This Sunday we glorify God in song with the annual summer hymn sing!
During worship, we will ask you to select the congregational hymns from The New Century Hymnal. Come to worship with a few of your favorite Songs of the Church in mind and perhaps we'll sing them! The organ offers five chorale preludes from across the centuries. At the Prelude, three concise settings of well-known German hymn tunes set by Max Reger greet you in the sanctuary. During the Offertory, a playful Baroque interpretation of "Now Thank We All Our God" by Georg Friedrich Kauffmann will be heard. At the Postlude, a stately fughetta (a short fugue) on the hymn "When in Our Music God Is Glorified" by Richard Proulx brings worship to a majestic close.
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Join us for a hymn sing this Sunday! The age-old tradition of coming together in song may be very different these days, but we can still be together in the Spirit: same time, different location.
Consider these words by hymn writer Rev. Fred Pratt Green, who so thoughtfully captures the spiritual dimensions to music-making in worship. When in our music God is glorified, and adoration leaves no room for pride, it is as though the whole creation cried, Hallelujah! How often, making music, we have found a new dimension in the world of sound, as worship moved us to a more profound Hallelujah! So has the church, in liturgy and song, in faith and love, through centuries of wrong, borne witness to the truth in every tongue: Hallelujah! And did not Jesus sing a Psalm that night when utmost evil strove against the Light? Then let us sing, for whom he won the fight: Hallelujah! Let every instrument be tuned for praise! Let all rejoice who have a voice to raise! And may God give us faith to sing always: Hallelujah! Amen. The prescribed reading for this Sunday, Psalm 66, asks us to "make a joyful noise to God" and "sing the glory of his name." The annual Hymn Sing this Sunday morning should suffice then! With hymnody and the scripture in mind, chorale preludes based on one very famous tune will be the course. The 1680 German hymn "Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren," often translated as "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, King of Creation," is a staple of Christian congregational singing and found in hymnals throughout the world, including The New Century Hymnal (hymn 22 "Sing Praise to God, Who Has Shaped"). Written by German Reformed Church teacher and theologian,Joachim Neander, the tune was likely based on a folk tune, first appearing in print fifteen years earlier. Numerous settings of "Lobe Den Herren" have been written over the centuries by namely Lutheran organ composers such as J.S. Bach, Johann Walther, and Hugo Distler. This Sunday morning, we'll hear 20th century settings by German Neo-Baroque composer Helmut Walcha and Paul Manz, the Cantor Emeritus of Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. At the outdoor 6:00 p.m. Dinner Church service, we'll sing songs interspersed with Jane Anne's creative retelling of the joyful Psalm 66. Bobby and Blair will lead the way and be joined by bassist Peter Strening and Michael Hamilton on percussion. |
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