Getting Up the Hill

Zach Martinez will preach from Romans 5:1-5.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“All Creatures of our God and King”
Music: Lasst uns erfreuen from Geistliche Kirchengesange, 1623; arr. Larry Shackley; ©2012 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“God Is Here Among Us”
Text: German; Gerhard Tersteegen, Geistliches Blumengärtlein, 1729; trans. The Hymnal, 1940, alt.; Music: Joachim Neander, Alpha and Omega, Glaub- und Liebesübung, 1680

“Praise Be to God”
Text: Nobuaki Hanaoka, Hymns from the Four Winds, 1983, ©1980 Nobuaki Hanaoka; Music: Japanese traditional; transcr. ©1983 Abingdon Press (admin. Music Services); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

Evening Prayer- Call to intercession
From: Take Our Moments and Our Days: An Anabaptist Prayer Book, 2010, developed at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and adapt. for Voices Together, 2020; alt.

“God, Be the Love”
Text: based on the “Prayer of St. Patrick”, 5th c.; Richard Bruxvoort Colligan; Music: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan; ©2004 This Here Music / Worldmaking.net; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Jesus Loves Me”
Text: Anna B Warner, 1859; Music: William B Bradbury, The Golden Shower, 1862

“Alleluia”
Text: Hebrew traditional, ca. 4th c. BC; translit. Greek, ca. 3rd c. BC; Music: from the singing of George Mxadana; transcr. John L Bell, transcr. ©1990 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“This Is My Song”
Text: stanzas 1, 2 Lloyd Stone, ©1934, 1962 Lorenz Publishing Company; stanza 3 Georgia Harkness, ©1964 Lorenz Publishing Company; Music: Jean Sibelius, 1899; arr. The Hymnal, ©1933, 1961 Presbyterian Board of Christian Education; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“O Healing River”
Text: Frances Minkoff; Music: Fred Hellerman; ©1964 (renewed) Appleseed Music, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Nautilus Op. 55 No. 7” from Sea Pieces
Music: Edward MacDowell, 1898

“In the Bulb There is a Flower”
Text & Music: Natalie Sleeth, 1985; ©1986 Hope Publishing Co; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Blest Be the Tie That Binds”
Text: John Fawcett, Hymns Adapted to the Circumstances of Public Worship, 1782, alt.; Music: Johann G Nägeli, Christliches Gesangbuch, 1828; arr. Lowell Mason, The Psaltery, 1845

To Whom do We Belong?

On Palm Sunday, Zach Martinez will preach from Luke 19:28-40.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“God So Loved the World” from The Crucifixion
Text & Music: John Stainer, 1887

“You Are Salt for the Earth”
Text & Music: Marty Haugen, 1985, Gather, 1988; ©1986 GIA Publications, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Hosanna! Hosanna!”
By Laura Jaquith Bartlett, 2009

“You, Lord, Are Both Lamb and Shepherd”
Text: Sylvia G Dustan, ©1991 GIA Publications, Inc.; Music: French traditional, Chansons populaires des provinces de France, 1860; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“God of the foolish cross”
By Joanna Harader, 2012

“Let the Children Come to Me”
Text: James V Marchionda; Music: James V Marchionda; arr. Michael K Runyan, alt.; ©1982 World Library Publications; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“There Is More Love Somewhere”
Text & Music: African American traditional

“Open My Eyes (Abre mis ojos)”
Text: Jesse Manibusan; Spanish trans. stanzas 1-3, 5 Rufino Zaragoza, OFM, ©1988, 1998, 1999 Jesse Manibusan and Rufino Zaragoza, OFM, Spirit and Song (admin. OCP); Music: Jesse Manibusan, ©1988, 1998, 1999 Jesse Manibusan, Spirit and Song (admin. OCP); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through CCLI License #200093153

“Let Justice Roll Like a River”
Text: Marty Haugen, based on Amos 5:21-24, 8; 4; Micah 4:3-4, 6; 8; Joel 2:12-14; Music: Marty Haugen; ©1991 GIA Publications, Inc.; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“All Glory, Laud, and Honor”
Text: Theodulph of Orleans, “Gloria, laus, et honor,” ca. 820; trans. John M Neale, The Hymnal Noted, 1851; Music: Melchior Teschner, 1613, Ein andächtiges Gebet ..., 1615

Blood on My Hands

Zach Martinez will preach from Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“The Lord is My Light”
Text: based on Psalm 27:1, 5, 14, Lillian Bouknight; Music: Lillian Bouknight; ©1980 Savgos Music, Inc.; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Let There Be Light”
Text: William M Vories, 1908, Advocate of Peace, 1909, alt.; Music: Charles H C Zeuner, American Harp, 1832

