{"id":10611,"date":"2023-09-26T10:24:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/?p=10611"},"modified":"2023-10-27T16:46:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T20:46:06","slug":"sunday-september-24-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/?p=10611","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, September 24, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Worship Leader:<\/strong> Michele Rizoli<br><strong>Speaker: <\/strong>Peter Haresnape<br><strong>Song Leader: <\/strong>Peter Voth<br><strong>Pianist:<\/strong> Ed Heese<br><strong>Ushers:<\/strong> Doreen Martens\/ Jeff Taylor<br><strong>Tech Team (In-Person \/ Online): <\/strong>Jon Brandt\/ Stephanie Hanna<br><strong>Coffee: <\/strong>Peter and Denise Voth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gathering songs:<\/strong><br><strong>VT 715<\/strong> Longing for Light<br><strong>VT 197<\/strong> God\u2019s Glory Fills the Heavens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Call to Worship VT 866<\/strong><br><strong>Welcome, Land Acknowledgement<\/strong><br><strong>VT 5 <\/strong>All People that on Earth do Dwell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Introduction to Theme<\/strong><br><strong>Responsive Reading<\/strong> for Truth and Reconciliation<br>(Immediately followed by<strong> VT 651<\/strong> Lord have mercy)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scripture Reading:<\/strong> Matthew 5:13-18 (Lyf and Jennifer Stolte)<br><strong>VT 297 <\/strong>You are the Salt for the Earth (verses 1,2,3)<br><strong>Giving with Gratitude\/Announcements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Children\u2019s Time <\/strong>&#8211; Peter Haresnape<br>(video about treaties)<br><strong>VT 207<\/strong> What does the Lord Require of You<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Congregational Prayer<\/strong><br><strong>Scripture Reading:<\/strong> Leviticus 25:1-17, 35 &#8211; 46, 55 (Lyf and Jennifer Stolte)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sermon<\/strong><br><strong>VT 827 <\/strong>Move in our Midst<br><strong>Benediction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Matthew 5:13-18<\/strong><br>13&nbsp; \u2018You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is<br>no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot.<br>14&nbsp; \u2018You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15&nbsp; No one after lighting a<br>lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.<br>16&nbsp; In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and<br>give glory to your Father in heaven.<br>17&nbsp; \u2018Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish<br>but to fulfil. 18&nbsp; For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke<br>of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leviticus 25:1-17, 35 \u2013 46, 55<\/strong><br>The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying: 2&nbsp; Speak to the people of Israel and say to<br>them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land shall observe a sabbath for the<br>LORD. 3&nbsp; For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard,<br>and gather in their yield; 4&nbsp; but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of complete rest for the<br>land, a sabbath for the LORD: you shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. 5&nbsp; You shall not<br>reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your unpruned vine: it shall be a year<br>of complete rest for the land. 6&nbsp; You may eat what the land yields during its sabbath\u2014you, your<br>male and female slaves, your hired and your bound labourers who live with you; 7&nbsp; for your<br>livestock also, and for the wild animals in your land all its yield shall be for food.<br>8&nbsp; You shall count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the period of seven<br>weeks of years gives forty-nine years. 9&nbsp; Then you shall have the trumpet sounded loud; on the<br>tenth day of the seventh month\u2014on the day of atonement\u2014you shall have the trumpet sounded<br>throughout all your land. 10&nbsp; And you shall hallow the fiftieth year and you shall proclaim liberty<br>throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you: you shall return, every one<br>of you, to your property and every one of you to your family. 11&nbsp; That fiftieth year shall be a<br>jubilee for you: you shall not sow, or reap the aftergrowth, or harvest the unpruned vines. 12&nbsp; For it<br>is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you: you shall eat only what the field itself produces.<br>13&nbsp; In this year of jubilee you shall return, every one of you, to your property. 14&nbsp; When you make a<br>sale to your neighbour or buy from your neighbour, you shall not cheat one another. 15&nbsp; When you<br>buy from your neighbour, you shall pay only for the number of years since the jubilee; the seller<br>shall charge you only for the remaining crop-years. 16&nbsp; If the years are more, you shall increase the<br>price, and if the years are fewer, you shall diminish the price; for it is a certain number of<br>harvests that are being sold to you. 17&nbsp; You shall not cheat one another, but you shall fear your<br>God; for I am the LORD your God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35&nbsp; If any of your kin fall into difficulty and become dependent on you, you shall support them;<br>they shall live with you as though resident aliens. 36&nbsp; Do not take interest in advance or otherwise<br>make a profit from them, but fear your God; let them live with you. 37&nbsp; You shall not lend them<br>your money at interest taken in advance, or provide them food at a profit. 38&nbsp; I am the LORD your<br>God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.<br>39&nbsp; If any who are dependent on you become so impoverished that they sell themselves to you, you<br>shall not make them serve as slaves. 40&nbsp; They shall remain with you as hired or bound labourers.<br>They shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee. 41&nbsp; Then they and their children with them<br>shall be free from your authority; they shall go back to their own family and return to their<br>ancestral property. 42&nbsp; For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they<br>shall not be sold as slaves are sold. 43&nbsp; You shall not rule over them with harshness, but shall fear<br>your God. 44&nbsp; As for the male and female slaves whom you may have, it is from the nations around<br>you that you may acquire male and female slaves. 45&nbsp; You may also acquire them from among the<br>aliens residing with you, and from their families that are with you, who have been born in your<br>land; and they may be your property. 46&nbsp; You may keep them as a possession for your children<br>after you, for them to inherit as property. These you may treat as slaves, but as for your fellow<br>Israelites, no one shall rule over the other with harshness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>55&nbsp; For to me the people of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out from the<br>land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to the service <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.cloud.google.com\/media.tumc.ca\/20230924-Service.mp3?authuser=0\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/storage.cloud.google.com\/media.tumc.ca\/20230924-Service.mp3?authuser=0\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to the sermon <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.cloud.google.com\/media.tumc.ca\/20230924-%20Sermon.mp3?authuser=0\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the sermon <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.cloud.google.com\/media.tumc.ca\/2023%2009%2024%20Sermon.docx?authuser=0\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worship Leader: Michele Rizoli<br \/>\nSpeaker: Peter Haresnape<br \/>\nReconciliation Sunday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons-a-worship-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10611"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10879,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611\/revisions\/10879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}