From the Archives: Sunday Service from Hillside Circuit for November 6th 2022:
Theme: After all this confusion, God will restore glory
Additional Bible readings: Psalm 98 and Haggai 1: 15b – 2: 9
Sunday Service from Hillside Circuit for November 9th 2025:
Lectionary Theme: Knowing Christ gives us hope and endurance in the face of adversity
Occasion: 22nd Sunday after Pentecost
Lectionary readings:
Psalm 17: 1-9
Job 19: 23-27a
2 Thessalonians 2: 1-5, 13-17
Luke 20: 27-38
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Songs:
Here are the songs for Sunday morning service. Click or tap on a song to open it in YouTube.
There is a Redeemer.
In Christ alone.
The Lord’s my Shepherd.
Be still for the presence of the Lord.
I know that my Redeemer lives.
My hope is built on nothing less.
Author of life divine.
God sent his Son.
Lord Jesus Christ.
What a friend we have in Jesus.
May the Lord, mighty God.
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:
Sermon:
Bible readings:
Psalm 17
1 I am innocent, LORD!
Won’t you listen as I pray and beg for help?
I am honest! Please hear my prayer.
2 Only you can say that I am innocent,
because only your eyes can see the truth.
3 You know my heart,
and even during the night you have tested me
and found me innocent.
I have made up my mind never to tell a lie.
4 I don’t do like others.
I obey your teachings and am not cruel.
5 I have followed you, without ever stumbling.
6 I pray to you, God, because you will help me.
Listen and answer my prayer!
7 Show your wonderful love.
Your mighty arm protects those who run to you
for safety from their enemies.
8 Protect me as you would your very own eyes;
hide me in the shadow of your wings.
9 Don’t let my brutal enemies
attack from all sides and kill me.
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Job 19
23 I wish that my words could be written down
24 or chiselled into rock.
25 I know that my Saviour lives,
and at the end he will stand on this earth.
26 My flesh may be destroyed,
yet from this body I will see God.
27 Yes, I will see him for myself,
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2 Thessalonians 2
1 When our Lord Jesus returns, we will be gathered up to meet him. So I ask you, my friends, 2 not to be easily upset or disturbed by people who claim that the Lord has already come. They may say that they heard this directly from the Holy Spirit, or from someone else, or even that they read it in one of our letters. 3 But don’t be fooled! People will rebel against God. Then before the Lord returns, the wicked one who is doomed to be destroyed will appear. 4 He will brag and oppose everything that is holy or sacred. He will even sit in God’s temple and claim to be God. 5 Don’t you remember that I told you this while I was still with you?
13 My friends, the Lord loves you, and it is only natural for us to thank God for you. God chose you to be the first ones to be saved. His Spirit made you holy, and you put your faith in the truth. 14 God used our preaching as his way of inviting you to share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15 My friends, that’s why you must remain faithful and follow closely what we taught you in person and by our letters.
16 God our Father loves us. He is kind and has given us eternal comfort and a wonderful hope. We pray that our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father 17 will encourage you and help you always to do and say the right thing.
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Luke 20
27 The Sadducees did not believe that people would rise to life after death. So some of them came to Jesus 28 and said:
Teacher, Moses wrote that if a married man dies and has no children, his brother should marry the widow. Their first son would then be thought of as the son of the dead brother.
29 There were once seven brothers. The first one married, but died without having any children. 30 The second one married his brother’s widow, and he also died without having any children. 31 The same thing happened to the third one. Finally, all seven brothers married that woman and died without having any children. 32 At last the woman died. 33 When God raises people from death, whose wife will this woman be? All seven brothers had married her.
34 Jesus answered:
The people in this world get married. 35 But in the future world no one who is worthy to rise from death will either marry 36 or die. They will be like the angels and will be God’s children, because they have been raised to life.
37 In the story about the burning bush, Moses clearly shows that people will live again. He said, “The Lord is the God worshipped by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” 38 So the Lord isn’t the God of the dead, but of the living. This means that everyone is alive as far as God is concerned.
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Haggai 1 and 2
1: 15 And the work began on the twenty-fourth day of that same month.
2: 1-2 On the twenty-first day of the next month, the LORD told Haggai the prophet to speak this message to Governor Zerubbabel, High Priest Joshua, and everyone else:
3 Does anyone remember how glorious this temple used to be? Now it looks like nothing. 4 But cheer up! Because I, the LORD All-Powerful, will be here to help you with the work, 5 just as I promised your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt. Don’t worry. My Spirit is right here with you.
6 Soon I will again shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. 7 I will shake the nations, and their treasures will be brought here. Then the brightness of my glory will fill this temple. 8 All silver and gold belong to me, 9 and I promise that this new temple will be more glorious than the first one. I will also bless this city with peace.
[Did you miss last week’s Sunday Services? They can now be found at Worship Archive – November 2nd 2025.]
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