Wrestling with Challenge Scripture
Prelude
Stephanie Shorden
Greeting
Pastor Donnie Sturgill
*Threshold Song
Word of God Speak
Mercy Me
Peter Kipley and Bart Millard
© 2002 Wordspring Music, LLC, Songs From the Indigo Room and Simpleville Music
1. I’m finding myself
at a loss for words
and the funny thing is
it’s okay.
The last thing I need
is to be heard,
but to hear
what You would say.
Word of God, speak.
Would you pour down like rain, washing my eyes to see
your majesty,
to be still and know,
that you’re in this place?
Please let me stay and rest
in your holiness.
Word of God, speak.
2. I’m finding myself
in the midst of you,
beyond the music,
beyond the noise.
All that I need
is to be with you,
and in the quiet,
I hear your voice.
Word of God, speak.
Would you pour down like rain, washing my eyes to see
your majesty,
to be still and know,
that you’re in this place?
Please let me stay and rest
in your holiness.
Word of God, speak.
Would you pour down like rain, washing my eyes to see
your majesty,
to be still and know,
that you’re in this place?
Please let me stay and rest
in your holiness.
Word of God, speak.
Word of God, speak.
*Call To Worship
CLM Twinkle Gordon
Leader: Holy Lord, We come to this place of rest from the challenges of our daily lives.
People: Nurture us, feed us, give us rest.
Leader: But we know that not everything here is easy. Sometimes we are moved, challenged, or broken open again.
People: Let us find our faith anew amidst the challenges given to us by God.
Leader: This is the day that the Lord has made.
People: We shall rejoice and be glad in it!
*Gathering Song
My Hope is Built
UMH #368
WORDS: Edward Mote, 1834
1. My hope is built
on nothing less
than Jesus’ blood
and righteousness.
I dare not trust
the sweetest frame,
but wholly lean
on Jesus’ name.
Refrain
On Christ the solid
rock I stand,
all other ground
is sinking sand;
all other ground
is sinking sand.
2. When darkness veils
his lovely face,
I rest on his
unchanging grace.
In every high
and stormy gale,
my anchor holds
within the veil.
Refrain
On Christ the solid
rock I stand,
all other ground
is sinking sand;
all other ground
is sinking sand.
3. His oath, his covenant,
his blood
support me in
the whelming flood.
When all around
my soul gives way,
he then is all
my hope and stay.
Refrain
On Christ the solid
rock I stand,
all other ground
is sinking sand;
all other ground
is sinking sand.
4. When he shall come
with trumpet sound,
O may I then
in him be found!
Dressed in his
righteousness alone,
faultless to stand
before the throne!
Refrain
On Christ the solid
rock I stand,
all other ground
is sinking sand;
all other ground
is sinking sand.
Mystery Box
Prayer Song
Sweet Hour of Prayer
Vs. 1 UMH #496
WORDS: William Walford, 1845
1. Sweet hour of prayer!
sweet hour of prayer!
that calls me from
a world of care,
and bids me at
my Father’s throne
make all my wants
and wishes known.
In seasons of
distress and grief,
my soul has often
found relief,
and oft escaped
the tempter’s snare
by thy return,
sweet hour of prayer!
Pastoral, Silent and, The Lord’s Prayer
Pastor Donnie Sturgill
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name; Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power and the Glory forever.
Amen
Prayer Response
Sweet Hour of Prayer
vs. 2 UMH #496
WORDS: William Walford, 1845
2. Sweet hour of prayer!
sweet hour of prayer!
the joys I feel,
the bliss I share
of those whose anxious
spirits burn
with strong desires
for thy return!
With such I hasten
to the place
where God my Savior
shows his face,
and gladly take
my station there,
and wait for thee,
sweet hour of prayer!
Invitation to Offering
CLM Twinkle Gordon
Offertory
Prayer of Thanks and Dedication
Pastor Donnie Sturgill
*Doxology
Praise God from Whom all Blessings Flow
Praise God, from whom
all blessings flow;
Praise God, all creatures
here below: Alleluia! Alleluia!
Praise God, the source
of all our gifts!
Praise Jesus Christ,
whose power uplifts!
Praise the Spirit,
Holy Spirit!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia!
Scripture Reading
Genesis 32:22-32
CLM Twinkle Gordon
The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, “Let me go, for the day is breaking.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go, unless you bless me.” So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” Then the man said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans and have prevailed.” Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him. So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, yet my life is preserved.” The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the thigh muscle that is on the hip socket, because he struck Jacob on the hip socket at the thigh muscle.
Prayer for Illumination
Leader: May the words of my mouth,
People: and the meditations of all of our hearts
All: be acceptable in your sight, O Lord our rock and our redeemer.
Psalm 19:14
Message
Wrestling with Challenging Scripture
Pastor Donnie Sturgill
*Hymn
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
UMH #400
WORDS: Robert Robinson, 1758 (1 Sam. 7:12)
1. Come, thou Fount
of every blessing,
tune my heart
to sing thy grace;
streams of mercy,
never ceasing,
call for songs of
loudest praise.
Teach me some
melodious sonnet,
sung by flaming
tongues above.
Praise the mount!
I’m fixed upon it,
mount of thy
redeeming love.
2. Here I raise
mine Ebenezer;
hither by thy
help I’m come;
and I hope, by
thy good pleasure,
safely to
arrive at home.
Jesus sought me
when a stranger,
wandering from the
fold of God;
he, to rescue
me from danger,
interposed his
precious blood.
3. O to grace
how great a debtor
daily I’m
constrained to be!
Let thy goodness,
like a fetter,
bind my wandering
heart to thee.
Prone to wander,
Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the
God I love;
here’s my heart,
O take and seal it,
seal it for thy
courts above.
