[Did you miss last Sunday’s services? They can still be found at Worship Archive – October 18th 2020.]
Sunday Services from Connexion for October 25th 2020:
Sunday Services from Hillside Circuit for October 25th 2020:
Theme: Love of God and neighbour is supreme
Occasion: Last Sunday after Pentecost
Psalm 90
Old Testament: Deuteronomy 34: 1-12
Letter: 1 Thessalonians 2: 1-8
New Testament: Matthew 22: 34-46
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Songs:
Here are the songs for Sunday morning service. Click or tap on a song to open it in YouTube or go to the Songs for worship webpage to find them embedded.
Beauty for Brokenness (God of the Poor).
You are my all in all.
Immortal, Invisible.
O God our help in ages past.
Prayers:
You can listen and join in with prayers from the Methodist Service Book, they can be found at the Prayers for worship webpage.
Sermons:
Bible readings:
Psalm 90
1 Our LORD, in all generations you have been our home.
2 You have always been God
long before the birth of the mountains,
even before you created the earth and the world.
3 At your command we die and turn back to dust,
4 but a thousand years mean nothing to you!
They are merely a day gone by
or a few hours in the night.
5 You bring our lives to an end just like a dream.
We are merely tender grass
6 that sprouts and grows in the morning,
but dries up by evening.
7 Your furious anger frightens and destroys us,
8 and you know all of our sins,
even those we do in secret.
9 Your anger is a burden each day we live,
then life ends like a sigh.
10 We can expect seventy years,
or maybe eighty, if we are healthy,
but even our best years bring trouble and sorrow.
Suddenly our time is up, and we disappear.
11 No one knows the full power of your furious anger,
but it is as great as the fear that we owe to you.
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!
Deuteronomy 34
1 Sometime later, Moses left the lowlands of Moab. He went up Mount Pisgah to the peak of Mount Nebo, which is across the Jordan River from Jericho. The LORD showed him all the land as far north as Gilead and the town of Dan. 2 He let Moses see the territories that would soon belong to the tribes of Naphtali, Ephraim, Manasseh, and Judah, as far west as the Mediterranean Sea. 3 The LORD also showed him the land in the south, from the valley near the town of Jericho, known as The City of Palm Trees, down to the town of Zoar.
4 The LORD said, “Moses, this is the land I was talking about when I solemnly promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that I would give land to their descendants. I have let you see it, but you will not cross the Jordan and go in.”
5 And so, Moses the LORD’S servant died there in Moab, just as the LORD had said. 6 The LORD buried him in a valley near the town of Beth-Peor, but even today no one knows exactly where. 7 Moses was a hundred twenty years old when he died, yet his eyesight was still good, and his body was strong.
8 The people of Israel stayed in the lowlands of Moab, where they mourned and grieved thirty days for Moses, as was their custom.
9 Before Moses died, he had placed his hands on Joshua, and the LORD had given Joshua wisdom. The Israelites paid attention to what Joshua said and obeyed the commands that the LORD had given Moses.
10 There has never again been a prophet in Israel like Moses. The LORD spoke face to face with him 11 and sent him to perform powerful miracles in the presence of the king of Egypt and his entire nation. 12 No one else has ever had the power to do such great things as Moses did for everyone to see.
1 Thessalonians 2
1 My friends, you know that our time with you wasn’t wasted. 2 As you remember, we had been mistreated and insulted at Philippi. But God gave us the courage to tell you the good news about him, even though many people caused us trouble. 3 We didn’t have any hidden motives when we won you over, and we didn’t try to fool or trick anyone. 4 God was pleased to trust us with his message. We didn’t speak to please people, but to please God who knows our motives.
5 You also know that we didn’t try to flatter anyone. God himself knows that what we did wasn’t a cover-up for greed. 6 We were not trying to get you or anyone else to praise us. 7 But as apostles, we could have demanded help from you. After all, Christ is the one who sent us. We chose to be like children or like a mother nursing her baby. 8 We cared so much for you, and you became so dear to us, that we were willing to give our lives for you when we gave you God’s message.
Matthew 22
34 After Jesus had made the Sadducees look foolish, the Pharisees heard about it and got together. 35 One of them was an expert in the Jewish Law. So he tried to test Jesus by asking, 36 “Teacher, what is the most important commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus answered:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. 38 This is the first and most important commandment. 39 The second most important commandment is like this one. And it is, “Love others as much as you love yourself.” 40 All the Law of Moses and the Books of the Prophets are based on these two commandments.
41 While the Pharisees were still there, Jesus asked them, 42 “What do you think about the Messiah? Whose family will he come from?”
They answered, “He will be a son of King David.”
43 Jesus replied, “How then could the Spirit lead David to call the Messiah his Lord? David said,
44 ‘The Lord said to my Lord:
Sit at my right side
until I make your enemies into a footstool for you.’
45 If David called the Messiah his Lord, how can the Messiah be a son of King David?” 46 No one was able to give Jesus an answer, and from that day on, no one dared ask him any more questions.
