Character References: Job
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Worship Leader: Peter Haresnape
Speaker: Alison Li
Song Leader: Geoff Wichert
Pianist: Audrey Wichert
Ushers: Christina Reimer/ Rachel Schmidt
Tech Team (In-Person / Online): Dennis Giesbrecht/ Jonah Thiessen
Coffee: Tobi and Harold Thiessen
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Gathering Songs
#278 A Voice was Heard in Ramah
#276 Solemn Stillness, Weary Streets
Welcome
Call to Worship
Land Acknowledgement
Hymn # 600 O Thou, in Whose Presence
Scripture – Job 2:11-13
Children’s time – Doreen Martens
Giving with Gratitude
Congregational Prayer
Hymn # 537 – Lord, You Sometimes Speak
Sermon – Alison Li
Hymn # 68 – There’s No One in This World Like Jesus
Benediction
Scripture
Job 2:11-13
11 When Job’s three friends heard about all this disaster that had happened to him, they came, each one from his home—Eliphaz from Teman, Bildad from Shuah, and Zophar from Naamah. They agreed to come so they could console and comfort him. 12 When they looked up from a distance and didn’t recognize him, they wept loudly. Each one tore his garment and scattered dust above his head toward the sky. 13 They sat with Job on the ground seven days and seven nights, not speaking a word to him, for they saw that he was in excruciating pain.
Job 38:1-7
38 Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind:
2 Who is this darkening counsel with words lacking knowledge?
3 Prepare yourself like a man; I will interrogate you, and you will respond to me.
4 Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundations? Tell me if you know.
5 Who set its measurements? Surely you know. Who stretched a measuring tape on it?
6 On what were its footings sunk; who laid its cornerstone,
7 while the morning stars sang in unison and all the divine beings shouted?
Job 38:34-41
34 Can you issue an order to the clouds so their abundant waters cover you?
35 Can you send lightning so that it goes and then says to you, “I’m here”?
36 Who put wisdom in remote places, or who gave understanding to a rooster?
37 Who is wise enough to count the clouds, and who can tilt heaven’s water containers
38 so that dust becomes mud and clods of dirt adhere?
39 Can you hunt prey for the lion or fill the cravings of lion cubs?
40 They lie in their den, lie in ambush in their lair.
41 Who provides food for the raven when its young cry to God, move about without food?