A warm welcome to our online service. Click on the video window to begin listening. Scripture and relevant links are posted below. Also any Church Announcements may be found at the end of this post.

Isaiah 5:1-7

The song of the vineyard

5 I will sing for the one I love
    a song about his vineyard:
my loved one had a vineyard
    on a fertile hillside.
² He dug it up and cleared it of stones
    and planted it with the choicest vines.
He built a watchtower in it
    and cut out a winepress as well.
Then he looked for a crop of good grapes,
    but it yielded only bad fruit.

³ ‘Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah,
    judge between me and my vineyard.
⁴ What more could have been done for my vineyard
    than I have done for it?
When I looked for good grapes,
    why did it yield only bad?
⁵ Now I will tell you
    what I am going to do to my vineyard:
I will take away its hedge,
    and it will be destroyed;
I will break down its wall,
    and it will be trampled.
⁶ I will make it a wasteland,
    neither pruned nor cultivated,
    and briers and thorns will grow there.
I will command the clouds
    not to rain on it.’

⁷ The vineyard of the Lord Almighty
    is the nation of Israel,
and the people of Judah
    are the vines he delighted in.
And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed;
    for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.

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…to tackle global poverty with World Development & Relief?

Step Up is back – and this year it’s bigger, better, and more fun than ever! Whether you’re into baking, biking, crafting, climbing, or coffee mornings, Step Up is your chance to turn what you love into something that makes a difference.

Host a quiz night, run a bake sale, take on a physical challenge, or dream up your own creative fundraiser – whatever suits you! All ages and abilities are welcome, and there are 12 amazing WDR partners to choose from.

Last year we raised over £25,000 (€29,000) – let’s go even further together in 2025!

It’s your challenge, your way!

Decide your event or challenge, choose your partner, and let us know your plans. We’ll support you with graphics, online fundraising tools and anything else we can do! 

More info or to get in touch, visit irishmethodist.org/world-development or find us on Facebook and Instagram.

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Luke 12:32-40

³² ‘Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. ³³ Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. ³⁴ For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Watchfulness

³⁵ ‘Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, ³⁶ like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. ³⁷ It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will make them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. ³⁸ It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or towards daybreak. ³⁹ But understand this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁰ You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.’

Also reference: Luke 12:20-21 John 3:16

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Ready to Step Up …

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Step Up is back – and this year it’s bigger, better, and more fun than ever! Whether you’re into baking, biking, crafting, climbing, or coffee mornings, Step Up is your chance to turn what you love into something that makes a difference.

Host a quiz night, run a bake sale, take on a physical challenge, or dream up your own creative fundraiser – whatever suits you! All ages and abilities are welcome, and there are 12 amazing WDR partners to choose from.

Last year we raised over £25,000 (€29,000) – let’s go even further together in 2025!

It’s your challenge, your way!

Decide your event or challenge, choose your partner, and let us know your plans. We’ll support you with graphics, online fundraising tools and anything else we can do! 

More info or to get in touch, visit irishmethodist.org/world-development or find us on Facebook and Instagram.

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NOTE: If for some technical reason, the video link for the service is unavailable on the website. You will likely find the most up to date sermon by the Rev Sam Campbell readily available to access and listen to on this telephone line. Simply ring this number 028 9507 2248

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Hosea 11:1-11

God’s love for Israel

11 ‘When Israel was a child, I loved him,
    and out of Egypt I called my son.
² But the more they were called,
    the more they went away from me.^[a]
They sacrificed to the Baals
    and they burned incense to images.
³ It was I who taught Ephraim to walk,
    taking them by the arms;
but they did not realise
    it was I who healed them.
⁴ I led them with cords of human kindness,
    with ties of love.
To them I was like one who lifts
    a little child to the cheek,
    and I bent down to feed them.

⁵ ‘Will they not return to Egypt
    and will not Assyria rule over them
    because they refuse to repent?
⁶ A sword will flash in their cities;
    it will devour their false prophets
    and put an end to their plans.
⁷ My people are determined to turn from me.
    Even though they call me God Most High,
    I will by no means exalt them.

