Worship Focus 
Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church
January 22, 2017
 
Scripture Passage
   
Questions for
Reflection

Take a moment to simply take a sort of inventory of your emotions and your spirit. What is the state of your soul today?
 
When have you felt like you were working against the stream or against all reasonable odds? Did the sense of being against the odds overwhelm you? Motivate you?
 
Is there somewhere in your life where you feel that way today? How will you invite God into that place?

 
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Compelled to Sojourn :: Persistence
The Rev. Karin Hejmanowski, preaching 
  
 


It has been a big week for us as a nation as we officially transitioned from one administration to the next. As people of faith, our core identity is not as Americans, but as followers of Christ. It is in God alone that we place our trust, and God never changes.
 
This is the fourth Sunday of the month which means that we will have our healing prayer circle at Early Light and prayer stations available after all three services. Come and allow others the honor of praying for you and allow yourself the gift of the prayers lovingly offered in confidentiality.
 
Whether you worship at Early Light at 7:50 a.m. (contemplative), 10 a.m. (traditional), or 5 p.m. (contemporary), I look forward to gathering with you then.
 
Peace,
Karin

Theme for the Day
 

Rejoice in hope, be patient in affliction, be persistent in prayer. --Romans 12:12
Scripture Passage
 
As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a deep and terrifying darkness descended upon him. Then the Lord said to Abram, 'Know this for certain, that your offspring shall be aliens in a land that is not theirs, and shall be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years; but I will bring judgement on the nation that they serve, and afterwards they shall come out with great possessions. As for yourself, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. And they shall come back here in the fourth generation; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.'
 
When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking fire-pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, 'To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.'