Dear members of God’s family at Resurrection Church,
This Sunday, we learn from our readings that despite words of judgment, there are also prevailing words of grace because of Christ, the stone rejected by builders, but our cornerstone. 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, October 4, on our YouTube channel and will be available below:
Worship material for October 4, 2020
Home Worship Bulletin for October 4, 2020- Children's Bulletin for October 4, 2020
- The transcript of Pastor Linman's sermon
The following have been posted to YouTube; here is the YouTube Playlist for October 4, 2020:
- Musical Meditation: “Rhosemedre”, Ralph Vaughn Williams
- Psalm 80:7-15
- Pastor Jonathan Linman's recorded sermon
- Hymn #645: “Christ is Made the Sure Foundation”
- Hymn #343: “My Song is Love Unknown”
Music Notes
Hymn of the Day: “Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation” #645
Text: Latin hymn, c. 7th cent.; tr. John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
Tune: WESTMINSTER ABBEY, Henry Purcell (1802-1868)
John M. Neale's life is a study in contrasts: born into an evangelical home, he had sympathies toward Rome. In perpetual ill health, he was incredibly productive; of scholarly temperament, he devoted much time to improving social conditions in his area. Often ignored or despised by his contemporaries, he is lauded today for his contributions to the church and hymnody. Neale contributed to church music especially by translating Greek and Latin hymns into English. Because a number of Neale's translations were judged unsingable, editors usually amended his work. Neale claimed no rights to his texts and was pleased that his translations could contribute to hymnody as the "common property of Christendom."
Henry Purcell was perhaps the greatest English composer who ever lived, though he only lived to the age of thirty-six. Purcell's first piece was published at age eight when he was also a chorister in the Chapel Royal. When his voice changed in 1673, he was appointed assistant to John Hingston, who built chamber organs and maintained the king's instruments. In 1674 Purcell began tuning the Westminster Abbey organ and was paid to copy organ music. Given the position of composer for the violins in 1677, he also became organist at Westminster Abbey in 1679 (at age twenty) and succeeded Hingston as maintainer of the king's instruments (1683). Purcell composed music for the theater and for keyboards, provided music for royal coronations and other ceremonies, and wrote a substantial body of church music, including eighteen full anthems and fifty-six verse anthems.
Musical Meditation: Prelude on the Hymn Tune “Rhosemedre”
Ralph Vaughn Williams (1872-1958)
Although best known in this original version for solo organ, Rhosymedre is also well known as an orchestral arrangement by Arnold Foster. Ralph Vaughan Williams used the hymn tune as the basis of the second movement of his organ composition Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes. Rhosymedre is the name of a hymn tune written by the 19th-century Welsh Anglican priest John David Edwards. Edwards named the tune after the village of Rhosymedre in the County Borough of Wrexham, Wales, where he was the vicar from 1843 until his death in 1885. The hymn tune is seven lines long, appears in a number of hymnals and is sung to a variety of texts. One such text is that of today’s second hymn, “My Song Is Love Unknown” which we sing today in another popular setting, “LOVE UNKNOWN” by John Ireland.