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Greenbank Parish Church, Edinburgh
Sunday 26th October 2025
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
In-Person and Livestreamed Worship, 10.30am
Worship Leader: Rev Ian Gilmour
Organist: Alberto Massimo
Order of Service
(Hymns are from CH4 and readings are from NRSV, except where stated otherwise)
Theme: The life of faith
Organ:
The first three movements of the Organ Sonata no 2 in C Minor, by Felix Mendelssohn
Welcome and Intimations
Call to Worship
Hymn 185: Come, children, join and sing [Tune: Madrid]
Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer
Baptism: Alexander Douglas Thomson Boyd (Sandy)
Baptismal Hymn 633: Child of blessing [Tune: Shipston]
Reading: 2 Timothy 4:6–8 & 16–18 (NT p211) [Reader: Ian Thomson]
Hymn 153: Great is thy faithfulness [Tune: Faithfulness] (The Band)
Reading: Luke 18:9–14 (NT p78) [Reader: Angus McLachlan]
Anthem: Praise, O Praise, by Martin How
Sermon
Hymn 517: Fight the good fight [Tune: Duke Street]
Prayers of thanksgiving and for others, led by Duncan Macniven
Hymn 264: Judge Eternal, throned in splendour [Tune: Rhuddlan]
Benediction, with sung Amen at Hymn 822
Organ:
The last movement (Fugue) of the Organ Sonata no 2 in C Minor, by Felix Mendelssohn