CENTERING PRAYER - "Living Christ, I know you are with me. This situation is more than I can handle. I am in over my head. I give you this whole problem now. Take it over, the whole thing, all the way. Fill me, fill this place, fill all of us who are here with your transforming presence. I thank you that at this moment you are enfolding us. In your name, by your word, and through your power. Amen." Flora Slosson Wuellener Author's adaptation from Prayer, Fear, and Our Powers (Nashville: Upper Room Books). 95.
CALL TO WORSHIP
One: All who struggle with issues of life and faith, come and gather here.
All: We come to be renewed by God.
One: All who scuffle with God, come and find rest here.
All: We come to be blessed by God.
One: All who hunger and strive for a deeper relationship with God and with each other,
come and be fed here.
All: We come to be reassured by God.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
God of compassion, we are sick. We have wrestled all night with worry instead of resting in you. We have asserted our own goodness instead of awakening to yours. We have turned away those hungry for your help instead of trusting you and feeding them from your limitless supply of blessings. Forgive us, heal us, and help us to hold on to you. We call upon you, for we know you will answer us, O God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
SCRIPTURE Genesis 32:22-31
For Pastor Dave's sermon "Struggling, Scuffling, and Striving", Click here.
For Pastor Dave's sermon "Struggling, Scuffling, and Striving", Click here.
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