Text version of message for October 25th 2020 in Shona, with Mrs Angela Penduka:
Ndokukwazisayi mese kumativi mana enyika muzita ra Baba nereMwana Komana nere Mweya Mtsvene Amen
ndini Mai Penduka ndokupai Shoko ranhasi mururimi rwe chikaranga
Zviverengwa zvanhasi:
Deutronomy 34 vs 1- 12
1 Thessaloniana 2 vs 1- 8
Mateo 22 vs 34- 46
Call to worship Pisarema 90
Nhasi tririkufamba ne dingindira rinoti;
KUDA MWARI NOMUVAKIDZANI ZVAKAKOSHESESESA (Love of God And Neighbour is Supreme)
Ndinokuridzira kuti tiverenge Magwaro anhasi tisati tateyerera shoko
Rudo rwa Mwari ndiwo musimboti we rutendo runo batanidza hukama ho munhu na Mwari.saizvozvo Mwari vanotiraira kuti tivade no Moyo yedu yose no Mweya yedu yese ne simba redu rose Deute; 5 vs 6.
.Apo mududziri womurairo avunza Jesu kuti ndowupi murairo mukuru pamirairo yose, Jesu vano shandura voti Kuda Mwari no Moyo wose ne Mweya wose ne fungwa dzose ndo murairo wokutanga uchitevegwa no murairo wokuti ida wokwako se zvaunozvida iwe. Hama ne shamwari inzwai kukosha ko rudo ndirwo runobatanidza imwe mirairo yese. Kana tabata iyi mirairo imwe yese inenge yava mutsererende.Nyaya yekuti mirairo yakakosha ndeipi yanga iri nyaya yainetsa panguva yacho.Vamwe vaiti murairo weku chekeredzwa,vamwe voti we Sabata vamwe we zvipiriso ndiyo yaikosha.Saka murume uyu arikubvunza Jesu kuti pave nekusakadzikana.
Naizvozvo nhasi tiri kukuridzigwa kuti rudo gwa Mwari ngakuyerere kubva kuna Mwari nemauri ruchienda kumuvakidzani wako
Kana wavanago ugu Rudo uno zomunamata mu Mweya no muzvokwadi,unomushandira nyangwe zvakaoma .Pana varume vaviri vari muma gwaro anhasi vakava nzirayoku gachira nokupfuvudza rudo gwa Mwari kuna vamwe. Varume ava ndi Mosisi na Pauro.
Mosisi akatungamirira vana va Israeri kubva muhutapwa ku Egipita.Zvazisiri nyore,nguva zhinji kwaiva neku nyunyuta nokusagutsikana .Asi Mosesi akashinga achiziba wakanga amutuma.Pakupedzisira kwake akanzi Mosese muranda wa Jehova Deut. 34 vs 5.hana kushevedzwa ne zvakaipa zvaakanga amboita kufanana nekuponda mu Gipita kana kunzi Uya murume akati achitumwa na Mwari akapa zvikonzero. Anonzi Mosesi Muranda wa Jehova Deutrenomy 34 vs 5.
Saizvozvo Pauro anoziva kuti nyangwe zvikanetsa hasiri kufambisa vangeri kufadza munhu asi Jehova vanoidza Mwoyo yedu.Akaziva kuti kuda Jehova kuparidzira vanhu vasununguke muhutapwa hwe chivi.
Naizvozvo hama panguva yatiri kurarama yakazara nechivi nokusagadzikana tinofanira kuva chiedza chenyika .Tinofanira kugashira noku pfuvudzira rudo Rwa Mwari kuna vamwe. Nyika ngayivone kunaka kwa Mwari nemauri. Rudo haruzi rokungotaura asi ngunovonekwa mumabasa akanaka.Apa hati tauri rudo romukomana nomusikana nokuti ugo nguva zhinji rune zvivimbiso zvenhema “ Iwe ndichakufira,kana handirari” Wonzwa madeko ndakakurota ,kana ndichakuvona kana magwana kukasanaya” Wo unorota wakasvinura ,wavakutya kuniwa?
Apa tiri kutaura rudo rwama zvirokwazvo . Rudo rwaMwari rokupira Mwanakomana wavo umwe chete kuti wose anotenda kwa ari a safe avenohupenyu husingaperi..
Kana uchimuda Jehova mude nemoyo wako wese nomweya wakho wese nefungwa dzako dzose nokuti kuda Jehova ndomurairo wakakosha unobatanidza mirairo yese.Rudo ugu ngaguve ngunobatika nokuzvipira .Ngaguve guno fadza Mwari chete kuda kukudziwa NEVANHU KANA KUVONEREGWA.Ivavo vaunoti hava shandiki navo shanda navo fudza idzodzo dzino kava.Tsvaka chinoita kuti dzi fohle mudanga kana kutunga dzimwe.Zvimwe ndove yawandisa,zvimwe hawusi kudzifudzira kunamafuro manyoro.Zvitarise iwe mufudzi usati wapa mhaka kuhwayi dzaJehova Ida Jehova nezvose zvauri zvivonekwe nemabasa akanaka
Muna Mosesi maiva nemabasa akawanda aiva muprophet ,mu tongi ,mutungamiriri nomu prista; hongu vakavapho vamwe vakabata iwawa mabasa asi Mosesi ayiva nyanzwi panezvose.Ayiva nohukama na Mwari vakamutora kuti nyangwe usingasviki kunyika yechipikirwa ndichakuratidza.Hapana akarivona guva rake .
