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Greenbank Parish Church, Edinburgh
Sunday 8th February 2026
Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany
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, unless otherwise specified)
Welcome and Intimations
Call to Worship
Hymn 489: Come down, O Love Divine [Tune: Down Ampney]
Prayer and Lord’s Prayer
Baptism of Bronte Whitelaw Sinclair and Lochlan Peter Cowie Sinclair
The Lord bless you and keep you [Hymn 796]
Baptismal Hymn 180: Give thanks with a grateful heart [Tune: Give Thanks] [The Band]
Reading: 1 Corinthians 2: 1–12 (NT p163) [Reader: Fiona Grant]
Hymn 543: Longing for light, we wait in darkness [Tune: Christ be our light] [The Band]
Reading: Matthew 5: 13–20 (NT p4) [Reader: Neale Dutton]
Anthem: Judge Eternal, by Stanley Marchant
Sermon
Hymn 252: As a fire is meant for burning [Tune: Rustington (CH3 615)]
Prayers of thanksgiving and for others, led by Joan Fraser
Hymn 348: Praise the One who breaks the darkness [Tune: Joel]
Benediction, with sung Amen at Hymn 822