Difficulties of prayer |
Stewart Robertson |
CoS Book of Common Order |
21st
March |
Types of prayer - pulling ideas together |
Peter Donald |
Taizé |
Úr Isten, a mi Mennyei Atyánk
Seyè, Bondye, papa nou nan syèl la
A Thighearna ‘sa Dhia
Lord God, our heavenly Father
Mister God, this is Anna…..
What language do we use for prayer? Everyday language? Different language for different occasions? Why do we pray? What are the difficulties? These are some of the subjects to be tackled in a series of six evening services under the general title “Lord, Teach us to Pray”, to be held on Sundays in Lent this year, starting on 14th February. As well as Peter Donald and Stewart Robertson, we hope to have visiting preachers from Pluscarden Abbey and the Roman Catholic parish ministry. Each night, the praise and prayer will be taken from a different tradition of the church, led by people from our congregation. This promises to be an important and memorable series and we would like you to come. Do this for Lent, a season when we give up something familiar, releasing time and energy for something new!
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