Sunday, October 16, 2022
Nineteenth Sunday in Pentecost
Sermon Text: Genesis 32:22-30
"[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.’’’
Sermon Theme: "Unexpected Blessings"