{"id":11264,"date":"2024-01-30T10:38:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/?p=11264"},"modified":"2024-02-27T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T15:36:54","slug":"sunday-january-28-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/?p=11264","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, January 28, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Character References: David and Goliath<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u2018Character References\u2019 series is also available via the TUMC On Air podcast. Subscribe here<\/a> or wherever you get podcasts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read the sermon here<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to the service here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to the sermon here<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worship Leaders: <\/strong>Ryan Miller and Melanie Penner
Speaker: <\/strong>Peter Haresnape
Song Leader: <\/strong>Bob Loewen
Pianist: <\/strong>Mark Andrews
Ushers:<\/strong> Doreen Martens and Jeff Taylor
Tech Team (In-Person \/ Online): <\/strong>Brad Lepp and Ben Thiessen
Activity Period:<\/strong> Laura Giesbrecht
Coffee: <\/strong>Peter and Denise Voth
Children’s Story<\/strong>: Doreen Martens<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gathering Hymns<\/strong>
VT 421<\/strong> A Mighty Fortress is Our God
VT 716<\/strong> God of Grace and God of Glory
Welcome<\/strong>
Land acknowledgment<\/strong>
Announcements
Call to worship<\/strong>
VT 853<\/strong>
VT 159 <\/strong>Kwake Yesu nasimama (Here on Christ the Rock I will Stand)
Giving with gratitude
Children\u2019s time
Congregational Prayer<\/strong>
VT 712 <\/strong>Beauty for Brokenness
Scripture <\/strong>\u2013 1 Samuel 17:4-11; 32-40
Sermon<\/strong>
VT 409<\/strong> For We Are Strangers No More
Benediction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scripture
1 Samuel 17:4-11<\/strong>
4 A champion named Goliath from Gath came out from the Philistine camp. He was more than nine feet tall. 5 He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore bronze scale-armor weighing one hundred twenty-five pounds. 6 He had bronze plates on his shins, and a bronze scimitar hung on his back. 7 His spear shaft was as strong as the bar on a weaver\u2019s loom, and its iron head weighed fifteen pounds. His shield-bearer walked in front of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 He stopped and shouted to the Israelite troops, \u201cWhy have you come and taken up battle formations? I am the Philistine champion, and you are Saul\u2019s servants. Isn\u2019t that right? Select one of your men, and let him come down against me. 9 If he is able to fight me and kill me, then we will become your slaves, but if I overcome him and kill him, then you will become our slaves and you will serve us. 10 I insult Israel\u2019s troops today!\u201d The Philistine continued, \u201cGive me an opponent, and we\u2019ll fight!\u201d 11 When Saul and all Israel heard what the Philistine said, they were distressed and terrified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Samuel 17:32-40<\/strong>
32 \u201cDon\u2019t let anyone lose courage because of this Philistine!\u201d David told Saul. \u201cI, your servant, will go out and fight him!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

33 \u201cYou can\u2019t go out and fight this Philistine,\u201d Saul answered David. \u201cYou are still a boy. But he\u2019s been a warrior since he was a boy!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

34 \u201cYour servant has kept his father\u2019s sheep,\u201d David replied to Saul, \u201cand if ever a lion or a bear came and carried off one of the flock, 35 I would go after it, strike it, and rescue the animal from its mouth. If it turned on me, I would grab it at its jaw, strike it, and kill it. 36 Your servant has fought both lions and bears. This uncircumcised Philistine will be just like one of them because he has insulted the army of the living God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

37 \u201cThe Lord,\u201d David added, \u201cwho rescued me from the power of both lions and bears, will rescue me from the power of this Philistine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGo!\u201d Saul replied to David. \u201cAnd may the Lord be with you!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

38 Then Saul dressed David in his own gear, putting a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. 39 David strapped his sword on over the armor, but he couldn\u2019t walk around well because he\u2019d never tried it before. \u201cI can\u2019t walk in this,\u201d David told Saul, \u201cbecause I\u2019ve never tried it before.\u201d So he took them off. 40 He then grabbed his staff and chose five smooth stones from the streambed. He put them in the pocket of his shepherd\u2019s bag and with sling in hand went out to the Philistine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this “Character Reference” we examine the familiar story of David and Goliath, the plucky boy shepherd who felled a might warrior armed only with a slingshot. But is there more to the story than what we learned in Sunday School. <\/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-11264","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\/11264","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=11264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11367,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11264\/revisions\/11367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}