Sunday Focus

31st August 2025

 
Welcome to this weeks Sunday Focus, we pray you will be blessed.

This week we continue to look at a passage in Acts.
We have finished the series on Acts in Church but we will keep going on Sunday Focus.


 

Hymn - When Morning Gilds The Skies

 

  Song - Come People of the Risen King

 

Gracious God,
Thank You for the quiet mercies that fill our days—
for the strength to do good,
for the peace that comes from contentment,
and for the honour that comes not from status, but from Your love.

Thank You for the times we've been invited in,
welcomed when we had nothing to give,
and seen when we felt invisible.

Thank You for Christ—
unchanging, faithful, and near—
the One who teaches us humility,
who calls us to take the lower seat,
and who lifts us in grace.

Help us to live thankfully,
trusting not in recognition or reward,
but in the joy of walking with You each day.

In Jesus' name,
Amen.
 

Song -  Faithful One

 

Acts 18:1-10

In Corinth

18 After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them, 3 and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them. 4 Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

5 When Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. 6 But when they opposed Paul and became abusive, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

7 Then Paul left the synagogue and went next door to the house of Titius Justus, a worshiper of God. 8 Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his entire household believed in the Lord; and many of the Corinthians who heard Paul believed and were baptized.

9 One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. 10 For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.” 11 So Paul stayed in Corinth for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.

 
Last week we read about Paul's time in Athens and his concern about who or what the people were worshipping. He spent time telling people about Jesus and the need for repentance.

He then travelled to Corinth, where he spent about a year and a half working with Priscilla making and repairing tents and shelters. He meets opposition in the synagogue and so moves next door.  We don't need to be in a specific building to worship God and tell others about Jesus!  The Lord speaks to Paul in a vision and tells him to keep going and to not be afraid.  Sometimes when things get a bit tough we want to give up, but we can trust God to be with us and help us to carry on.

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Song -  The God We Love (Nicene Creed)

 

 

The Lord's Prayer

Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours
now and for ever.
Amen. 

 

 

Hymn -  Man of Sorrows Lamb of God

 

 

May you go into the world with a heart that delights in God's ways,
a spirit steady and unafraid,
hands open to give and to bless.
May your life be rich in good deeds,
your praise constant, and your kindness known.
And may the God of peace go with you.
Amen..