Worship for July 4-5

Online Worship For July 5

Blessings everyone! In today’s service our story of Job wraps up.

Some think these verses were a “happy ending” added later to soften the book. I’m not so sure…Job is given everything back and then some. Children, grandchildren...but think about it. To love is to risk the vulnerability of heart wrenching pain as well...so Job is risking stepping back into LIFE . Job was written as a parable and as such, draws us into the story...many many life lessons here....

Job 41:1-8; 42:1-17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfZN2-xIuaI&feature=youtu.be

On this Fourth of July Weekend I would also call us to our "Better Selves" as citizens who make up this nation. Our final hymn today is America the Beautiful. Many have thought it would be a better national anthem since it calls us to a high, yet noble, ideal:

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood ( and sisterhood!)
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,
And every gain divine!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!