Sunday, Feb. 5 Gospel

Matthew 5:13-20

Salt and Light

¹³ “You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot.
¹⁴ “You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. ¹⁵ No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. ¹⁶ In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

The Law and the Prophets

¹⁷ “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. ¹⁸ For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter,^[a] not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. ¹⁹ Therefore, whoever breaks^[b] one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. ²⁰ For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Footnotes:

1. Matthew 5:18 Gk one iota
2. Matthew 5:19 Or annuls

Sunday, February 5 Readings

First Reading

Isaiah 58:1-12

False and True Worship

58 Shout out, do not hold back!
    Lift up your voice like a trumpet!
Announce to my people their rebellion,
    to the house of Jacob their sins.
² Yet day after day they seek me
    and delight to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness
    and did not forsake the ordinance of their God;
they ask of me righteous judgments,
    they delight to draw near to God.
³ “Why do we fast, but you do not see?
    Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?”
Look, you serve your own interest on your fast day,
    and oppress all your workers.
⁴ Look, you fast only to quarrel and to fight
    and to strike with a wicked fist.
Such fasting as you do today
    will not make your voice heard on high.
⁵ Is such the fast that I choose,
    a day to humble oneself?
Is it to bow down the head like a bulrush,
    and to lie in sackcloth and ashes?
Will you call this a fast,
    a day acceptable to the Lord?

⁶ Is not this the fast that I choose:
    to loose the bonds of injustice,
    to undo the thongs of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
    and to break every yoke?
⁷ Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
    and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover them,
    and not to hide yourself from your own kin?
⁸ Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,
    and your healing shall spring up quickly;
your vindicator^[a] shall go before you,
    the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
⁹ Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;
    you shall cry for help, and he will say, Here I am.

If you remove the yoke from among you,
    the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil,
¹⁰ if you offer your food to the hungry
    and satisfy the needs of the afflicted,
then your light shall rise in the darkness
    and your gloom be like the noonday.
¹¹ The Lord will guide you continually,
    and satisfy your needs in parched places,
    and make your bones strong;
and you shall be like a watered garden,
    like a spring of water,
    whose waters never fail.
¹² Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt;
    you shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
you shall be called the repairer of the breach,
    the restorer of streets to live in.

Footnotes:

1. Isaiah 58:8 Or vindication

Second Reading

1 Corinthians 2:1-16

Proclaiming Christ Crucified

2 When I came to you, brothers and sisters,^[a] I did not come proclaiming the mystery^[b] of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. ² For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. ³ And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. ⁴ My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom,^[c] but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, ⁵ so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.

⁶ Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to perish. ⁷ But we speak God’s wisdom, secret and hidden, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. ⁸ None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. ⁹ But, as it is written,

“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
    nor the human heart conceived,
what God has prepared for those who love him”—

¹⁰ these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. ¹¹ For what human being knows what is truly human except the human spirit that is within? So also no one comprehends what is truly God’s except the Spirit of God. ¹² Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. ¹³ And we speak of these things in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to those who are spiritual.^[d]

¹⁴ Those who are unspiritual^[e] do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ Those who are spiritual discern all things, and they are themselves subject to no one else’s scrutiny.

¹⁶ “For who has known the mind of the Lord
    so as to instruct him?”

But we have the mind of Christ.

Footnotes:

1. 1 Corinthians 2:1 Gk brothers
2. 1 Corinthians 2:1 Other ancient authorities read testimony
3. 1 Corinthians 2:4 Other ancient authorities read the persuasiveness of wisdom
4. 1 Corinthians 2:13 Or interpreting spiritual things in spiritual language, or comparing spiritual things with spiritual
5. 1 Corinthians 2:14 Or natural

Jan. 29 Bulletin

Genesee Lutheran Parish

648 W. Ash Avenue

208-285-1719

Geneseelutheranparish.blogspot.com

Fourth Sunday after Epiphany                Jan. 29, 2017

WE GATHER

Prelude

Welcome and Announcements              

Confessions and Forgiveness                  

Blessed be the holy Trinity+ one God,

who stretches out the heavens,

who sends light to the nations,

who gives breath to us all.   Amen

Let us confess our sin

In the presence of God and of one another.

