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Sunday Focus

Remembrance Sunday

8th November 2026

John 15 memorial

Hymn - O God our help

Gracious God,
We thank You for the bravery and dedication of the men and women who served selflessly for our freedom. May we honor their memory by living lives that reflect gratitude and service to others.
“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” (John 15:13)
We thank You, Lord, for their sacrifice.
Amen.

Hymn - Eternal Father

John 15:9-17 New International Version - UK

9 ‘As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My command is this: love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit – fruit that will last – and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: love each other.

Hymn - O Lord we look upon the past

In Flanders Fields

Lord of death and life,
on this Remembrance Sunday,
we choose again to follow the Prince of Peace
and to seek the blessing of being a peacemaker.

Lord of a future and a hope,
on this Remembrance Sunday,
we ask that your peace may rule in our hearts
and that this peace will overflow to our neighbours.

Lord of yesterday, today and tomorrow,
on this Remembrance Sunday,
we commit ourselves afresh
to walk the way of peace,
to love our enemies,
to welcome the stranger,
to honour those who have gone before,
and to work on behalf of those who will come after us,
so that the whole earth may be renewed
with the peace that passes understanding.
In the name of Jesus
Amen

The Lord's Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever.

Amen.

Hymn- God is our Strength and Refuge