⁸ ‘How can I give you up, Ephraim?
    How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I treat you like Admah?
    How can I make you like Zeboyim?
My heart is changed within me;
    all my compassion is aroused.
⁹ I will not carry out my fierce anger,
    nor will I devastate Ephraim again.
For I am God, and not a man –
    the Holy One among you.
    I will not come against their cities.
¹⁰ They will follow the Lord;
    he will roar like a lion.
When he roars,
    his children will come trembling from the west.
¹¹ They will come from Egypt,
    trembling like sparrows,
    from Assyria, fluttering like doves.
I will settle them in their homes,’
    declares the Lord.

Also reference: Exodus 20:1-5; Deuteronomy 21:18-21

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Conference 2025 – Highlights Video

Below is a video with Rev Alan Wardlow, Elaine Barnett and Rev Dr Heather Morris giving a recap on The Methodist Church in Ireland’s Conference 2025, which took place from the 5-7 June in Thomas Street Portadown. Also viewed HERE

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Ready to Step Up …

…to tackle global poverty with World Development & Relief?

Step Up is back – and this year it’s bigger, better, and more fun than ever! Whether you’re into baking, biking, crafting, climbing, or coffee mornings, Step Up is your chance to turn what you love into something that makes a difference.

Host a quiz night, run a bake sale, take on a physical challenge, or dream up your own creative fundraiser – whatever suits you! All ages and abilities are welcome, and there are 12 amazing WDR partners to choose from.

Last year we raised over £25,000 (€29,000) – let’s go even further together in 2025!

It’s your challenge, your way!

Decide your event or challenge, choose your partner, and let us know your plans. We’ll support you with graphics, online fundraising tools and anything else we can do! 

More info or to get in touch, visit irishmethodist.org/world-development or find us on Facebook and Instagram.

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NOTICE: CHANGE TO THURSDAY WELL-BEING SERVICE

We want to let you know that the Pathway to Well-Being service, which has been offered in our church on Thursdays, will no longer be taking place.

Melanie will not be providing this service from our church going forward. We’re grateful for the time and care she has given, and we wish her well for the future.

Thank you for your understanding.

NOTE: If for some technical reason, the video link for the service is unavailable on the website. You will likely find the most up to date sermon by the Rev Sam Campbell readily available to access and listen to on this telephone line. Simply ring this number 028 9507 2248

A warm welcome to our online service. Click on the video window to begin listening. Scripture and relevant links are posted below. Also any Church Announcements may be found at the end of this post.

Hosea 1:2-10

Hosea’s wife and children

² When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, ‘Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.’ ³ So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

⁴ Then the Lord said to Hosea, ‘Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel. ⁵ In that day I will break Israel’s bow in the Valley of Jezreel.’

⁶ Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the Lordsaid to Hosea, ‘Call her Lo-Ruhamah (which means “not loved”), for I will no longer show love to Israel, that I should at all forgive them. ⁷ Yet I will show love to Judah; and I will save them – not by bow, sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen, but I, the Lord their God, will save them.’

⁸ After she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, Gomer had another son. ⁹ Then the Lord said, ‘Call him Lo-Ammi (which means “not my people”), for you are not my people, and I am not your God.^[a]

¹⁰ ‘Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people”, they will be called “children of the living God”.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Conference 2025 – Highlights Video

Below is a video with Rev Alan Wardlow, Elaine Barnett and Rev Dr Heather Morris giving a recap on The Methodist Church in Ireland’s Conference 2025, which took place from the 5-7 June in Thomas Street Portadown. Also viewed HERE

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Ready to Step Up …

…to tackle global poverty with World Development & Relief?

Step Up is back – and this year it’s bigger, better, and more fun than ever! Whether you’re into baking, biking, crafting, climbing, or coffee mornings, Step Up is your chance to turn what you love into something that makes a difference.

Host a quiz night, run a bake sale, take on a physical challenge, or dream up your own creative fundraiser – whatever suits you! All ages and abilities are welcome, and there are 12 amazing WDR partners to choose from.

