The Bible.  It’s what we call the “Word of God.”  It’s the sacred texts around which we gather our worship, service, study, and action.

The United Church of Canada’s most recent statement of faith – A Song of Faith – says that “Scripture is our song for the journey.”  It describes the Bible as “the living word, passed on from generation to generation to guide and inspire, that we might wrestle a holy revelation for our time and place from the human experiences and cultural assumptions of another era.”

Many of us can point to passages from the Bible that are meaningful for our lives.  Some of these passages are connected with specific life events.  Others have sustained us through ups and downs.  Indeed, for many, scripture is the song for the journey.

This summer, our services and sermons gather together ten Bible passages that you – the Port Nelson family – have named as meaningful in your lives.  They are well known and little known.  They come from the Old Testament and the New Testament.  They cover the whole range of human experience and emotion.  They are diverse, yet all ultimately point to the living God, made known in Jesus Christ.