Worship Leader: Bob Loewen
Speaker: Lori Unger
Music: Geoff and Audrey Wichert
Technical Team: Alison Li/ Nathaniel Penner
Ushers: Harold and Tobi Thiessen
Coffee Hour Hosts: Carol and David Ringer
Activity Period: Laura Giesbrecht
Gathering Hymns:
VT # 42 Could It Be That God Is Singing
VT # 536 I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
Welcome & Land Acknowledgement
Call to Worship and Opening Prayer
Hymn: VT # 588 We Walk by Faith
Announcements
Hymn of the Month: VT # 633 – Total Praise
Giving with Gratitude
Music – Audrey Wichert
Children’s Time
Hymn: VT# 614 Lord, Have Mercy
Congregational Prayer
Scripture Reading: Psalm 55
Hymn: VT# 685 O Lord, Hear My Prayer
Sermon
Hymn: VT # 616 Cast Thy Burden upon the Lord
Benediction
Closing Music
Scripture Reading
Psalm 55
God, listen to my prayer;
don’t avoid my request!
2 Pay attention! Answer me!
I can’t sit still while complaining.
I’m beside myself
3 over the enemy’s noise,
at the wicked person’s racket,
because they bring disaster on me
and harass me furiously.
4 My heart pounds in my chest
because death’s terrors have reached me.
5 Fear and trembling have come upon me;
I’m shaking all over.
6 I say to myself,
I wish I had wings like a dove!
I’d fly away and rest.
7 I’d run so far away!
I’d live in the desert. Selah
8 I’d hurry to my hideout,
far from the rushing wind and storm.
9 Baffle them, my Lord!
Confuse their language
because I see violence and conflict in the city.
10 Day and night they make their rounds on its walls,
and evil and misery live inside it.
11 Disaster lives inside it;
oppression and fraud never leave the town square.
12 It’s not an enemy that is insulting me—
I could handle that.
It’s not someone who hates me
who is exalted over me—
I could hide from them.
13 No. It’s you, my equal,
my close companion, my good friend!
14 It was so pleasant when
together we entered God’s house with the crowd.
15 Let death devastate my enemies;
let them go to the grave alive
because evil lives with them—
even inside them!
16 But I call out to God,
and the Lord will rescue me.
17 At evening, morning, and midday
I complain and moan
so that God will hear my voice.
18 He saves me, unharmed, from my struggle,
though there are many who are out to get me.
19 God, who is enthroned from ancient days,
will hear and humble them Selah
because they don’t change
and they don’t worship God.
20 My friend attacked his allies,
breaking his covenant.
21 Though his talk is smoother than butter,
war is in his heart;
though his words are more silky than oil,
they are really drawn swords:
22 “Cast your burden on the Lord—
he will support you!
God will never let the righteous be shaken!”
23 But you, God, bring the wicked
down to the deepest pit.
Let bloodthirsty and treacherous people
not live out even half their days.
But me? I trust in you!
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