Sunday Service from Hillside Circuit for October 13th 2024:
Lectionary Theme: Approach the throne of God with humility
Occasion: 21st Sunday after Pentecost
Lectionary readings:
Psalm 90: 12-17
Amos 5: 6-7, 10-15
Hebrews 4: 12-16
Mark 10: 17-31
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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 people that on earth.
There is a Redeemer.
All heaven declares.
To be in your presence.
Now thank we all our God.
Alleluia Sing to Jesus.
This is my body.
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:
Sermon:
Bible readings:
Psalm 90
12 Teach us to use wisely all the time we have.
13 Help us, LORD! Don’t wait! Pity your servants.
14 When morning comes,
let your love satisfy all our needs.
Then we can celebrate
and be glad for what time we have left.
15 Make us happy for as long
as you caused us trouble and sorrow.
16 Do wonderful things for us, your servants,
and show your mighty power to our children.
17 Our LORD and our God, treat us with kindness
and let all go well for us.
Please let all go well!
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Amos 5
6 Turn back to the LORD, you descendants of Joseph,
and you will live.
If you don’t, the LORD will attack like fire.
Bethel will burn to the ground, and no one can save it.
7 You people are doomed! You twist the truth
and stomp on justice.
10 You people hate judges and honest witnesses;
11 you abuse the poor and demand heavy taxes from them.
You have built expensive homes, but you won’t enjoy them;
you have planted vineyards, but you will get no wine.
12 I am the LORD, and I know your terrible sins.
You cheat honest people and take bribes;
you rob the poor of justice.
13 Times are so evil that anyone with good sense
will keep quiet.
14 If you really want to live, you must stop doing wrong
and start doing right.
I, the LORD God All-Powerful, will then be on your side,
just as you claim I am.
15 Choose good instead of evil! See that justice is done.
Maybe I, the LORD All-Powerful,
will be kind to what’s left of your people.
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Hebrews 4
12 What God has said isn’t only alive and active! It is sharper than any double-edged sword. His word can cut through our spirits and souls and through our joints and marrow, until it discovers the desires and thoughts of our hearts. 13 Nothing is hidden from God! He sees through everything, and we will have to tell him the truth.
14 We have a great high priest, who has gone into heaven, and he is Jesus the Son of God. That is why we must hold on to what we have said about him. 15 Jesus understands every weakness of ours, because he was tempted in every way that we are. But he did not sin! 16 So whenever we are in need, we should come bravely before the throne of our merciful God. There we will be treated with undeserved kindness, and we will find help.
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Mark 10
17 As Jesus was walking down a road, a man ran up to him. He knelt down, and asked, “Good teacher, what can I do to have eternal life?”
18 Jesus replied, “Why do you call me good? Only God is good. 19 You know the commandments. ‘Do not murder. Be faithful in marriage. Do not steal. Do not tell lies about others. Do not cheat. Respect your father and mother.’ “
20 The man answered, “Teacher, I have obeyed all these commandments since I was a young man.”
21 Jesus looked closely at the man. He liked him and said, “There’s one thing you still need to do. Go sell everything you own. Give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come with me.”
22 When the man heard Jesus say this, he went away gloomy and sad because he was very rich.
23 Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “It’s hard for rich people to get into God’s kingdom!” 24 The disciples were shocked to hear this. So Jesus told them again, “It’s terribly hard to get into God’s kingdom! 25 In fact, it’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into God’s kingdom.”
26 Jesus’ disciples were even more amazed. They asked each other, “How can anyone ever be saved?”
27 Jesus looked at them and said, “There are some things that people cannot do, but God can do anything.”
28 Peter replied, “Remember, we left everything to be your followers!”
29 Jesus told him:
You can be sure that anyone who gives up home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or land for me and for the good news 30 will be rewarded. In this world they will be given a hundred times as many houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and pieces of land, though they will also be mistreated. And in the world to come, they will have eternal life. 31 But many who are now first will be last, and many who are now last will be first.
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[Did you miss last week’s Sunday Services? They can now be found at Worship Archive – October 6th 2024.]
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