Sunday Service – 7th December 2025

Sunday Service for 7th December 2025 with Rev Nigel Chikanya

Opening Voluntaries include:
O Magnum Mysterium – Morten Lauridsen
Meditation on “In the Bleak Mid Winter” – Paul Fey
Mid Winter – Bob Chilcott

Welcome & Intimations

CH4 472: Come thou long expected Jesus
CCLI Song # 2276425 – Charles Wesley | Christian Friedrich Witt © Words & Music: Public Domain

Prayer
All Age / Children’s Talk

CH4 310: See him lying on a bed of straw
CCLI Song # 626892 – Michael Perry © Words & Music: 1965 Michael Perry – The Jubilate Group (Admin. by Jubilate Hymns Ltd, sub to Hope Publishing for various regions) (The Jubilate Group)

Offering: Dormi Jesu – John Rutter
Reading: Romans 4: 1-8

VIDEO: Come adore the Humble King
CCLI Song # 7134769 – Matt Boswell | Matt Papa ©2018 Getty Music Hymns and Songs; Getty Music Publishing; Love Your Enemies Publishing; Messenger Hymns

Sermon: The Faith That Looks Forward

CH4 305: In the bleak mid winter
CCLI Song # 294736 – Christina Georgina Rossetti | Gustav Theodore Holst © Words & Music: Public Domain

Prayer CH4 316: Love came down at Christmas
CCLI Song # 276338 – Christina Georgina Rossetti | David Evans © Words & Music: Public Domain

Benediction
Closing Voluntary: On Christmas Night – Noel Rawesthorn

Licensing – CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LE-0037137. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.