Archive for August 2020
Livestream Worship | Sunday, August 30, 2020
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Changing Seasons Here in Madison we’re making it through the hottest week of the summer. As I sat on our back deck the other evening when the sun was lower…
Read MoreMid-Week Worship | August 26, 2020
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Who Do You Say That I Am?
Heard any good St. Peter jokes lately? So one day Ole passed away and arrived at the pearly gates of heaven. St. Peter greeted him and said, “In order to…
Read MoreLivestream Worship | Sunday, August 23, 2020
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The Man Behind the Camera | Meet Eric Holmer
You’ve seen his work. Now it’s time to get to know him.
Ever wondered who’s responsible for putting together the live-streamed worship services? Wanting to know who takes care of the Good Shepherd media department? Meet Eric Holmer, Good Shepherd’s director of media.
That’s a Wrap! | 2020 Summer Media Internship
I’m sad to see it end but excited for what the future holds. This summer with Good Shepherd has been an absolute blessing and I know that it was God’s…
Read MoreMid-Week Worship | August 19, 2020
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Bach’s Fantasia Fugue Chorale | Music Mondays
Welcome to another Music Monday at Good Shepherd, and thank you for tuning in.
Today, we hear organ music by one of the greats: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).
Bach’s “Fantasia and Fugue in G minor” is often associated with his journey to Hamburg. Many believe Bach wrote this work as an audition piece for the organist position at St. Jacobi Church. Although he did not get the position, his musicianship certainly did impress his interview panel, including Dutch organist, Johann Adam Reinken. The dark and dramatic Fantasia is composed in the popular North German style where the toccata (improvisatory-like) sections are contrasted with quiet fugal ones. The fugue is interestingly based on a lively dance-like Dutch folk tune, which some scholars believe Bach might have used in honor and/or to impress Reinken at the audition.
For most of his life, Bach worked as a dedicated Lutheran church musician and composed many chorale preludes based on familiar Lutheran hymns. One of his most beautiful chorales preludes is “Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele”, BWV 654. This hymn is an invitation to communion (Soul, adorn yourself with gladness, leave the gloomy haunts of sadness; ELW 488). Felix Mendelssohn is known to have said the following about this piece: “ ..if life had robbed me of all hope and faith, Bach’s chorale would restore them again.”
Livestream Worship | Sunday, August 16, 2020
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The End of the Law
Wrestling with the Law As we continue through Paul’s letter to the Romans, you’ll hear the same reminder tonight (Romans 10:5-15) that you heard last week from Pastor Chris (Romans 10:1-5).…
Read MoreMid-Week Worship | August 12, 2020
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Isn’t It a Miracle?
A Legendary Fish Tale In my family there are a few stories that over the years of being told have morphed into family legends. One of them involves a fishing…
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Music Monday: Which Marty Is It?
Today we meet and hear music from two important musical Marty’s in the Lutheran church; Martin Luther and Marty Haugen. Luther is most known for posting the 95 Theses in 1517, teaching the doctrine of justification by faith alone, and translating the Bible into the German vernacular, but we also largely attribute hymn-singing as we know it today to him, too! He encouraged a new style of congregational participation: the chorale—unison singing in which all the stanzas are sung to the same music and in a language (German) everyone would know.
Marty Haugen, a living composer, has provided the church with many memorable texts and tunes—over 400! Good Shepherd is probably most familiar with Marty’s “Holden Evening Prayer” liturgy and some hymns like “Shepherd Me, O God.” Enjoy learning and listening to music of two important Lutheran Marty’s.
Livestream Worship | Sunday, August 9
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