Worship Archive – April 2nd 2023

[Did you miss last week’s Sunday Services? They can now be found at Worship Archive – March 26th 2023.]

Sunday Service from Connexion for April 2nd 2023:

Audio message for Connexion on April 2nd 2023 with Rev Dr K Paradza.

Sunday Service from Hillside Circuit for April 2nd 2023:

Lectionary Theme: Submit to Jesus to be saved

Occasion: Palm Sunday

Lectionary readings:
Psalm 118: 1-2, 19-29
Matthew 21: 1-11

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Songs:

Here are the songs for Sunday morning service. Click or tap on a song to open it in YouTube.

Trotting, trotting.
Make way, make way.
Come children.
Children of Jerusalem.
Hosanna, hosanna.
See him come.
Ride on.
May the Lord.

You can listen and join in with prayers from the English Methodist Service Book. They can be found at the Prayers for worship webpage.

Children’s Address:

Audio Children’s Address for Hillside Circuit on April 2nd 2023 with Mrs Angela Penduka.

Sermon:

Audio message for Hillside Circuit on April 2nd 2023 with Rev Bekithemba Phiri – Sunday Service.
Audio message for Hillside Circuit on April 2nd 2023 with Rev Bekithemba Phiri – Sermon.

Bible readings:

Psalm 118

1 Tell the LORD how thankful you are,
because he is kind and always merciful.

2 Let Israel shout, “God is always merciful!”

19 Open the gates of justice!
I will enter and tell the LORD how thankful I am.

20 Here is the gate of the LORD!
Everyone who does right may enter this gate.

21 I praise the LORD
for answering my prayers and saving me.
22 The stone that the builders tossed aside
has now become the most important stone.

23 The LORD has done this, and it is amazing to us.
24 This day belongs to the LORD!
Let’s celebrate and be glad today.
25 We’ll ask the LORD to save us!
We’ll sincerely ask the LORD to let us win.

26 God bless the one who comes in the name of the LORD!
We praise you from here in the house of the LORD.

27 The LORD is our God, and he has given us light!
Start the celebration!
March with palm branches all the way to the altar.

28 The LORD is my God!
I will praise him and tell him how thankful I am.

29 Tell the LORD how thankful you are,
because he is kind and always merciful.

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Matthew 21

1 When Jesus and his disciples came near Jerusalem, he went to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives and sent two of them on ahead. 2 He told them, “Go into the next village, where you will at once find a donkey and her colt. Untie the two donkeys and bring them to me. 3 If anyone asks why you are doing that, just say, ‘The Lord needs them.’ Right away he will let you have the donkeys.”
4 So God’s promise came true, just as the prophet had said,

5 “Announce to the people of Jerusalem:
‘Your king is coming to you!
He is humble and rides on a donkey.
He comes on the colt of a donkey.’ “

6 The disciples left and did what Jesus had told them to do. 7 They brought the donkey and its colt and laid some clothes on their backs. Then Jesus got on.
8 Many people spread clothes in the road, while others put down branches which they had cut from trees. 9 Some people walked ahead of Jesus and others followed behind. They were all shouting,

“Hooray for the Son of David!
God bless the one who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hooray for God in heaven above!”

10 When Jesus came to Jerusalem, everyone in the city was excited and asked, “Who can this be?”
11 The crowd answered, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”

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