God Provides Blessings "Jacob Steals a Blessing"
September 21, 2025 - 10:00 a.m.
*Please stand in body or in spirit. Congregational responses are in bold and preceded by "All"
GATHERING
Welcome and Announcements
Invitation and Sharing of Peace
Leader: Peace be with you. All: And also with you.
Prelude Trust In You - Rejuvenate
Lighting of the Altar Candles
Call to Worship (clergy stuff)
Leader: God is in this place.
All: We are in God’s holy presence.
Leader: This is the house of God.
All: The gate of heaven is here!
Opening Prayer (clergy stuff)
All: God of heaven and earth, in love and mercy, you pour out your blessing upon us, that we might be a blessing to all the earth. Show us the way to you each day so that, following in it, we might reflect your beauty, power, and justice in all that we say and do. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
*Opening Song Holy Ground - Rejuvenate
1. This is holy ground
We're standing on holy ground
For the Lord is present
And where He is is holy
This is holy ground
We're standing on holy ground
For the Lord is present
And where He is is holy
2. We are standing on holy ground,
And I know that there are angels all around;
let us praise Jesus now;
We are standing in his presence
on holy ground.
3. These are holy hands
He's given us holy hands
He works through these hands
And so these hands are holy
These are holy hands
He's given us holy hands
He works through these hands
And so these hands are holy
LISTENING
Scripture Reading: Genesis 27:1-4, 15-23, 28:10-17
Leader: This is the Word of God for the people of God. All: Thanks be to God.
Message for All Ages (Extended with Blessing of the Backpacks)
Sermon "Jacob Steals a Blessing" -Rev. DV Yost
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RESPONDING
*Sermon Song Nearer, My God to Thee - UMH 528
1. Nearer, my God, to you, nearer to you.
I'll bear the cross as Christ calls me to do
and pray each day anew:
Nearer my God, to you, nearer my God, to you,
nearer to you.
2. When I am wandering as Jacob did,
and in the deepest night the path is hid,
my dreams will bring me, too,
Nearer my God, to you, nearer my God, to you,
nearer to you.
3. Let Jacob's ladder fill the sky above,
and angels carry down the faith and love
to keep this goal in view:
Nearer my God, to you, nearer my God, to you,
nearer to you.
4. Then, waking from the night to morning air
by Bethel's stone, I'll know you hear my prayer,
and how my yearning grew:
Nearer my God, to you, nearer my God, to you,
nearer to you.
Prayers of the People
Leader: God of Promise, All: hear our prayer.
Offertory
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*Offering Response Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow UMH 94
*Prayer of Dedication (clergy stuff)
All: You do not ask of us more than we can give you, O God, but instead give us more than we can possibly need. We return now these gifts, a sacrifice for the well-being of the world, out of gratitude for all that has been sacrificed on our behalf. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
SENDING
*Closing Song Blessed Assurance UMH 369
1. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
born of his Spirit, washed in his blood.
This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long;
this is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.
2. Perfect submission, perfect delight,
visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
angels descending bring from above
echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long;
this is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.
3. Perfect submission, all is at rest;
I in my Savior am happy and blest,
watching and waiting, looking above,
filled with his goodness, lost in his love.
This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long;
this is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.
*Benediction
Benediction Response
Postlude
Next Week
God Provides Blessings: "God''s Name is Revealed"
September 28th, 2025
Exodus 2:23-25; 3:10-15; 4:10-17 Rev. Yost Preaching
Annoucements
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Trunk or Treat - October 15th 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
This Week at Arnolia
- Tuesday, September 23: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM Donations accepted at Thrift Store
- Tuesday, September 23: Noon Pastor's Study
- Tuesday, September 23: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Bible Study
- Thursday, September 25: 10 AM - 2 PM Thrift Store Open
- Thursday, September 25: 6:15 PM Celebration Ringers Rehearsal & 7:30 PM Chancel Choir Rehearsal
- Friday, September 26: Pastor’s Sabbath - Church Office Closed
- Sunday, September 28: 10 AM Worship Service
- The Church Office is open Monday through Thursday from 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
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