Loving God,

We confess that we have turned from your way to follow our own ways.

Forgives for the times

We have spoken or acted too quickly;

We have not spoken or acted at all

We have hurt those closest to us;

We have thought more about ourselves than we ought. Turn us around, and give us a fresh start, so that we can live again as your children. Amen

Even when we have done wrong, God makes us right. Even when we have messed up, God puts us together. God’s love never runs out. God never tires of calling is beloved children.

Hear God say to you now:

Your sins are forgiven, for the sake of +Jesus Christ our Savior.  Amen

Hymn             All Are Welcome                 #641

Kyrie and Hymn of Praise                  p. 147

Prayer of the Day

Holy God, you confound the world’s wisdom in giving your kingdom to the lowly and the pure in heart. Give us such a hunger and thirst for Justice, and perseverance in striving for peace, that in our words and deeds the world may see the life of your Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord AMEN

WE HEAR GOD’S WORD

First Reading                                  Micah 6:1-8

Psalm                                             Psalms 15

Second Reading               1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Children’s Time

Gospel Acclamation                               p. 151

Gospel                                  Matthew 5:1-12

Message           

WE RESPOND TO THE WORD

Hymn               Blest Are They             #728

Apostles Creed                               p. 105

Prayers of the Church

*Each petition ends with Hear us, O God…

                                  Your mercy is great

Sharing the Peace

Offering

The Lord’s Prayer                                  p. 154

   WE ARE SENT TO MISSION

Doxology                                                 #884

Hymn:         The Peace of the Lord          #646

Call to Mission

P: Go in peace…C: Thanks be to God!

ANNOUNCMENTS

Wed Bible Study and Conversation   10 AM

Discussion on Pastor Dave’s Book Garden to Desert

Each Sunday Morning 9-9:45 am

Adult and children’s Sunday school

Please sign up downstairs to help with Worship

Today Annual Meeting Following church in the Fellowship Hall.

• Financial Report & Budget, Benevolences
• Call Committee report
• Council elections

Monday Jan. 30 7-8:30 PM Catholics and Lutherans an Ecumenical Conversation.  See Flyer in the Fellowship Hall

Feb. 11 and 12th Parsonage work party

        Feb. 11th 7:30 AM-2 PM Feb 12th 11:30-done

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Total offering for Sunday, Jan. 22nd  offering     $ 608

                     

                              Jan. 29               Feb. 5

Message:                  Dana Carter            Mark Stutzman

Organist:                  Mary Stout               Mary Stout

Worship Assistant:      Jennifer Parkins      Jennifer Parkins

Greeters:                  Byron Chilson           Byron Chilson

Reader:                                                    Linda Chilson  

Gospels for the next 4 weeks:

2/12 Matthew 5:21-37 Jesus exhorts his followers to embrace standards of righteousness that exceed legal requirements and traditional expectations.

2/19 Matthew 5:38-48 Jesus Christ is the foundation of the church and its ministry. We are God’s temple because God’s Spirit dwells in us, and we belong to Christ. Hence we are called to build wisely upon this foundation not for our own benefit but for others to experience Christ’s benefits

2/26 Matthew 17:1-9 Shortly before he enters Jerusalem, where he will be crucified, Jesus is revealed to his disciples in a mountaintop experience of divine glory called the transfiguration.

Sunday, January 29th Gospel

Matthew 5:1-12

Beatitudes

5 When Jesus^[a] saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. ² Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying:

³ “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
⁴ “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
⁵ “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
⁶ “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
⁷ “Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.
⁸ “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
⁹ “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
¹⁰ “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
¹¹ “Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely^[b] on my account. ¹² Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Footnotes:

1. Matthew 5:1 Gk he
2. Matthew 5:11 Other ancient authorities lack falsely