Sunday Service from Hillside Circuit for November 2nd 2025:
Lectionary Theme: God’s judgment, a call to repentance
Occasion: 21st Sunday after Pentecost
Lectionary readings:
Psalm 32: 1-7
Isaiah 1: 10-18
2 Thessalonians 1: 1-4, (11-12)
Luke 19: 1-10
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Songs:
Here are the songs for Sunday morning service. Click or tap on a song to open it in YouTube.
For the healing of the nations.
Salvation belongs to our God.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus.
When the music fades.
I need Thee every hour.
O safe to the Rock.
O for a thousand tongues.
At the name of Jesus.
Christ be beside me.
Prayers:
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 received today.]
Sermon:
Bible readings:
Psalm 32
1 Our God, you bless everyone
whose sins you forgive and wipe away.
2 You bless them by saying,
“You told me your sins, without trying to hide them,
and now I forgive you.”
3 Before I confessed my sins, my bones felt limp,
and I groaned all day long.
4 Night and day your hand weighed heavily on me,
and my strength was gone as in the summer heat.
5 So I confessed my sins and told them all to you.
I said, “I’ll tell the LORD each one of my sins.”
Then you forgave me and took away my guilt.
6 We worship you, LORD, and we should always pray
whenever we find out that we have sinned.
Then we won’t be swept away by a raging flood.
7 You are my hiding place! You protect me from trouble,
and you put songs in my heart
because you have saved me.
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Isaiah 1
10 You are no better than the leaders and people
of Sodom and Gomorrah!
So listen to the LORD God:
11 “Your sacrifices mean nothing to me.
I am sick of your offerings of rams and choice cattle;
I don’t like the blood of bulls or lambs or goats.
12 “Who asked you to bring all this
when you come to worship me? Stay out of my temple!
13 Your sacrifices are worthless, and incense is disgusting.
I can’t stand the evil you do on your New Moon Festivals
or on your Sabbaths and other times of worship.
14 I hate your New Moon Festivals and all others as well.
They are a heavy burden I am tired of carrying.
15 “No matter how much you pray, I won’t listen.
You are too violent.
16 Wash yourselves clean!
I am disgusted with your filthy deeds.
Stop doing wrong 17 and learn to live right.
See that justice is done. Defend widows and orphans
and help those in need.”
18 I, the LORD, invite you to come and talk it over.
Your sins are scarlet red,
but they will be whiter than snow or wool.
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2 Thessalonians 1
1 From Paul, Silas, and Timothy.
To the church in Thessalonica, the people of God our Father and of the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 I pray that God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to you and will bless you with peace!
3 My dear friends, we always have good reason to thank God for you, because your faith in God and your love for each other keep growing all the time. 4 That’s why we brag about you to all of God’s churches. We tell them how patient you are and how you keep on having faith, even though you are going through a lot of trouble and suffering.
11 God chose you, and we keep praying that God will make you worthy of being his people. We pray for God’s power to help you do all the good things that you hope to do and that your faith makes you want to do. 12 Then, because God and our Lord Jesus Christ are so kind, you will bring honour to the name of our Lord Jesus, and he will bring honour to you.
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Luke 19
1 Jesus was going through Jericho, 2 where a man named Zacchaeus lived. He was in charge of collecting taxes and was very rich. 3-4 Jesus was heading his way, and Zacchaeus wanted to see what he was like. But Zacchaeus was a short man and could not see over the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree.
5 When Jesus got there, he looked up and said, “Zacchaeus, hurry down! I want to stay with you today.” 6 Zacchaeus hurried down and gladly welcomed Jesus.
7 Everyone who saw this started grumbling, “This man Zacchaeus is a sinner! And Jesus is going home to eat with him.”
8 Later that day Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “I will give half of my property to the poor. And I will now pay back four times as much to everyone I have ever cheated.”
9 Jesus said to Zacchaeus, “Today you and your family have been saved, because you are a true son of Abraham. 10 The Son of Man came to look for and to save people who are lost.”
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[Did you miss last week’s Sunday Services? They can now be found at Worship Archive – October 26th 2025.]
Methodist Church: Hillside Circuit 
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