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Worship Leader: Linda Washburn
Speaker: Michele Rizoli
Song Leader: J.D. Penner
Pianist: Sandra Horst
Ushers: Christina Reimer/ Rachel Schmidt
Tech Team (In-Person / Online): Bob Loewen/Ben Thiessen
Coffee: Ellie and Nadine Cressman
Activity Period: Laura Giesbrecht and Sherry Nelligan
Opening Songs
VT 152 – God Whose Purpose is to Kindle
How Do You Know – Bryan Moyer Sudermann
Welcome
Announcements
Land Acknowledgement
Opening Prayer
VT 911
Giving with Gratitude
Scripture Reading 1: Psalm 1
Children’s Time
VT 514 – I saw a tree
Scripture Reading 2: John 14:15-27
Congregational Prayer – Michele Rizoli
Sermon
Song VT 839 – Go, my friends, in peace – verse B
Benediction
VT 911
Psalm 1 The Message
How well God must like you—
you don’t walk in the ruts of those blind-as-bats,
you don’t stand with the good-for-nothings,
you don’t take your seat among the know-it-alls.
2-3 Instead you thrill to God’s Word,
you chew on Scripture day and night.
You’re a tree replanted in Eden,
bearing fresh fruit every month,
Never dropping a leaf,
always in blossom.
4-5 You’re not at all like the wicked,
who are mere windblown dust—
Without defense in court,
unfit company for innocent people.
6 God charts the road you take. The road they take leads to nowhere.
John 14: 15-27 The Message
15-17 “If you love me, show it by doing what I’ve told you. I will talk to the Father, and he’ll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you. This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can’t take him in because it doesn’t have eyes to see him, doesn’t know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!
18-20 “I will not leave you orphaned. I’m coming back. In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you’re going to see me because I am alive and you’re about to come alive. At that moment you will know absolutely that I’m in my Father, and you’re in me, and I’m in you.
21 “The person who knows my commandments and keeps them, that’s who loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and make myself plain to him.”
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said, “Master, why is it that you are about to make yourself plain to us but not to the world?”
23-24 “Because a loveless world,” said Jesus, “is a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him—we’ll move right into the neighborhood! Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn’t mine. It’s the message of the Father who sent me.
25-27 “I’m telling you these things while I’m still living with you. The Friend, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will make everything plain to you. He will remind you of all the things I have told you. I’m leaving you well and whole. That’s my parting gift to you. Peace. I don’t leave you the way you’re used to being left—feeling abandoned, bereft. So don’t be upset. Don’t be distraught.