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You can listen to the service here<\/a>. Worship Leader:<\/strong> Linda Washburn Opening Songs<\/strong> Psalm 1 The Message<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n How well God must like you\u2014 2-3 Instead you thrill to God\u2019s Word, John 14: 15-27 The Message<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 15-17 \u201cIf you love me, show it by doing what I\u2019ve told you. I will talk to the Father, and he\u2019ll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you. This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can\u2019t take him in because it doesn\u2019t have eyes to see him, doesn\u2019t know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you! Pastor Michele Rizoli talks about our deep human connection to trees and all we can learn from them: about strength, interconnection and growth. <\/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-11557","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\/11557","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=11557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11563,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557\/revisions\/11563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
You can listen to the sermon here<\/a>.
You can read the sermon here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaker: <\/strong>Michele Rizoli
Song Leader:<\/strong> J.D. Penner
Pianist:<\/strong> Sandra Horst
Ushers:<\/strong> Christina Reimer\/ Rachel Schmidt
Tech Team (In-Person \/ Online): <\/strong>Bob Loewen\/Ben Thiessen
Coffee:<\/strong> Ellie and Nadine Cressman
Activity Period:<\/strong> Laura Giesbrecht and Sherry Nelligan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
VT 152 <\/strong>\u2013 God Whose Purpose is to Kindle
How Do You Know –<\/strong> Bryan Moyer Sudermann
Welcome
Announcements
Land Acknowledgement
Opening Prayer<\/strong>
VT 911<\/strong>
Giving with Gratitude<\/strong>
Scripture Reading 1<\/strong>: Psalm 1
Children’s Time<\/strong>
VT 514 <\/strong>– I saw a tree
Scripture Reading 2<\/strong>: John 14:15-27
Congregational Prayer <\/strong>– Michele Rizoli
Sermon
Song VT 839<\/strong> – Go, my friends, in peace \u2013 verse B
Benediction<\/strong>
VT 911<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
you don\u2019t walk in the ruts of those blind-as-bats,
you don\u2019t stand with the good-for-nothings,
you don\u2019t take your seat among the know-it-alls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
you chew on Scripture day and night.
You\u2019re a tree replanted in Eden,
bearing fresh fruit every month,
Never dropping a leaf,
always in blossom.
4-5 You\u2019re not at all like the wicked,
who are mere windblown dust\u2014
Without defense in court,
unfit company for innocent people.
6 God charts the road you take. The road they take leads to nowhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
18-20 \u201cI will not leave you orphaned. I\u2019m coming back. In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you\u2019re going to see me because I am alive and you\u2019re about to come alive. At that moment you will know absolutely that I\u2019m in my Father, and you\u2019re in me, and I\u2019m in you.
21 \u201cThe person who knows my commandments and keeps them, that\u2019s who loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and make myself plain to him.\u201d
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said, \u201cMaster, why is it that you are about to make yourself plain to us but not to the world?\u201d
23-24 \u201cBecause a loveless world,\u201d said Jesus, \u201cis a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him\u2014we\u2019ll move right into the neighborhood! Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn\u2019t mine. It\u2019s the message of the Father who sent me.
25-27 \u201cI\u2019m telling you these things while I\u2019m still living with you. The Friend, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will make everything plain to you. He will remind you of all the things I have told you. I\u2019m leaving you well and whole. That\u2019s my parting gift to you. Peace. I don\u2019t leave you the way you\u2019re used to being left\u2014feeling abandoned, bereft. So don\u2019t be upset. Don\u2019t be distraught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"