*Benediction
Postlude
Stephanie Shorden
Stephanie Shorden
Greeting
Pastor Donnie Sturgill
*Threshold Song
Word of God Speak
Mercy Me
Peter Kipley and Bart Millard
© 2002 Wordspring Music, LLC, Songs From the Indigo Room and Simpleville Music
1. I’m finding myself
at a loss for words
and the funny thing is
it’s okay.
The last thing I need
is to be heard,
but to hear
what You would say.
Word of God, speak.
Would you pour down like rain, washing my eyes to see
your majesty,
to be still and know,
that you’re in this place?
Please let me stay and rest
in your holiness.
Word of God, speak.
2. I’m finding myself
in the midst of you,
beyond the music,
beyond the noise.
All that I need
is to be with you,
and in the quiet,
I hear your voice.
Word of God, speak.
Would you pour down like rain, washing my eyes to see
your majesty,
to be still and know,
that you’re in this place?
Please let me stay and rest
in your holiness.
Word of God, speak.
Would you pour down like rain, washing my eyes to see
your majesty,
to be still and know,
that you’re in this place?
Please let me stay and rest
in your holiness.
Word of God, speak.
Word of God, speak.
*Call To Worship
CLM Twinkle Gordon
Leader: Holy Lord, We come to this place of rest from the challenges of our daily lives.
People: Nurture us, feed us, give us rest.
Leader: But we know that not everything here is easy. Sometimes we are moved, challenged, or broken open again.
People: Let us find our faith anew amidst the challenges given to us by God.
Leader: This is the day that the Lord has made.
People: We shall rejoice and be glad in it!
*Gathering Song
My Hope is Built
UMH #368
WORDS: Edward Mote, 1834
1. My hope is built
on nothing less
than Jesus’ blood
and righteousness.
I dare not trust
the sweetest frame,
but wholly lean
on Jesus’ name.
Refrain
On Christ the solid
rock I stand,
all other ground
is sinking sand;
all other ground
is sinking sand.
2. When darkness veils
his lovely face,
I rest on his
unchanging grace.
In every high
and stormy gale,
my anchor holds
within the veil.
Refrain
On Christ the solid
rock I stand,
all other ground
is sinking sand;
all other ground
is sinking sand.
3. His oath, his covenant,
his blood
support me in
the whelming flood.
When all around
my soul gives way,
he then is all
my hope and stay.
Refrain
On Christ the solid
rock I stand,
all other ground
is sinking sand;
all other ground
is sinking sand.
4. When he shall come
with trumpet sound,
O may I then
in him be found!
Dressed in his
righteousness alone,
faultless to stand
before the throne!
Refrain
On Christ the solid
rock I stand,
all other ground
is sinking sand;
all other ground
is sinking sand.
Mystery Box
Prayer Song
Sweet Hour of Prayer
Vs. 1 UMH #496
WORDS: William Walford, 1845
1. Sweet hour of prayer!
sweet hour of prayer!
that calls me from
a world of care,
and bids me at
my Father’s throne
make all my wants
and wishes known.
In seasons of
distress and grief,
my soul has often
found relief,
and oft escaped
the tempter’s snare
by thy return,
sweet hour of prayer!
Pastoral, Silent and, The Lord’s Prayer
Pastor Donnie Sturgill
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name; Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power and the Glory forever.
Amen
Prayer Response
Sweet Hour of Prayer
vs. 2 UMH #496
WORDS: William Walford, 1845
2. Sweet hour of prayer!
sweet hour of prayer!
the joys I feel,
the bliss I share
of those whose anxious
spirits burn
with strong desires
for thy return!
With such I hasten
to the place
where God my Savior
shows his face,
and gladly take
my station there,
and wait for thee,
sweet hour of prayer!
Invitation to Offering
CLM Twinkle Gordon
Offertory
Prayer of Thanks and Dedication
Pastor Donnie Sturgill
*Doxology
Praise God from Whom all Blessings Flow
Praise God, from whom
all blessings flow;
Praise God, all creatures
here below: Alleluia! Alleluia!
Praise God, the source
of all our gifts!
Praise Jesus Christ,
whose power uplifts!
Praise the Spirit,
Holy Spirit!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia!
Scripture Reading
Genesis 32:22-32
CLM Twinkle Gordon
The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, “Let me go, for the day is breaking.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go, unless you bless me.” So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” Then the man said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans and have prevailed.” Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him. So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, yet my life is preserved.” The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the thigh muscle that is on the hip socket, because he struck Jacob on the hip socket at the thigh muscle.
Prayer for Illumination
Leader: May the words of my mouth,
People: and the meditations of all of our hearts
All: be acceptable in your sight, O Lord our rock and our redeemer.
Psalm 19:14
Message
Wrestling with Challenging Scripture
Pastor Donnie Sturgill
*Hymn
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
UMH #400
WORDS: Robert Robinson, 1758 (1 Sam. 7:12)
1. Come, thou Fount
of every blessing,
tune my heart
to sing thy grace;
streams of mercy,
never ceasing,
call for songs of
loudest praise.
Teach me some
melodious sonnet,
sung by flaming
tongues above.
Praise the mount!
I’m fixed upon it,
mount of thy
redeeming love.
2. Here I raise
mine Ebenezer;
hither by thy
help I’m come;
and I hope, by
thy good pleasure,
safely to
arrive at home.
Jesus sought me
when a stranger,
wandering from the
fold of God;
he, to rescue
me from danger,
interposed his
precious blood.
3. O to grace
how great a debtor
daily I’m
constrained to be!
Let thy goodness,
like a fetter,
bind my wandering
heart to thee.
Prone to wander,
Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the
God I love;
here’s my heart,
O take and seal it,
seal it for thy
courts above.
*Benediction
Postlude
Stephanie Shorden
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