Worship Archive – March 24th 2024

Sunday Service from Connexion for March 24th 2024:

Audio message for Connexion March 24th 2024 with General Secretary Rev Likhai Molife.

Sunday Service from Hillside Circuit for March 24th 2024:

Lectionary Theme: Jesus’ self emptying is our blessing

Occasion: Palm Sunday

Lectionary readings:
Psalm 31: 9-16
Isaiah 50: 4-9a
Philippians 2: 5-11
Mark 11: 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.
Come children join to sing.
Children of Jerusalem.
Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna in the highest.
See Him come, the King upon a donkey.
Ride on, 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 March 24th 2024 with Mrs Betty Ncube.

Sermon:

Audio message for Hillside Circuit on March 24th 2024 with Rev Margaret James.

Bible readings:

Psalm 31

9 Have pity, LORD! I am hurting and almost blind.
My whole body aches.
10 I have known only sorrow all my life long,
and I suffer year after year.
I am weak from sin, and my bones are limp.

11 My enemies insult me. Neighbours are even worse,
and I disgust my friends.
People meet me on the street, and they turn and run.
12 I am completely forgotten like someone dead.
I am merely a broken dish.
13 I hear the crowds whisper, “Everyone is afraid!”
They are plotting and scheming to murder me.

14 But I trust you, LORD, and I claim you as my God.
15 My life is in your hands.
Save me from enemies who hunt me down.
16 Smile on me, your servant. Have pity and rescue me.

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Isaiah 50

4 The LORD God gives me the right words
to encourage the weary.
Each morning he awakens me eager to learn his teaching;
5 he made me willing to listen and not rebel or run away.

6 I let them beat my back and pull out my beard.
I didn’t turn aside when they insulted me
and spit in my face.
7 But the LORD God keeps me from being disgraced.
So I refuse to give up,
because I know God will never let me down.

8 My protector is nearby; no one can stand here
to accuse me of wrong.
9 The LORD God will help me and prove I am innocent.

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Philippians 2

5 and think the same way that Christ Jesus thought:

6 Christ was truly God.
But he did not try to remain equal with God.
7 He gave up everything and became a slave,
when he became like one of us.

8 Christ was humble. He obeyed God
and even died on a cross.
9 Then God gave Christ the highest place
and honoured his name above all others.

10 So at the name of Jesus everyone will bow down,
those in heaven, on earth, and under the earth.
11 And to the glory of God the Father
everyone will openly agree,
“Jesus Christ is Lord!”

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Mark 11

1 Jesus and his disciples reached Bethphage and Bethany near the Mount of Olives. When they were getting close to Jerusalem, Jesus sent two of them on ahead. 2 He told them, “Go into the next village. As soon as you enter it, you will find a young donkey that has never been ridden. Untie the donkey and bring it here. 3 If anyone asks why you are doing that, say, ‘The Lord needs it and will soon bring it back.’ “
4 The disciples left and found the donkey tied near a door that faced the street. While they were untying it, 5 some of the people standing there asked, “Why are you untying the donkey?” 6 They told them what Jesus had said, and the people let them take it.
7 The disciples led the donkey to Jesus. They put some of their clothes on its back, and Jesus got on. 8 Many people spread clothes on the road, while others went to cut branches from the fields.
9 In front of Jesus and behind him, people went along shouting,

“Hooray! God bless the one
who comes in the name of the Lord!
10 God bless the coming kingdom of our ancestor David.
Hooray for God in heaven above!”

11 After Jesus had gone to Jerusalem, he went into the temple and looked around at everything. But since it was already late in the day, he went back to Bethany with the twelve disciples.

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[Did you miss last week’s Sunday Services? They can now be found at Worship Archive – March 17th 2024.]