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Sunday, November 8Orchard Hill Church

Worship Service November 8, 2026 - Orchard Hill Church

Jesus invites the weary to take his yoke, and his yoke turns out to be two things: love God with everything you are, and love your neighbor as yourself. The sermon sets that against the heavy lists of rules the rabbis laid on people and against a woman in South Africa who forgave the man who killed her family.

What was preached

• Matthew 11:28–30
• Matthew 22:36–40
• Mark 12:28–34
• Deuteronomy 6:4–5
• Romans 12:1–2
• Leviticus 19:18
• Matthew 7:12
• 1 John 4:20–21
• Matthew 25:34–40
• Matthew 5:43–48

• Why does Jesus describe his yoke as easy when a yoke is a picture of submission and work?
• What does it mean that all the law and the prophets hang on loving God and loving neighbor?
• Why does a command to love enemies come out of the mouth of a woman whose family was murdered?

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Earlier sermons

1. Sunday, November 1

   I Am the Resurrection and the Life

   Jesus waits two days while Lazarus dies, then weeps at the tomb and calls him out, and the sermon holds that up as the reason a grieving church can trust him: he loves them, he hates what sin has done, and he has the authority to do something about it.

2. Sunday, October 25

   Seek and Save the Lost: The Story of Zacchaeus

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3. Sunday, October 25

   The Son of Man Came to Seek and Save the Lost

   Jesus passes through Jericho on his way to the cross and stops for Zacchius, the one man in town nobody expected God to want, and says salvation has come to his house today. The sermon holds that encounter up as the whole mission of Jesus, and asks whether we who were found can still be people who seek.

4. Sunday, October 11

   Worship Service October 11, 2026 - Orchard Hill Church

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5. Sunday, August 30

   The Dust of the Rabbi: Be Careful Who You're Following

   Jesus says a student becomes like their teacher, so the sermon asks who you are actually walking behind, and whether your life is being covered in his dust or someone else's.