Dear members of God’s family at Resurrection Church,
This Sunday, our readings once again challenge us and drive us yet again into the loving arms of our merciful and gracious God. If you are able, join the congregation with your own worship at home at 10am on Sunday or otherwise engage our home worship resources in ways appropriate to your circumstances at home.
Worship Service
A pre-recorded worship service, complete with readings, Pastor Linman's sermon, prayers, and music will broadcast at 10am on Sunday, September 27, on our YouTube channel and will be available below:
Worship material for September 27, 2020
Home Worship Bulletin for September 27, 2020- Children's Bulletin for September 27, 2020
- The transcript of Pastor Linman's sermon
The following have been posted to YouTube; here is the YouTube Playlist for September 27, 2020:
- Musical Meditation: “Now”, Michael Helman
- Psalm 25:1-9, arrangement by Linda Cable Shute
- Pastor Jonathan Linman's recorded sermon
- Hymn #806: “O God, My Faithful God”
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Hymn #517: “Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Your Word”
Music Notes
Hymn of the Day: “O God, My Faithful God” #806
Text: Johann Heermann (1585-1647), tr. Catherine Winkworth (1827-1878)
Tune: Was Frag Ich Nach Der Welt, Ahauserus Fritsch (1629-1701)
As a text writer Heermann ranks with the beat of his century, some indeed regarding him as second only to Gerhardt. He had begun writing Latin poems when he was 20, and was crowned as a poet in 1608. He marks the transition from the objective standpoint of the hymn text writers of the Reformation period to the more subjective and experimental school that followed him. His hymn texts are distinguished by depth and tenderness of feeling; by firm faith and confidence in face of trial; by deep love to Christ, and humble submission to the will of God. Many of them became at once popular, passed into the hymnbooks, and still hold their place among the classics of German hymnody.
With help from the family of a young noble he tutored, Fritsch received a good education, earning his law degree from the University of Jena in 1661. He later became chancellor of the university and president of the Consistory of Rudolstadt. He wrote on numerous subjects, including antiquities, law, and religion, and collected hymns. WAS FRAG ICH NACH DER VELT, also known as “Darmstadt,” is his most popular hymn tune.
Musical Meditation: Prelude on “Now”, Michael Helman (b. 1956)
Michael Helman is currently Director of Music/Organist at Faith Presbyterian Church in Cape Coral, Florida. He is an active composer of handbell, organ, and choral music with numerous pieces pieces in print.
Today’s Meditation is based on the hymn tune, “Now” by Carl F. Schalk (b.1929) He is professor of music emeritus at Concordia University, River Forest, Illinois, where he taught church music since 1965. Honored as a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada in 1992, Schalk was editor of the Church Music journal (1966-1980), a member of the committee that prepared the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978), and a widely published composer of church music.
Choir Anthem: “To Thee, O Lord,” Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
This piece is a movement from the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom with an English translation of the text.
Sergei Rachmaninoff's emergence as a composer coincided with the renaissance of Russian sacred choral music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After a period of decline in the mid-nineteenth century, during which serious composers did not compose for the Church-by and large the result of severe bureaucratic control by Imperial Chapel censors-sacred choral music once again came to the attention of leading musicians in Russia, among them, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Balakirev, and the young Rachmaninoff. What resulted was an enormous outpouring of compositional activity, which began in the 1880s, gained strength in the 1890s, and continued until it was abruptly cut off by the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
Text:
To Thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
My God, I trust in Thee.