McPhail Weblog Nov 7 2021

McPhail Baptist Church

Remembrance Day Service

Vimy Canadian Memorial

Prelude:

“O World, I Now Must Leave Thee” (J Brahms)

Hymn: “Give To Our God Immortal Praise”

A Prayer of Freedom

O Lord, our God, we are grateful that You have entered history, shown us your justice, called us from dangerous folly and given us your love. We remember our long pilgrimage towards freedom, and we give thanks for all who sacrificed themselves to bring it within our grasp.

May your new life transform relations between peoples of the world. Heal the international rivalries of the past and present. Inspire us to establish justice, to forgive enemies, and to break the vicious circle of war and hate.

Hear our hearts’ cries in the name of Him who said, “If the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.” We pray this in Christ’s name, the Prince of Peace. Amen.

O Canada

Arranged/Played by Owen and Logan Bueckert

Some Of Those Who Served:

Hymns For Remembrance Sunday

Led by Lynda Cox

Let There Be Peace On Earth

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me;

Let there be peace on earth, the peace that was meant to be.

With God as our Father brothers all are we,

Let me walk with my sister in perfect harmony.

Let peace begin with me, let this be the moment now;

With every step I take, let this be my solemn vow:

To take each moment and live each moment in peace eternally.

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.

Eternal Father, Strong To Save

Eternal Father, strong to save, whose arm hath bound the restless wave,

Who biddest the mighty ocean deep its own appointed limits keep;

Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,

For those in peril on the sea.

O Christ! the Lord of hill and plain, o’er which our traffic runs amain,

By mountain pass or valley low; wherever, Lord, Thy children go,

Protect them by Thy guarding hand,

From every peril on the land!

O Spirit, whom the Father sent, to spread abroad the firmament;

O wind of heaven, by Thy might, save all who dare the eagle’s flight.

And keep them by Thy watchful care,

From every peril in the air.

O Trinity of love and power thy children shield in danger’s hour;

From rock and tempest, fire and foe, protect them wheresoe’er they go;

Thus evermore shall rise to Thee,

Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.

Scripture Reading: Genesis 49:29-50:13 (NRSV)

Jacob’s Death and Burial

29 Then he charged them, saying to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my ancestors—in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 in the cave in the field at Machpelah, near Mamre, in the land of Canaan, in the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site. 31 There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried; there Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried; and there I buried Leah— 32 the field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.” 33 When Jacob ended his charge to his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.

50 Then Joseph threw himself on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him. 2 Joseph commanded the physicians in his service to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel; 3 they spent forty days in doing this, for that is the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph addressed the household of Pharaoh, “If now I have found favor with you, please speak to Pharaoh as follows: 5 My father made me swear an oath; he said, ‘I am about to die. In the tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.’ Now therefore let me go up, so that I may bury my father; then I will return.” 6 Pharaoh answered, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”

7 So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8 as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen. 9 Both chariots and charioteers went up with him. It was a very great company. 10 When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they held there a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed a time of mourning for his father seven days. 11 When the Canaanite inhabitants of the land saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning on the part of the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim; it is beyond the Jordan. 12 Thus his sons did for him as he had instructed them. 13 They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, the field near Mamre, which Abraham bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

Sermon: “A Debt to the Dead”

Rev. Steve Zink

“He breathed his last and was gathered to his people” Gen 49:33