13Th Sunday After Pentecost August 30, 2020
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Virtual Worship Service 13th Sunday after Pentecost August 30, 2020 Order of Worship Centering Prelude: The burning bush - Herman Berlinski Welcome Call to Worship Hymn: All hail the power of Jesus’ name (UMH 154) Opening Prayer Earth Care Hymn: Touch the earth lightly (stanza 1) Time with Young Disciples Hymn: Carry the flame (Refrain only) Prayers of the People The Lord’s Prayer Gospel: Matthew 16:21-28 Epistle: Romans 12:9-21 Hymn: We shall overcome (UMH 533) Sermon: Overcome evil with AGAPE Duet: The gift of love - Hal Hopson Offertory Prayer Presentation Hymn: Praise God, from whom all blessings flow (UMH 95 alt.) Invitation to Community Hymn: Let all creation dance Benediction Postlude: Darwall’s 148th - Percy Whitlock All music used with permission: license #A-726329 One License.net. This document includes today’s scripture, hymns, and Music Note. www.faithatfirst.com www.facebook.com/faithatfirst/ Today’s Worship Leadership Preacher: Rev. Grace Imathiu Liturgists: Rev. Jane Cheema & Rev. Bonny Roth Reader: Mike McGuire Earth Care: Jonathan Nieuwsma Time with Young Disciples: Colin McDonald Invitation to Community: Mary Taylor-Johnson Minister of Music & Organist: Brian Schoettler Music Intern: Isza Wu Duet: Jake & Savannah Hemminger Guitar: Jake Hemminger Matthew 16:21-28 (NRSV) Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “God forbid it, Lord! This must never happen to you.” But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; for you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.” Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life? “For the Son of Man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay everyone for what has been done. Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.” Romans 12:9-21 (NRSV) Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor. Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; do not claim to be wiser than you are. Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” No, “if your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them something to drink; for by doing this you will heap burning coals on their heads.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Music Note Today’s prelude is an excerpt from a musical setting of the Hebrew scripture about Moses and the burning bush by Jewish composer Herman Berlinski. Born in Leipzig, Germany, Berlinski went on to study composition with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen and served as organist at Temple Emanu-El in New York City. In The burning bush (1956), Berlinski constructs a piece around a rhythmic motive based on God’s reply to Moses: “I AM WHO I AM.” All hail the power of Jesus’ name is paired with the tune Coronation, the oldest American hymn tune that is still widely used – published just six years after the signing of the US Constitution. The text was penned by Edward Perronet, an itinerant Methodist preacher. In the final stanza, we’re reminded that as we sing at home, we join the “everlasting song” of heaven in praise of Christ the Savior. We shall overcome is recognized as the most significant protest anthem of our time and echoes the call from Romans to “overcome evil with good.” While the UMH classifies it as an African American spiritual, it is likely based on the composition I’ll overcome someday by African American, Methodist minister Charles Albert Tindley. The gift of love is a poetic setting of I Corinthians 13 by composer Hal H. Hopson. First published in 1972, it has become Hopson’s most popular composition and appears as a hymn in the UMH as No. 408. John Darwall originally composed a tune to be paired with Psalm 148 that was later paired with Charles Wesley’s text Rejoice, the Lord is King. Today we sing it to a text by Brian Wren - the author of our own Carry the flame. The postlude is an arrangement of Darwall’s tune by English organist Percy Whitlock. Whitlock studied with Stanford and Vaughan Williams and this hymn prelude artfully fuses the contrapuntal with lush harmonies of the 1920s. Brian Schoettler, DMA Minister of Music & Organist Praise God, from whom all blessings flow ∀ 1 ˙ ˙ ˙ œ œ œ % 1 ˙ ˙œ œ œ œ ˙ ˙ ˙ ˙ œ œ œ œ Praise God, from wh˙om all bl˙ess - ings flow; praise God. all crea-tuœres ˙ œ > ∀ 1 ˙ œ œ œ œ ˙ ˙ ˙ ˙ œ œ œ œ 1 œ ˙ 5 ∀ ˙ ˙ ˙ œ œ œ % ˙ ˙ ˙ ˙ œ ˙ œ ˙ ˙ here be - low; praise God for all that love has ˙ > ∀ ϖ ˙ ˙ œ œ œ œ ˙ ˙ ˙ ˙ œ ˙ ˙ 9 ∀ ˙ œ œ œ ˙ ˙ % ˙ ˙ œ œ œ œ œ ˙ ˙ ϖ ϖ ϖ done; Cre - a - tor, Christ, and Spir - it, One. A - men. ˙ ˙ œ œ œ œ ˙ œ œ ϖ ϖ ϖ > ∀ ˙ œ œ œ ˙ ˙ œ œ œ ϖ ϖ ϖ Words: Thomas Ken, 1674; adapt. William B. Abernethy Adapt. © 1995 The Pilgrim Press Old 100th Music: Attr. to Louis Bourgeois, 1551 Let all creation dance ∀ ∀ 3 œ ˙− œ œ œ % 3 œ œ œ œ œ ˙− œ œ œ œ œ ˙− œ Let all cre - a - tion dance in en - er - gies sub - lime, as Our own a - maz - ing earth with sun - light, cloud, and storms, and Lift heart and soul and voice: in Christ all prai - ses meet, and ˙− œ œ > ∀ 3 œ œ œ œ œ − œ œ œ œ œ ˙− œ ∀ 3 œ œ œ œ œ œ ˙− œ 5 ∀ œ ∀ œ œ œ ˙ ˙ ˙− œ ˙ ˙ % œ œ œ œ ∀œ œ œ œ ˙− œ ˙− œ ˙ ˙ or - der turns with chance, un - fold - ing space and time; for na - ture's life's a - bun - dant growth in love - ly shapes and forms is made for nat - ure shall re - joice as all is made com - plete. In hope be œ œ œ > ∀ œ œ œ ∀œ œ œ ˙ ∀˙ ˙− œ ˙ ˙ ∀ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ ˙− œ 10 ∀ ∀ ˙− œ œ œ œ œ ˙ ˙ ˙− % ˙− œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ ˙ œ œ ˙− art in gœlo - ry grows, and new - ly shows God's mind and heart. praise, a frag - ile whole, and from its soul heaven's mu - sic plays. strong, all life be - friend, and kind - ly tend cre - a - tion's song. œ œ > ∀ ˙− œ œ œ œ œ œ ∀œ œ œ ˙ ˙ ˙− ∀ ˙− œ œ œ ˙ ˙− Text: Brian Wren (b. 1936) © 1996 Hope Publishing Co. 66 66 88 Tune: John Darwall (1731-1789) DARWALL'S 148th.