19th Sunday after Pentecost October 20, 2019
Welcome & Announcements
*Call to Worship: Psalm 121
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………….. pg. 2
THE OPENING HYMN --------------------------------- (WOV) # 783
“Seek Ye First”
*Confession of Sins ……………………………..................... pg. 2
*Kyrie …………………………………………………….…. pg. 3
*Declaration of Grace …………………………………..…… pg. 3
HYMN---------------------------------------------------------------- # 314
“Judge Eternal, Throned in Splendor”
Scripture Lessons: First Reading: Genesis 32:22-30
Second Reading: 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5
*The Gospel: Luke 18:1-8
*Response to the Gospel …………………………………..… pg. 3
*Confession of Faith – The Apostles’ Creed ………………... pg. 4
*Gloria Patri …………………………………………………. pg. 4
Special Music: Men’s Choir
The Offering
*Response: “Create in Me A Clean Heart O God” ……..….. pg. 17
*Prayers of the Church
HYMN --------------------------------------------------------------- # 583
“God Moves in a Mysterious Way”
Sermon: “Pray for Justice”
THE CLOSING HYMN ------------------------------------------- # 301
“From Thee All Skill and Science Flow”
*The Lord’s Prayer ………………………………………….. pg. 5
*The Benediction ………………………………..…………... pg. 5
*Three-fold Amen ………………………………...…………. pg. 5
THE DOXOLOGY ……………………………...………….. # 390
Organ Postlude
(* Indicates where congregation should stand if possible)
WE CORDIALLY WELCOME all who have come to worship with us this morning, especially our guests and visitors. May our Father’s mercy in Jesus assure you of the forgiveness of all your sins. If you have not established your church home in our area, we are anxious to share with you all the blessings which God gives to us through His Word. We ask that you please sign our guest book, and we hope that you return to worship with us again soon.
Announcements
Muffins will be served following the service this morning.
The FLY Meeting has been rescheduled for tonight at 7:00 p.m.
Note of Interest: October is Pastor Appreciation Month!
First American will be having Jeff Siegel, currently of Chosen People Ministries and Global Sports Federation, give a presentation on the Jewish Fall Festivals on Saturday, October 26th. There will be a potluck meal at 5 pm, followed by the presentation beginning around 6 pm. There will be a freewill offering taken to support Jeff's Global Sports Federation. Any questions please feel free to have people contact me at blnelson1@gmail.com or 612-868-0789.
This week’s activities:
Oct. 26th – Sat. – Courtney Lau & Logan Sorenson Wedding
Oct. 27th – Sun. – Worship, 9:00 a.m. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m.
*Call to Worship: Psalm 121 NIV
121 I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From
where does my help come?
2 My
help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot be moved;
he who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold,
he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is your keeper;
the
Lord is your shade on your right hand.
6 The
sun shall not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord will keep you from all
evil;
he will keep your life.
8 The
Lord will keep
your going out and your coming in
from
this time forth and forevermore.
1st Reading: Genesis 32:22-30 NIV
22 The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had. 24 And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. 25 When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. 26 Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” 27 And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” 28 Then he said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.” 29 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. 30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”
2nd Reading: 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 NIV
14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it 15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
4 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 5 As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
*The Gospel: Luke 18:1-8 NIV
18 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” 6 And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. 7 And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? 8 I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”