Character References: David and Goliath
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Worship Leaders: Ryan Miller and Melanie Penner
Speaker: Peter Haresnape
Song Leader: Bob Loewen
Pianist: Mark Andrews
Ushers: Doreen Martens and Jeff Taylor
Tech Team (In-Person / Online): Brad Lepp and Ben Thiessen
Activity Period: Laura Giesbrecht
Coffee: Peter and Denise Voth
Children’s Story: Doreen Martens
Gathering Hymns
VT 421 A Mighty Fortress is Our God
VT 716 God of Grace and God of Glory
Welcome
Land acknowledgment
Announcements
Call to worship
VT 853
VT 159 Kwake Yesu nasimama (Here on Christ the Rock I will Stand)
Giving with gratitude
Children’s time
Congregational Prayer
VT 712 Beauty for Brokenness
Scripture – 1 Samuel 17:4-11; 32-40
Sermon
VT 409 For We Are Strangers No More
Benediction
Scripture
1 Samuel 17:4-11
4 A champion named Goliath from Gath came out from the Philistine camp. He was more than nine feet tall. 5 He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore bronze scale-armor weighing one hundred twenty-five pounds. 6 He had bronze plates on his shins, and a bronze scimitar hung on his back. 7 His spear shaft was as strong as the bar on a weaver’s loom, and its iron head weighed fifteen pounds. His shield-bearer walked in front of him.
8 He stopped and shouted to the Israelite troops, “Why have you come and taken up battle formations? I am the Philistine champion, and you are Saul’s servants. Isn’t that right? Select one of your men, and let him come down against me. 9 If he is able to fight me and kill me, then we will become your slaves, but if I overcome him and kill him, then you will become our slaves and you will serve us. 10 I insult Israel’s troops today!” The Philistine continued, “Give me an opponent, and we’ll fight!” 11 When Saul and all Israel heard what the Philistine said, they were distressed and terrified.
1 Samuel 17:32-40
32 “Don’t let anyone lose courage because of this Philistine!” David told Saul. “I, your servant, will go out and fight him!”
33 “You can’t go out and fight this Philistine,” Saul answered David. “You are still a boy. But he’s been a warrior since he was a boy!”
34 “Your servant has kept his father’s sheep,” David replied to Saul, “and if ever a lion or a bear came and carried off one of the flock, 35 I would go after it, strike it, and rescue the animal from its mouth. If it turned on me, I would grab it at its jaw, strike it, and kill it. 36 Your servant has fought both lions and bears. This uncircumcised Philistine will be just like one of them because he has insulted the army of the living God.
37 “The Lord,” David added, “who rescued me from the power of both lions and bears, will rescue me from the power of this Philistine.”
“Go!” Saul replied to David. “And may the Lord be with you!”
38 Then Saul dressed David in his own gear, putting a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. 39 David strapped his sword on over the armor, but he couldn’t walk around well because he’d never tried it before. “I can’t walk in this,” David told Saul, “because I’ve never tried it before.” So he took them off. 40 He then grabbed his staff and chose five smooth stones from the streambed. He put them in the pocket of his shepherd’s bag and with sling in hand went out to the Philistine.