Worship Archive – September 21st 2025

Sunday Service from Hillside Circuit for September 21st 2025:

Lectionary Theme: Praying for all is God’s desire for salvation

Occasion: 15th Sunday after Pentecost

Lectionary readings:
Psalm 113
Amos 8: 4-7
1 Timothy 2: 1-7
Luke 16: 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.

Amazing grace.
He is exalted.
Great is the darkness.
We are walking.
Who is there like You.
Give thanks.
Rock of Ages.
A charge to keep.
Shalom to you.

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 audio Children’s Address was received today.]

Sermon:

[No audio Message was received today.]

Bible readings:

Psalm 113

1 Shout praises to the LORD!
Everyone who serves him, come and praise his name.

2 Let the name of the LORD be praised now and forever.
3 From dawn until sunset
the name of the LORD deserves to be praised.
4 The LORD is far above all of the nations;
he is more glorious than the heavens.

5 No one can compare with the LORD our God.
His throne is high above,
6 and he looks down to see the heavens and the earth.
7 God lifts the poor and needy from dust and ashes,
8 and he lets them take part in ruling his people.
9 When a wife has no children,
he blesses her with some, and she is happy.
Shout praises to the LORD!

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Amos 8

4 You people crush those in need and wipe out the poor.
5 You say to yourselves, “How much longer before the end
of the New Moon Festival?
When will the Sabbath be over?
Our wheat is ready, and we want to sell it now.
We can’t wait to cheat
and charge high prices for the grain we sell.
We will use dishonest scales 6 and mix dust in the grain.
Those who are needy and poor don’t have any money.
We will make them our slaves
for the price of a pair of sandals.”

7 I, the LORD, won’t forget any of this,
though you take great pride in your ancestor Jacob.

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1 Timothy 2

1 First of all, I ask you to pray for everyone. Ask God to help and bless them all, and tell God how thankful you are for each of them. 2 Pray for kings and others in power, so that we may live quiet and peaceful lives as we worship and honour God. 3 This kind of prayer is good, and it pleases God our Saviour. 4 God wants everyone to be saved and to know the whole truth, which is,

5 There is only one God,
and Christ Jesus is the only one
who can bring us to God.
Jesus was truly human,
and he gave himself to rescue all of us.
6 God showed us this at the right time.

7 This is why God chose me to be a preacher and an apostle of the good news. I am telling the truth. I am not lying. God sent me to teach the Gentiles about faith and truth.

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Luke 16

1 Jesus said to his disciples:
A rich man once had a manager to take care of his business. But he was told that his manager was wasting money. 2 So the rich man called him in and said, “What is this I hear about you? Tell me what you have done! You are no longer going to work for me.”
3 The manager said to himself, “What shall I do now that my master is going to fire me? I can’t dig ditches, and I’m ashamed to beg. 4 I know what I’ll do, so that people will welcome me into their homes after I’ve lost my job.”
5 Then one by one he called in the people who were in debt to his master. He asked the first one, “How much do you owe my master?”
6 “A hundred barrels of olive oil,” the man answered.
So the manager said, “Take your bill and sit down and quickly write ‘fifty’.”
7 The manager asked someone else who was in debt to his master, “How much do you owe?”
“A thousand bushels of wheat,” the man replied.
The manager said, “Take your bill and write ‘eight hundred’.”
8 The master praised his dishonest manager for looking out for himself so well. That’s how it is! The people of this world look out for themselves better than the people who belong to the light.
9 My disciples, I tell you to use wicked wealth to make friends for yourselves. Then when it is gone, you will be welcomed into an eternal home. 10 Anyone who can be trusted in little matters can also be trusted in important matters. But anyone who is dishonest in little matters will be dishonest in important matters. 11 If you cannot be trusted with this wicked wealth, who will trust you with true wealth? 12 And if you cannot be trusted with what belongs to someone else, who will give you something that will be your own? 13 You cannot be the slave of two masters. You will like one more than the other or be more loyal to one than to the other. You cannot serve God and money.

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[Did you miss last week’s Sunday Services? They can now be found at Worship Archive – September 14th 2025.]