From Lament to Assurance

Worship Leader: Michele Rizoli/ Kathryn Gray
Speaker: Bob Loewen
Music: Jeff Taylor and Mark Andrews
Technical Team: Ted Steenburgh and Jonah Thiessen
Ushers: Doreen Martens and Jeff Taylor
Coffee Hour Hosts: Christina Reimer and Michael Schmidt

Pre-service music
Gathering Song: VT #111 10,000 Reasons
Gathering Song: VT #36 Let us build a house
Welcome
Call to worship/prayer: Lucas Thiessen
Giving with Gratitude 
Scripture Reading: Bob Loewen, Psalm 121
Video: Psalm 121 sung by Rabbi Levi Bisk 
Time with the Children 
Song: VT #696 My God, my God, would you forsake me?
Congregational Prayer
Scripture Reading: Jennifer Stolte : Psalm 84: 1-4, 10-12 NRSV
Sermon: “From Lament to Assurance”
Song: VT #610 Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Announcements 
Song: VT #588 We walk by faith
Benediction

Scripture Readings:

Psalm 121
I raise my eyes toward the mountains. Where will my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.
God won’t let your foot slip.
Your protector won’t fall asleep on the job.
No! Israel’s protector never sleeps or rests!
The Lord is your protector; the Lord is your shade right beside you.
The sun won’t strike you during the day; neither will the moon at night.
The Lord will protect you from all evil; God will protect your very life.
The Lord will protect you on your journeys—whether going or coming—
from now until forever from now.

Psalm 84: 1-4, 10-12 (NSRV)

1 How lovely is your dwelling place,
O Lord of hosts!
2 My soul longs, indeed it faints
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh sing for joy
to the living God.

3 Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young,
at your altars, O Lord of hosts,
my King and my God.
4 Happy are those who live in your house,
ever singing your praise.Selah

10 For a day in your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than live in the tents of wickedness.
11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
he bestows favour and honour.
No good thing does the Lord withhold
from those who walk uprightly.
12 O Lord of hosts,
happy is everyone who trusts in you.

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