Sunday Service from Hillside Circuit for July 28th 2024:
Lectionary Theme: God loves us enough to provide for us
Occasion: 10th Sunday after Pentecost
Lectionary readings:
Psalm 145: 10-18
2 Kings 4: 42-44
Ephesians 3: 14-21
John 6: 1-21
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Songs:
Here are the songs for Sunday morning service. Click or tap on a song to open it in YouTube.
All creatures of our God.
Give thanks.
There is none like you.
Siyabonga.
For the beauty of the earth.
Now thank we all our God.
To God be the Glory.
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:
[No Children’s Address was recorded this week.]
Sermon:
Bible readings:
Psalm 145
10 All creation will thank you,
and your loyal people will praise you.
11 They will tell about
your marvellous kingdom and your power.
12 Then everyone will know about
the mighty things you do and your glorious kingdom.
13 Your kingdom will never end, and you will rule forever.
Our LORD, you keep your word
and do everything you say.
14 When someone stumbles or falls,
you give a helping hand.
15 Everyone depends on you, and when the time is right,
you provide them with food.
16 By your own hand
you satisfy the desires of all who live.
17 Our LORD, everything you do is kind and thoughtful,
18 and you are near to everyone whose prayers are sincere.
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2 Kings 4
42 A man from the town of Baal-Shalishah brought Elisha some freshly cut grain and twenty loaves of bread made from the first barley that was harvested. Elisha said, “Give it to the people so they can eat.”
43 “There’s not enough here for a hundred people,” his servant said.
“Just give it to them,” Elisha replied. “The LORD has promised there will be more than enough.”
44 So the servant served the bread and grain to the people. They ate and still had some left over, just as the LORD had promised.
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Ephesians 3
14 I kneel in prayer to the Father. 15 All beings in heaven and on earth receive their life from him. 16 God is wonderful and glorious. I pray that his Spirit will make you become strong followers 17 and that Christ will live in your hearts because of your faith. Stand firm and be deeply rooted in his love. 18 I pray that you and all of God’s people will understand what is called wide or long or high or deep. 19 I want you to know all about Christ’s love, although it is too wonderful to be measured. Then your lives will be filled with all that God is.
20-21 I pray that Christ Jesus and the church will forever bring praise to God. His power at work in us can do far more than we dare ask or imagine. Amen.
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John 6
1 Jesus crossed Lake Galilee, which was also known as Lake Tiberias. 2 A large crowd had seen him work miracles to heal the sick, and those people went with him. 3-4 It was almost time for the Jewish festival of Passover, and Jesus went up on a mountain with his disciples and sat down.
5 When Jesus saw the large crowd coming toward him, he asked Philip, “Where will we get enough food to feed all these people?” 6 He said this to test Philip, since he already knew what he was going to do.
7 Philip answered, “Don’t you know that it would take almost a year’s wages just to buy only a little bread for each of these people?”
8 Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the disciples. He spoke up and said, 9 “There is a boy here who has five small loaves of barley bread and two fish. But what good is that with all these people?”
10 The ground was covered with grass, and Jesus told his disciples to have everyone sit down. About five thousand men were in the crowd. 11 Jesus took the bread in his hands and gave thanks to God. Then he passed the bread to the people, and he did the same with the fish, until everyone had plenty to eat.
12 The people ate all they wanted, and Jesus told his disciples to gather up the leftovers, so that nothing would be wasted. 13 The disciples gathered them up and filled twelve large baskets with what was left over from the five barley loaves.
14 After the people had seen Jesus work this miracle, they began saying, “This must be the Prophet who is to come into the world!” 15 Jesus realized that they would try to force him to be their king. So he went up on a mountain, where he could be alone.
16 That evening, Jesus’ disciples went down to the lake. 17 They got into a boat and started across for Capernaum. Later that evening Jesus had still not come to them, 18 and a strong wind was making the water rough.
19 When the disciples had rowed for three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the water. He kept coming closer to the boat, and they were terrified. 20 But he said, “I am Jesus! Don’t be afraid!” 21 The disciples wanted to take him into the boat, but suddenly the boat reached the shore where they were headed.
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[Did you miss last week’s Sunday Services? They can now be found at Worship Archive – July 21st 2024.]
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