Postori Pauro akatanga achirwisa chi Kristu asi pakupedzisira akava umwe wava Postori vakuru. Taverenga achipupura kuzvipira kuti aparidzire vanhu vanzwe vangeri nyangwe zvakaoma.
Hama yangu kuda Jehova nomuvakidzani wakho ndozvakakosha saka vupenyu hwako ngahukoshese iyoyi mithemo Mwari ari mubatsiri wedu.Hatiratidze kuti tinomuda Mwari tinoda muvakidzani kuburikidza ne ma.basa akanaka atinoita
Hatinamatei
Tinokutendayi Jehova neshoko renyu rinoti fungidza kuti imwi muri Mwari vanotida.Imwi munoda wose anovuya kwamuri.Makatida Jehova mukati sarudza kuti tive vana venyu kuburikidza no mwana wenyu Jesu Kristu akatifira pamuchijikwa.Tigonesi Jehova kuti tikudei ne Moyo yedu yese ne zvose zvatiri,titaridze uru rudo kunavavakidzani vedu.Tikunamatei muzvokwadi
Shoko renyu inhaka yedu,munamato wangu Jehova kuti shoko renyu tirinzwisise tive vaiti veshoko mabasa edu ataridze rudo rwenyu kunyika yatinorarama izere nezvitadzo nemhirizhonga. ivai nesu patiri tose pa nzvimbo dzakasiyana. Tinonamata muzita Ra Jesu Kristu mununuri wedu. Nyasha dza Ishe wedu Jesu Kristu Rudo gwa Baba nokuwadzana ko Mweya Mtsvene zvivenesu zvino nokusingaperi Amen
Text version of message for October 25th 2020 in Shona, with Mr Wilfred Manyiwa:
Theme: Love of God and neighbour is Supreme.
Bible Readings
Deuteronomy: 34 vs 1-12
1 Thessalonians 2 vs 1-8
Matthew 22 vs 34-46
Kwaziso yangu kusangano rakasarudza naMwari,sokureva
Kwa Mupositori Pauro kutsamba yake kuva Thesaronika apo achikurudzira vanhu kuti varambe vakaisa rutendo rwavo muna Kristu Jesu nokuti ndiye muvambi ne muponisi wekutenda kwedu.
Bhuku yataverenga inova bhuku yemutemo iri kuburitsa pachena magariro akanga achiitwa naMozisi kunyange akanga ari iye mutungamiri asi aigona kugarisana nevamwe pamwe nekuteerera Mwari.
Mozisi paakanga akura zvikuru Jehovha vanoona zvakakodzera kuti achizorora ,asi haizo zorora asina kuona nyika yechipikirwa.Jehovha vanoudza Mozisi kuti ndave kukuratidza nyika yamadzitateguru ako asi iwe hauzopindi munyika iyoyo.
Hama vadikanwi hapana chinhu chinorwadza sekushandira pasina, makore mazhinji Mozisi achishingaira,nekutambudzwa ne va Isirayeli asi nokuti akanga ane rudo mukati mehana yake akatungamira boka iri kusvika avaratidza nyika yechipikirwa .
Rega nditaure neimwe hama muzuva ranhasi nokuti vamwe vedu tikaziva kuti hapachina chedu tinotanga kuita humbimbindoga ne hutsinye, izvozvi vamwe hatitaudzane nevavakidzani vedu,kana nedzimwe hama dzedu , iwe tendeukira kuna Jehovah pachine mukana nokuti husiku hunouya ,ngatinamatei Mwari uyu mumweya nemuzvokwadi.
Vazhinji tichafanana naMozisi kuti tichaziva nezve kudenga asi hatisvikiko nekuda kwehutsinye hwatinaho, vamwe takafanana nesign post inongoratidza direction asi iyo isingasviki panzvimbo yacho.
Dai Mwari vatibatsira taramba mweya wevaFarisi vanoziva mutemo zvakanyanya asi vasina hanya nawo ndokusaka manzwa Jesu achivabvunza kuti mukuziva kwenyu imi Kristu mwanakomana wani?
Vadikanwi kumuziva Jesu uyu ndihwo hupenyu ,mumwe muimbi obva ati kana mava wangu Jesu ndakwana nezvinhu zvose .
Ngatisapedza nguva tichifunga zvisina maturo asi tifunge kuti pakuguma kwenguva ndichazopindawo here muhumambo kana kuti ndichafanana naMozisi anoratidzwa nyika yechipikirwa asi iye operera mumupata ,ngatinamatirei nyasha dzedenga dzitirinde misi yose kuti shoko ravo Mwari rigogara muhana dzedu mazuva ose ehupenyu hwedu.
Mbiri ngaive kuna Baba,Mwanakomana naMweyamutsvene Amen
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