Last year we raised over £25,000 (€29,000) – let’s go even further together in 2025!

It’s your challenge, your way!

Decide your event or challenge, choose your partner, and let us know your plans. We’ll support you with graphics, online fundraising tools and anything else we can do! 

More info or to get in touch, visit irishmethodist.org/world-development or find us on Facebook and Instagram.

—–

NOTICE: CHANGE TO THURSDAY WELL-BEING SERVICE

We want to let you know that the Pathway to Well-Being service, which has been offered in our church on Thursdays, will no longer be taking place.

Melanie will not be providing this service from our church going forward. We’re grateful for the time and care she has given, and we wish her well for the future.

Thank you for your understanding.

NOTE: If for some technical reason, the video link for the service is unavailable on the website. You will likely find the most up to date sermon by the Rev Sam Campbell readily available to access and listen to on this telephone line. Simply ring this number 028 9507 2248

A warm welcome to our online service. Click on the video window to begin listening. Scripture and relevant links are posted below. Also any Church Announcements may be found at the end of this post.

Amos 8:1-12

A basket of ripe fruit

8 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: a basket of ripe fruit. ² ‘What do you see, Amos?’ he asked.

‘A basket of ripe fruit,’ I answered.

Then the Lord said to me, ‘The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.

³ ‘In that day,’ declares the Sovereign Lord, ‘the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.^[a] Many, many bodies – flung everywhere! Silence!’

⁴ Hear this, you who trample the needy
    and do away with the poor of the land,

⁵ saying,

‘When will the New Moon be over
    that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
    that we may market wheat?’–
skimping on the measure,
    boosting the price
    and cheating with dishonest scales,
⁶ buying the poor with silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals,
    selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

⁷ The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: ‘I will never forget anything they have done.

⁸ ‘Will not the land tremble for this,
    and all who live in it mourn?
The whole land will rise like the Nile;
    it will be stirred up and then sink
    like the river of Egypt.

⁹ ‘In that day,’ declares the Sovereign Lord,

‘I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.
¹⁰ I will turn your religious festivals into mourning
    and all your singing into weeping.
I will make all of you wear sackcloth
    and shave your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son
    and the end of it like a bitter day.

¹¹ ‘The days are coming,’ declares the Sovereign Lord,
    ‘when I will send a famine through the land –
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
    but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
¹² People will stagger from sea to sea
    and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
    but they will not find it.

Also referenced: Deuteronomy 8:3

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Conference 2025 – Highlights Video

Below is a video with Rev Alan Wardlow, Elaine Barnett and Rev Dr Heather Morris giving a recap on The Methodist Church in Ireland’s Conference 2025, which took place from the 5-7 June in Thomas Street Portadown. Also viewed HERE

—–

Ready to Step Up …

…to tackle global poverty with World Development & Relief?

Step Up is back – and this year it’s bigger, better, and more fun than ever! Whether you’re into baking, biking, crafting, climbing, or coffee mornings, Step Up is your chance to turn what you love into something that makes a difference.

Host a quiz night, run a bake sale, take on a physical challenge, or dream up your own creative fundraiser – whatever suits you! All ages and abilities are welcome, and there are 12 amazing WDR partners to choose from.

Last year we raised over £25,000 (€29,000) – let’s go even further together in 2025!

It’s your challenge, your way!

Decide your event or challenge, choose your partner, and let us know your plans. We’ll support you with graphics, online fundraising tools and anything else we can do! 

More info or to get in touch, visit irishmethodist.org/world-development or find us on Facebook and Instagram.

—–

NOTICE: CHANGE TO THURSDAY WELL-BEING SERVICE

We want to let you know that the Pathway to Well-Being service, which has been offered in our church on Thursdays, will no longer be taking place.

Melanie will not be providing this service from our church going forward. We’re grateful for the time and care she has given, and we wish her well for the future.

Thank you for your understanding.

NOTE: If for some technical reason, the video link for the service is unavailable on the website. You will likely find the most up to date sermon by the Rev Sam Campbell readily available to access and listen to on this telephone line. Simply ring this number 028 9507 2248