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Sunday, May 4, 2008
"Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight."
-- Bob Marley, Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician
"Don't Just Do Something, Sit There"
-- Title of a book by Sylvia Boorstein
Prelude: "Fantasy" [Ned Rorem]
Donald Funk, Organist
Solo: "Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee" [Eric Thiman]
Jeffrey Vanags, Baritone
Message: "A Time to Sit Down, a Time to Stand Up"
Rev. Dr. Edward Horstmann
Offertory Anthem: "Lead, Kindly Light" [Ned Rorem]
Immanuel Choir
Postlude: "Song" [Ned Rorem]
Donald Funk, Organist
Sunday, April 27, 2008
"If the angel
deigns to come
it will be because
you have convinced
her, not by tears
but by your humble
resolved to be always
beginning; to be
a beginner."
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
Prelude: "Prelude on 'Rhosymedre'" [Ralph Vaughan Williams]
Donald Funk, Organist
Solo: "Litany to the Holy Spirit" [Peter Hurford]
Allison Lurie, soprano; Donald Funk, piano
Message: "Blessed Hesitation"
Rev. Dr. Ed Horstmann, preaching
Offertory Anthem: "O Clap Your Hands" [Ralph Vaughan Williams]
Immanuel Choir
Postlude: "The Gift of Love" (Inspired by 1 Corinthians 13)
[Hal Hopson based on English folk melody 'O Waly Waly']
Sarah Barker, violin
Bill Zito, piano
Sunday, April 20, 2008
"The Tree"
There was an old gentleman, early ninety years of age, it is said, who wanted to plant a tree. Shovel and rake in hand, he dug down into the fertile earth, and placed a fragile stem in the ground. He hoped that stem someday might bare leaves and branches and ripe fruit. Three young boys are said to have passed by. They were amused by the old man and his shovel and the stem planted in the earth. They said to each other, "We could understand if he was doing something useful. But to plant a tree at his age?" Years passed. The boys, now young men, passed by that stem, now grown into a sturdy tree. They delighted in the tree's ripe fruit which they picked and ate and savored to the last bite, but without a thought of the one who had planted the tree. Or to the One who had let the sunshine and the rain gently fall upon its leaves.
-- From Joy in the World: A Confessing Christ Newsletter
Prelude: "A Symphony of Light: Movement I" [Robert Hebble]
Donald Funk, Organist
Hand Bell Ensemble: "Processional" [Henry Purcell]
Ehren Brown, Conductor
Hand Bell Ensemble: "Gavotte" [J.S. Bach]
Ehren Brown, Conductor
Solo: "I Will Sing New Songs of Gladness" [Antonin Dvorak]
David Pettyjohn, tenor
Donald Funk, piano
Message: "God's House Guests: Imagine That!"
Rev. Dr. Ralph Ahlberg, Guest Preacher
Offertory Anthem: "The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune" [R. Vaughn Williams]
Immanuel Choir
Postlude: "Voluntary on 'Now the Green Blade Riseth'" [Michael McCabe]
Sunday, April 13, 2008
"The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament."
-- Igor Stravinsky
Prelude: "Chorale prelude on a Gregorian Chant" [Flor Peeters]
Donald Funk, Organist
Prelude: Liturgical Prelude for Easter: Te Deum "O Nata Lux de Lumine"
[Ronald Weidner]
Donald Funk, Organist
Anthem: "O Magnum Mysterium" [Morten Lauridsen]
Joanne Scattergood, soprano; Morten Lauridsen, piano
Message: "Reflections on Music"
Dr. Morten Lauridsen, Guest Preacher and Composer
Offertory Anthem: "O Nata Lux" [Morten Lauridsen]
Immanuel Choir
Postlude: "Fanfare" [Ronald Arnatt]
Donald Funk, Organist
