Sunday Focus

 

22nd March 2026

5th Sunday in Lent
 
 
Welcome to this weeks Sunday Focus, we pray you will be blessed.
 

This week in Church we will have our AGM. During the service we will be hearing about all the different apsects of church life in Coldstream.

 


Psalm 130 1-6

Hymn -Great is Thy Faithfulness

 

Song -  Only By Grace

 

Lord Jesus, 
Help us,  as we draw near to you,
to know that you are the one who is always near to us.
Help us to know that here is where we find refreshment 
To our very souls.
And here too, with you, may we find our past mistakes washed away,
Both the deliberate and the accidental 
As we take and make the time to confess to you, honestly, 
Our imperfections  in thought , word and deed.
Lord, we’re sorry we fail you 
And let you down.
We are sorry we hurt you and others 
As well as ourselves… 
Show us we pray,  how to be more like you – 
In Jesus Name
Amen
 

Song - I'm Accepted, I'm Forgiven

 

 

Reading 

Romans 8:1-11

Romans 8.1-11

8There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed it cannot, 8and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you.

 

Song - Amazing Love (I'm Forgiven Because You Were Forsaken)




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 - In Christ Alone

 
 
May the Lord Jesus Christ,
the Light of the world,
open your eyes to truth,
strengthen your heart for the journey,
and lead you in love.

And may the blessing of almighty God,
the Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer
guide you and affirm you
today and always.

Amen