Worship Leader: Jana Lepp
Speaker: Michele Rizoli
Music: J.D. Penner and Linda Washburn
Technical Team: Brad Lepp + Lewis Stubbs
Ushers: Kathryn Gray + Lara Munro
Coffee Hour Hosts: Ernie Hamm and Alison Li
Prelude
We gather:
Intro Song (VT# 436): How Great Thou Art
Scripture: Psalm 42
Welcome & Announcements
Giving with Gratitude
We hear:
Hymn: Led by Children’s Choir – God within me
Children’s Time
Hymn (VT #43): God be the love
Scripture: Psalm 116
Sermon
We reflect & rejoice:
Hymn (VT #532): Be at rest
Congregational Prayer
Benediction: Psalm 104
Hymn (#VT 111): 10,000 Reasons / Bless the Lord
Postlude
Scripture Readings
Scripture: Psalm 42
As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, my God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?
My tears have been my food day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”
These things I remember as I pour out my soul:
how I used to go to the house of God
under the protection of the Mighty One
with shouts of joy and praise
among the festive throng.
Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.
My soul is downcast within me;
therefore I will remember you
from the land of the Jordan,
the heights of Hermon
—from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep
in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
have swept over me.
By day the Lord directs his love,
at night his song is with me—
a prayer to the God of my life.
I say to God my Rock: “Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”
My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me,
saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.
a portion of Psalm 104: God the Creator and Provider
Stand in wonder, O my soul, before the Eternal.
Holy One, my God, you are vast beyond measure.
You stretch out the sky like a cloth,
You make winds your messengers,
You have steadied the earth on its foundation.
It will not collapse for all time.
The mountains rise up, the valleys split open
to the very place you prepared.
You established a boundary that water cannot transgress.
It will not return again to cover the earth.
You water the mountains from above.
From the fruit of your acts, the earth is sated.
You cause grass to sprout up for the cattle,
crops for the labour of human hands,
bringing forth bread from the earth,
wine to delight the human heart―
to make their faces glisten with oil,
and wheat,
by which the human heart gains strength.
The sun – you know the place from where it came.
You placed down darkness, and there was night.
In it crawl all the beasts of the forest.
How vast are your works, God,
all of them created with wisdom.
Your craftsmanship overflows the world.
Behold! The sea – its distance is huge and wide.
In it, creatures crawl beyond number,
small fish along with the large.
All of them look toward you to give them food.
You open your hand and they eat their share.
You hide your face,
and they are confounded, confused.
You take back their breath and they grow weak,
returning to the dust from which they were made.
You send forth your breath
and they are created.
You renew the face of the earth.
Your glory continues forever.
I will sing out to God with my life,
make melodies to the Creator
with all my strength.
Stand in wonder, O my soul,
before the Eternal.
Let my soul shine praises on God.
Amen.
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