Music for 10/8/2017

FirstLight

Gathering Song(s)

My life is in you, Lord

Opening Song

Uyaimose

Praise to the Lord the almighty

Prayer of Praise Response/Confession

Halle, halle

Offertory         

Somebody’s knockin’ at your door

Closing Song

Guide my feet

11AM

Hymns

463, How firm a foundation (FOUNATION)

730, I sing a song of the saints of God (GRAND ISLE)

846, Fight the good fight (DUKE STREET)

Confession Response

447, We are forgiven  (WE ARE FORGIVEN)

Prayers

Cambodian Lord’s Prayer

Doxology (FOREST GREEN)

Instrumental/Organ Music

Prelude: Arr. Ken Medema, How firm a foundation

Offertory:  Emma Lou Diemer, O Come let us sing unto the Lord

Perhaps her most enduring choral work, today’s anthem demonstrates the composer’s utter mastery of the late-century, post-modern musical idiom: dissonance, rhythmic drive, exuberance and pathos are all present in abundance. Diemer’s anthem, written for a high school honors chorus, conveys hints of Hindemith, Stravinsky and American musical theater. It rewards singer, accompanist, and listener equally. 
O come , let us sing unto the Lord; let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and show ourselves glad in him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are all the corners of the earth, and the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his and he made it, and his hands prepared the dry land. O come, let us worship and fall down. And come, let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker, for he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness; let the whole earth stand in awe of him. For he cometh to judge the earth, and with righteousness to judge the world, and the peoples with his truth. For he is the Lord our God.

Postlude:  Arr. Alice Jordan, Voluntary on FOUNDATION