Sunday Service from Hillside Circuit for November 8th 2026:
Lectionary Theme: Preparedness and true worship
Occasion: 24th Sunday after Pentecost
Lectionary readings:
Psalm 70
Amos 5: 18-24
1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18
Matthew 25: 1-13
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Songs:
Here are the songs for Sunday morning service. Click or tap on a song to open it in YouTube.
Rejoice the Lord is King!
Author of life divine.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Be known to us.
Let us break bread.
Here, Lord, we take the broken bread.
Lord Jesus Christ, you have come to us.
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 70
1 Save me, LORD God! Hurry and help.
2 Disappoint and confuse all who want to kill me.
Turn away and disgrace all who want to hurt me.
3 Embarrass and shame those who say, “We told you so!”
4 Let your worshippers celebrate
and be glad because of you.
They love your saving power, so let them always say,
“God is wonderful!”
5 I am poor and needy,
but you, the LORD God, care about me.
You are the one who saves me.
Please hurry and help!
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Amos 5
18 You look forward to the day
when the LORD comes to judge.
But you are in for trouble!
It won’t be a time of sunshine; all will be darkness.
19 You will run from a lion, only to meet a bear.
You will escape to your house, rest your hand on the wall,
and be bitten by a snake.
20 The day when the LORD judges will be dark, very dark,
without a ray of light.
21 I, the LORD, hate and despise your religious celebrations
and your times of worship.
22 I won’t accept your offerings or animal sacrifices
not even your very best.
23 No more of your noisy songs!
I won’t listen when you play your harps.
24 But let justice and fairness flow like a river
that never runs dry.
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1 Thessalonians 4
13 My friends, we want you to understand how it will be for those followers who have already died. Then you won’t grieve over them and be like people who don’t have any hope. 14 We believe that Jesus died and was raised to life. We also believe that when God brings Jesus back again, he will bring with him all who had faith in Jesus before they died. 15 Our Lord Jesus told us that when he comes, we won’t go up to meet him ahead of his followers who have already died.
16 With a loud command and with the shout of the chief angel and a blast of God’s trumpet, the Lord will return from heaven. Then those who had faith in Christ before they died will be raised to life. 17 Next, all of us who are still alive will be taken up into the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the sky. From that time on we will all be with the Lord forever. 18 Encourage each other with these words.
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Matthew 25
1 The kingdom of heaven is like what happened one night when ten girls took their oil lamps and went to a wedding to meet the groom . 2 Five of the girls were foolish and five were wise. 3 The foolish ones took their lamps, but no extra oil. 4 The ones who were wise took along extra oil for their lamps.
5 The groom was late arriving, and the girls became drowsy and fell asleep. 6 Then in the middle of the night someone shouted, “Here’s the groom! Come to meet him!”
7 When the girls got up and started getting their lamps ready, 8 the foolish ones said to the others, “Let us have some of your oil! Our lamps are going out.”
9 The girls who were wise answered, “There’s not enough oil for all of us! Go and buy some for yourselves.”
10 While the foolish girls were on their way to get some oil, the groom arrived. The girls who were ready went into the wedding, and the doors were closed. 11 Later the other girls returned and shouted, “Sir, sir! Open the door for us!”
12 But the groom replied, “I don’t even know you!”
13 So, my disciples, always be ready! You don’t know the day or the time when all this will happen.
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[Did you miss last week’s Sunday Service? It can now be found at Worship Archive – November 1st 2026.]
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