January 22
Sermon on the Mount I
Year 1 ( 2022 – 2023 )
Text:
Matthew 5:1-20
Summary:
Jesus teaches: Beatitudes, salt of the earth, let your light shine.
Call to Worship
Holy One,
You have called us the Salt of the earth –
challenging us to enhance the world
with the flavors of joy and justice,
hope and peace, courage and community.
Forgive us our blandness.
You have called us the Light of the world –
challenging us to live as beacons of hope amidst the shadows:
showing forth your color and creativity,
brightening the pathways that lead toward your kingdom,
pointing toward the glimmers of your glory
that forever shine amongst us.
Forgive us when we hide the Light you give.
Spice us up with the goodness of your Spirit.
Shine through us with your radiance.
Set us free from bitterness and bleakness,
that we may live as salt and light in this world.
Congregational Song Suggestions
The Beatitudes:
“Balaacoolwe (Blessed Are the Persecuted)”
Tonga – VT 578
“Beauty for Brokenness”
VT 712
“Blessed Are You”
VT 290
“Blessed Are the Poor (Rejoice, Be Glad)”
Text: Adam M. L. Tice
Tune: Kate Williams
Available from Unbound at giamusic.com
“If Jesus Is Come”
Text: Adam M. L. Tice
Tune: Sally Ann Morris
Available from Unbound at giamusic.com
“O Blest Are You“
Text: Mary Louise Bringle
Tune: Zach Stachowski
Available from Unbound at giamusic.com
“Onyame wo mu o (In Your Sickness)”
Ghana – VT 607
“Sword into a Plowshare”
VT 798
“When the Lord Redeems the Very Least”
GTG 852
Salt:
“As You Go Out from Here”
VT 841
“Light and Salt” (M. Roger Holland II)”
OLOFOB 468
“You Are Salt for the Earth”
VT 297
Light:
“Here in This Place (Gather Us In)”
GTG 401, VT 10
“Let Your Little Light Shine, Shine, Shine”
Georgia Sea Island spiritual
Arrangement by Pamela Warrick-Smith
“Longing for Light, We Wait in Darkness (Christ, Be Our Light)”
GTG 314, VT 715
“This Little Light of Mine”
various
“Together We Serve”
GTG 767
Beyond the Hymnal
“Imagine”
by John Lennon
“Be a Light”
by Josh Thompson, Thomas Rhett, Matt Dragstrem, and Josh Miller