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Peace, Friends
We are delighted to share with you the broadcast from the January 10, 2021 featuring inspirational music with special guest, baritone Kirk Lakenbauer, and organist Peter Nikiforuk, chalking the door, prayers including requests from across the country, readings, a message, and the celebration of Holy Communion.
Kirk Lackenbauer is a local baritone and former WLU voice performance student. Kirk has worked in the past with most of the musical organizations in southern Ontario singing everything from Bach to musical theater from Vancouver to France. Kirk is enjoying his semi-retirement in Port Franks on Lake Huron.
We offer these worship elements for you to use this day or at your convenience; the timeline is listed below so you can jump to the pieces that are helpful for you. Hymn numbers are for Evangelical Lutheran Worship.
Blessing on your worship!
00:00 BROADCAST INTRO:
00:35 OPENING
05:25 MUSIC 1 (453) Baptized and Set Free
07:46 CHALKING THE DOOR
From Sundays & Seasons.
11:00 MUSIC 2 The Kings (Peter Cornelius)
13:53 READING Genesis 1:1-5
14:43 MUSIC 3 I am the Lord’s (Josef Rheinberger)
19:12 READING Psalm 29
20:34 MUSIC 4 (304) Christ, When for Us You Were Baptized
22:40 GOSPEL Mark 1:4-11
24:02 MUSIC 5 (673) God, Whose Almighty Word
26:30 TEACHING
References: Blair Meeks (sermon of Baptism of Our Lord); James Wilde, Hilary Hayden, eds (Liturgical Conference; Jake Owensby (Looking for God in Messy Places); Nadia Bolz Weber (via patheos.com); Adjoa Andoh-Cunnel (parish of Herne Hill); Howard Thurman (The Work of Christmas); Van Jones (CNN coverage/commentary on Capitol Hill riot)
36:35 MUSIC 6 Christ, our Lord, to Jordan Came
– from Clavierübung part III (JS Bach)
“Merkt und hört, ihr Menschenkinder”
-from Cantata 7 (JS Bach)
44:23 PRAYERS
Resource note: ELCA worship at home
47:43 MUSIC 7 O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright (Dietrich Buxtehude)
50:54 EUCHARIST
This communion liturgy has been crafted and adapted from a variety of sources and authors, and spans several denominations and continents. References are for original script which may be altered during the live broadcast. Pieces from: Pastor Tanya Ramer of Trinity Lutheran Church in New Hamburg, ON; Bread and Wine Online (pmphillips); Louisiana Conference of the United Methodist Church: Eucharistic Prayer for the Global Pandemic (Rev Lane Cotton, Rev Juan Huertas); Scattered and Gathered (Simon Woodman); Evangelical Lutheran Worship; St. Bride’s Holy Communion (Miranda Threllfall-Holmes); Online Communion for Palm Sunday (Rev Maren C. Tirabassi); Lectionary Liturgies (Thom Shuman)
54:54 MUSIC 8 (838) Beautiful Savior & EXTRO
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