“We gather in preparation”
By William B Oden, 1976

“We Shall Walk through the Valley”
Text: African American spiritual; Music: African American spiritual; adapt. William Appling, ©1970 World Library Publications, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Jesus Loves Me”
Text: Anna B Warner, 1859; Music: William B Bradbury, The Golden Shower, 1862

“Gloria”
Text: Latin; Luke 2:14; Music: Jacques Berthier, ©1979 Les Presses de Taizé (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“They That Wait Upon the Lord”
Text & Music: Stuart Hamblen (chorus of song “Teach me, Lord, to Wait”); ©1953, Renewed 1981 Hamblen Music Co.; Used by permission.; Reprinted and streamed with permission through CCLI License #20093153

“If the War Goes On”
Text: John L Bell and Graham Maule; Music: John L Bell; acc. Marilyn Houser Hamm, 2003; ©1991, 2001, 2002 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“And I Will Raise You Up”
Text: based on Psalm 91; Michael Joncas, alt.; Music: Michael Joncas; ©1979 OCP; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“O Healing River”
Text: Frances Minkoff; Music: Fred Hellerman; ©1964 (renewed) Appleseed Music, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

Who Wouldn't Jesus Bless?

Zach Martinez, pastor of Sojourn Mennonite Church, will preach from Luke 6:17-26.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“Prelude in E major, BWV 854 (from WTC Book 1)”
Composed by J. S. Bach, ca. 1722

“Give Me Jesus”
Based on the traditional spiritual; arr. John Purifoy; ©2002 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Poor Wayfaring Stranger”
Traditional Spiritual; arr. Mark Hayes; ©1998 Glory Sound, a division of Shawnee Press, Inc.; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Brethren, We Have Met to Worship”
Text: George Askins, Social and Camp-Meeting Hymns for the Pious, 1817, alt.; Music: The Columbian Harmony, 1825

“Some of us are exhausted”
By Joanna Harader, 2012

“O Prince of Peace”
Text & Music: Javanese; Saptojoadi (Indonesia); Text trans: Lawrence M Yoder, Mennonite World Conference International Songbook, 1990; ©1978 Mennonite World Conference; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Gracious God, when there is nothing we can say”
Presbyterian Church (USA), Book of Common Worship, 2018

“Jesus Loves Me”
Text: Anna B Warner, 1859; Music: William B Bradbury, The Golden Shower, 1862

“The Boys and Girls and Jesus”
By Ella K Lindvall, Read-Aloud Bible Stories, Volume 1. Moody Publishers, 1986

“Kum Ba Yah”
Text & Music: African American spiritual

“I Want Jesus to Walk with Me”
Text & Music: African American spiritual

“Blessed Are the Persecuted”
Text: Tonga; based on Matthew 5; anon.; adapt. Esther C Bergen, ©1990 Mennonite World Conference; Music: Tonga traditional; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Blessed Assurance”
Tune: Assurance by Phoebe P. Knapp; arr. Pepper Choplin; ©2012 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“We Are People of God’s Peace”
Text: based on Menno Simons, Reply to False Accusations, 1552; stanzas 1, 3, 4 vers. David Augsburger, 1978; adapt. Esther Bergen, 1990; Music: Johann Horn, Ein Gesangbuch der Brüder im Behemen und Merherrn, 1544; rev. In Catholicum Hymnologium Germanicum, 1584; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“O Healing River”
Text: Frances Minkoff; Music: Fred Hellerman; ©1964 (renewed) Appleseed Music, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

Good Friday 2020

Pastors from across Mountain States Mennonite Conference contributed to a Good Friday podcast. It includes scripture, reflections, and music to help us remember Jesus’ death on the cross and burial.

God's Kin-dom

Pastor Zach Martinez of Sojourn Mennonite preached from Matthew 20:1-16. Does the Kin-dom of God reflect the meritocratic organization of western culture? Or does it look like something else entirely? The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard offers a glimpse of how God’s Kin-dom ought to look and how God’s people ought to respond.

To be Clay in the Potter's Hand

Zach Martinez preaches from Jeremiah 18:1-10. In 2017, the Washington Post reported that, given declining trends in church attendance, the mainline Protestant Church has 23 years until its attendance is effectively zero. How does the Church confront this information with hope? Is it possible that hope doesn't mean everything turns out "okay"?