Sunday Service from Hillside Circuit for August 4th 2024:
Lectionary Theme: Jesus is the bread of life
Occasion: 11th Sunday after Pentecost
Lectionary readings:
Psalm 78: 23-29
Exodus 16: 2-4
Ephesians 4: 1-16
John 6: 24-35
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Songs:
Here are the songs for Sunday morning service. Click or tap on a song to open it in YouTube.
How sweet the name.
Seek ye first.
King of Kings, Majesty.
Hide me now (Still).
Guide me O Thou great Jehovah.
Make me a channel.
Forgive our sins.
Christ be beside me.
You can listen and join in with prayers from the English Methodist Service Book. They can be found at the Prayers for worship webpage.
From the archives:
The following are taken from the Sunday Worship of August 1st 2021:
Children’s Address:
Sermon:
Bible readings:
Psalm 78
23 But God gave a command to the clouds,
and he opened the doors in the skies.
24 From heaven he sent grain that they called manna.
25 He gave them more than enough,
and each one of them ate this special food.
26 God’s mighty power
brought a strong wind from the southeast,
27 and it brought birds that covered the ground,
like sand on the beach.
28 Then God made the birds fall
in the camp of his people near their tents.
29 God gave his people all they wanted,
and each of them ate until they were full.
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Exodus 16
2 There in the desert they started complaining to Moses and Aaron, 3 “We wish the LORD had killed us in Egypt. When we lived there, we could at least sit down and eat all the bread and meat we wanted. But you have brought us out here into this desert, where we are going to starve.”
4 The LORD said to Moses, “I will send bread down from heaven like rain. Each day the people can go out and gather only enough for that day. That’s how I will see if they obey me.
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Ephesians 4
1 As a prisoner of the Lord, I beg you to live in a way that is worthy of the people God has chosen to be his own. 2 Always be humble and gentle. Patiently put up with each other and love each other. 3 Try your best to let God’s Spirit keep your hearts united. Do this by living at peace. 4 All of you are part of the same body. There is only one Spirit of God, just as you were given one hope when you were chosen to be God’s people. 5 We have only one Lord, one faith, and one baptism. 6 There is one God who is the Father of all people. Not only is God above all others, but he works by using all of us, and he lives in all of us.
7 Christ has generously divided out his gifts to us. 8 As the Scriptures say,
“When he went up to the highest place,
he led away many prisoners and gave gifts to people.”
9 When it says, “he went up,” it means that Christ had been deep in the earth. 10 This also means that the one who went deep into the earth is the same one who went into the highest heaven, so that he would fill the whole universe.
11 Christ chose some of us to be apostles, prophets, missionaries, pastors, and teachers, 12 so that his people would learn to serve and his body would grow strong. 13 This will continue until we are united by our faith and by our understanding of the Son of God. Then we will be mature, just as Christ is, and we will be completely like him.
14 We must stop acting like children. We must not let deceitful people trick us by their false teachings, which are like winds that toss us around from place to place. 15 Love should always make us tell the truth. Then we will grow in every way and be more like Christ, the head 16 of the body. Christ holds it together and makes all of its parts work perfectly, as it grows and becomes strong because of love.
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John 6
24 They saw that Jesus and his disciples had left. Then they got into the boats and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus. 25 They found him on the west side of the lake and asked, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”
26 Jesus answered, “I tell you for certain that you are not looking for me because you saw the miracles, but because you ate all the food you wanted. 27 Don’t work for food that spoils. Work for food that gives eternal life. The Son of Man will give you this food, because God the Father has given him the right to do so.”
28 “What exactly does God want us to do?” the people asked.
29 Jesus answered, “God wants you to have faith in the one he sent.”
30 They replied, “What miracle will you work, so that we can have faith in you? What will you do? 31 For example, when our ancestors were in the desert, they were given manna to eat. It happened just as the Scriptures say, ‘God gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ “
32 Jesus then told them, “I tell you for certain that Moses wasn’t the one who gave you bread from heaven. My Father is the one who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 And the bread that God gives is the one who came down from heaven to give life to the world.”
34 The people said, “Lord, give us this bread and don’t ever stop!”
35 Jesus replied:
I am the bread that gives life! No one who comes to me will ever be hungry. No one who has faith in me will ever be thirsty.
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[Did you miss last week’s Sunday Services? They can now be found at Worship Archive – July 28th 2024.]
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