October 30
Solomon’s Wisdom
Year 1 ( 2022 – 2023 )
Text:
1 Kings 3:4-9, (10-15), 16-28
Summary:
Solomon prays for wisdom. The king shows wisdom in a dispute between two women.
Call to Worship
One: Come, and seek the ways of Wisdom…
All: Wisdom calls from the heights,
and takes her stand at the crossroads,
crying out to all people.
One: Come, and seek the ways of Wisdom…
All: “Come and live!” she cries out,
for Wisdom is better than jewels,
and nothing else we desire could compare.
One: Come, and seek the ways of Wisdom…
All: Before the Earth was formed,
before the mountains and the hills, the skies and seas,
God made Wisdom first, before anything else.
One: Come, and seek the ways of Wisdom…
All: And Wisdom played – God’s daily delight.
And Wisdom rejoiced – delighting in humanity.
And still Wisdom calls in the streets: “Come and live!”
Congregational Song Suggestions
“Ask the Complicated Questions”
VT 440
“Come and Seek the Ways of Wisdom”
GTG 174, VT 196
“God of Grace and God of Glory“
ELW 705, GTG 307, VT 716
“In The Beginning”
VT 270
“O Come, O Come Emmanuel”
ELW 257, GTG 88, VT 210
“O Holy Wisdom, Pour Forth Compassion”
Delores Dufner
Available from And Every Breath a Song at giamusic.com
*Note: this hymn can be sung with HEALING RIVER, as in “O Healing River” below.
“Wisdom Cries Out in the Streets”
Chris Shelton
Available from Sing No Empty Alleluias at giamusic.com
Beyond the Hymnal
“Small Enough”
Nichole Nordeman
“The Perfect Wisdom of our God”
Keith Getty and Stuart Townend
(Might it be more scriptural to replace the “he/his” language of this text with “she/her”?)