Worship Leader: Bob Loewen
Speaker: Jinah Im
Music: Jeff Taylor, Ed Heese
Technical Team: Brad Lepp/ Jonah Thiessen
Ushers: Rachel Schmidt/ Christina Reimer
Order of Service
Prelude
Gathering Hymns
VT # 4 – Christ is Our Cornerstone
VT #6 – Let’s Walk Together
Welcome and Land acknowledgement
Announcements
Call to Worship/Opening Prayer
Hymn VT 42 – Could It be That God is Singing
Scripture – Psalm 139: 1-6, 13-18
Giving with Gratitude
Children’s time
Hymn VT 56 – Like the Murmur of the Dove’s Song
Sharing and Prayer
Hymn of the Month VT 199 – O God you search me
Scripture 2 Corinthians 4: 1 – 15
Sermon What We Carry
Benediction Sending Hymn VT 849 – We, Your People, Sing Your Praises/Bon Berger, ton peuple t’adore
Congregational Prayer: Email prayer requests to Pastor Peter or the worship leader in advance.
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Scripture this week from the Common English Bible:
Psalm 139: 1-6, 13-18
2 Corinthians 4: 1 – 15
Psalm 139:1-6
For the music leader. Of David. A song.
139 Lord, you have examined me.
You know me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I stand up.
Even from far away, you comprehend my plans.
3 You study my traveling and resting.
You are thoroughly familiar with all my ways.
4 There isn’t a word on my tongue, Lord,
that you don’t already know completely.
5 You surround me—front and back.
You put your hand on me.
6 That kind of knowledge is too much for me;
it’s so high above me that I can’t reach it.
Psalm 139:13-18
13 You are the one who created my innermost parts;
you knit me together while I was still in my mother’s womb.
14 I give thanks to you that I was marvelously set apart.
Your works are wonderful—I know that very well.
15 My bones weren’t hidden from you
when I was being put together in a secret place,
when I was being woven together in the deep parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my embryo,
and on your scroll every day was written that was being formed for me,
before any one of them had yet happened.
17 God, your plans are incomprehensible to me!
Their total number is countless!
18 If I tried to count them—they outnumber grains of sand!
If I came to the very end—I’d still be with you.
2 Corinthians 4:1-15
4 This is why we don’t get discouraged, given that we received this ministry in the same way that we received God’s mercy. 2 Instead, we reject secrecy and shameful actions. We don’t use deception, and we don’t tamper with God’s word. Instead, we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God by the public announcement of the truth. 3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are on the road to destruction. 4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of those who don’t have faith so they couldn’t see the light of the gospel that reveals Christ’s glory. Christ is the image of God.
5 We don’t preach about ourselves. Instead, we preach about Jesus Christ as Lord, and we describe ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake. 6 God said that light should shine out of the darkness. He is the same one who shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ.
Physical bodies and eternal glory
7 But we have this treasure in clay pots so that the awesome power belongs to God and doesn’t come from us. 8 We are experiencing all kinds of trouble, but we aren’t crushed. We are confused, but we aren’t depressed. 9 We are harassed, but we aren’t abandoned. We are knocked down, but we aren’t knocked out.
10 We always carry Jesus’ death around in our bodies so that Jesus’ life can also be seen in our bodies. 11 We who are alive are always being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake so that Jesus’ life can also be seen in our bodies that are dying. 12 So death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
13 We have the same faithful spirit as what is written in scripture: I had faith, and so I spoke. We also have faith, and so we also speak. 14 We do this because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus, and he will bring us into his presence along with you. 15 All these things are for your benefit. As grace increases to benefit more and more people, it will cause gratitude to increase, which results in God’s glory.
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