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Worship Leader: Mauricio Palacio
Speaker: Tim Schmucker
Song Leader: Geoff Wichert
Pianist: Audrey Wichert
Ushers: Tobi and Harold Thiessen
Tech Team (In-Person / Online): Dennis Giesbrecht/ Jonah Thiessen
Coffee: Jana and Brad Lepp
Activity Period: Laura Giesbrecht and Lara Munro
Gathering Hymns
#705: For the Healing of the Nations
#591: When I Can’t Find My Way
Welcome and land acknowledgement
Call to Worship – based on Psalm 19
All: May the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be pleasing to you, O God.
One: We speak because you spoke first, bringing voice to the brightness of the sun and singing the airy darkness of the sky. You spoke this earth from end to end, and speaking must have given you pleasure, for you said, “It was good.”
All: May the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be pleasing to you, O God.
One: Year after year you have poured forth speech: passing stories and statutes down through hands and lips. From you we learned to speak, and speaking, we spoke to you— singing songs of consolation that would become your psalms to us; writing poems our children’s children would hear as the voice of God.
All: May the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be pleasing to you, O God.
One: Your law, O Lord, is perfect. Your Word is the one that endures. We seek the grammar of your justice in the words that you spoke before. Speak here now; speak here once more.
All: And may the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be pleasing to you, O God.
Amen.
#616: Cast Thy Burden Upon the Lord
Statement of Faith – # 922
All: We are not alone; we live in God’s world. We believe in God: who has created and is creating, who has come in Jesus, the Word made flesh, to reconcile and make new, who works in us and others by the Spirit. We trust in God. We are called to be the Church: to celebrate God’s presence, to live with respect in Creation, to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, our judge and our hope. In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us. We are not alone. Thanks be to God.
#644: Healer of our Every Ill
Giving with Gratitude
All: Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, All I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it.
Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace, that is enough for me.
#526: En Medio de la Vida
Children’s Time
#194: Lead on, O cloud of Presence
Scripture Reading (Exodus 20: 1-17)
Congregational Prayer #146: Lord Jesus, Come and Overturn
Scripture Reading (John 12:13-22)
Sermon (On Grief and Trauma)
Announcements
Benediction
Closing Hymn – #779: You’re Not Alone
Scripture
Exodus 20: 1-17
Then God spoke all these words:
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before* me.
You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation* of those who love me and keep my commandments.
You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.
Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. For six days you shall labour and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it. Honour your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
You shall not murder.*
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.
You shall not covet your neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.
John 2:13-22
The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money-changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. He told those who were selling the doves, ‘Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a market-place!’ His disciples remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’ The Jews then said to him, ‘What sign can you show us for doing this?’ Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews then said, ‘This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?’ But he was speaking of the temple of his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.