Sunday Service from Hillside Circuit for January 21st 2024:
Lectionary Theme: Repent and believe the Good News.
Occasion: 3rd Sunday after Epiphany
Lectionary readings:
Psalm 62: 5-12
Jonah 3: 1-5, 10
1 Corinthians 7: 29-31
Mark 1: 14-20
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Songs:
Here are the songs for Sunday morning service. Click or tap on a song to open it in YouTube.
Here is love.
God forgave my sin.
My Jesus, my Saviour.
I worship you.
To be in your presence.
Give thanks.
Dear Lord and Father.
Lord, I come before your throne.
Shalom to you.
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:
Sermon:
Bible readings:
Psalm 62
5 Only God gives inward peace, and I depend on him.
6 God alone is the mighty rock that keeps me safe,
and he is the fortress where I feel secure.
7 God saves me and honours me.
He is that mighty rock where I find safety.
8 Trust God, my friends,
and always tell him each one of your concerns.
God is our place of safety.
9 We humans are only a breath;
none of us are truly great.
All of us together weigh less than a puff of air.
10 Don’t trust in violence or depend on dishonesty
or rely on great wealth.
11 I heard God say two things:
“I am powerful, 12 and I am very kind.”
The LORD rewards each of us according to what we do.
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Jonah 3
1 Once again the LORD told Jonah 2 to go to that great city of Nineveh and preach his message of doom.
3 Jonah obeyed the LORD and went to Nineveh. The city was so big that it took three days just to walk through it. 4 After walking for a day, Jonah warned the people, “Forty days from now, Nineveh will be destroyed!”
5 They believed God’s message and set a time when they would go without eating to show their sorrow. Then everyone in the city, no matter who they were, dressed in sackcloth.
10 When God saw that the people had stopped doing evil things, he had pity and did not destroy them as he had planned.
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1 Corinthians 7
29 My friends, what I mean is that the Lord will soon come, and it won’t matter if you are married or not. 30 It will be all the same if you are crying or laughing, or if you are buying or are completely broke. 31 It won’t make any difference how much good you are getting from this world or how much you like it. This world as we know it is now passing away.
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Mark 1
14 After John was arrested, Jesus went to Galilee and told the good news that comes from God. 15 He said, “The time has come! God’s kingdom will soon be here. Turn back to God and believe the good news!”
16 As Jesus was walking along the shore of Lake Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew. They were fishermen and were casting their nets into the lake. 17 Jesus said to them, “Come with me! I will teach you how to bring in people instead of fish.” 18 Right then the two brothers dropped their nets and went with him.
19 Jesus walked on and soon saw James and John, the sons of Zebedee. They were in a boat, mending their nets. 20 At once Jesus asked them to come with him. They left their father in the boat with the hired workers and went with him.
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[Did you miss last week’s Sunday Services? They can now be found at Worship Archive – January 14th 2024.]
Methodist Church: Hillside Circuit 
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