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  • Description: ...ils", as part of the series "Credo", on the occasion of Celebration of 30 years of John Bryson as Director of Music and Fine Arts, Trinity Sunday, Pentecost II, at Christ Community Church, Spring Lake, MI. Scripture references: Isaiah 6:1, Revelation 1:17....
  • Text: ...God: The Feeling That Remains Where the Concept Fails From the series: Credo A Celebration of the Music of the Church and Thirty Years of John G. Bryson As Director of Music and Fine Arts Isaiah 6:1; Revelation 1:17 Richard A. Rhem Christ Community Church Spring Lake, Michigan Trin...
God: The Feeling That Remains Where the Concept Fails

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  • Text: The artist uses the same instrument to create music, melody, harmony. And I can also sense that the execution of a musical score unfolds - the immediate moment following on what has preceded and flowing into what follows.
Divine Improvisation - Human Wonder

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  • Text: ...I mentioned Arie’s funeral in December during Advent. He had become fascinated with Greek Orthodox liturgy and the music of worship of the Eastern Rite. And the funeral service began with a long prelude of entrance music and then the service ensued. The point at which we would co...
My God, ...Why?

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  • Text: ...I’ll spend probably three hours tonight on next Sunday morning. I have the pieces from Mr. Bryson, I know what music will be involved and whether there’ll be dance or whatever, and then I will simply live into that experience, trying to weave it together in such a way that it has a cert...
The Awe of Worship

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  • Text: ...(He did the Hebrew parts.) In my little meditation, I said, “One of my favorite musicals is Fiddler on the Roof, and when I first experienced it as a musical, I loved it. © 2013 Kaufman Interfaith Institute and Grand Valley State University Religion: Response to Mystery Rich...
Religion: Response To Mystery Emerging Naturally

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  • Text: ... this theological journal and we went out to eat and then someone said, "There is an Irish tavern where they sing Irish music," and so we all went. In the back room, filled with people, all these Irishmen. I didn't say I was Dutch; I just sort of slipped into a booth. They br...
Christ Community: A People Who Belong

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  • Text: ... a martyr; he was, rather, the Lamb of God destined before the foundations of the world to die for the sin of the world. The music we have just heard sung by the choir is lovely, © Grand Valley State University   Harmless Religion: Loss of Soul Richard A. Rhem Page 2   but the...
Harmless Religion: Loss of Soul

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  • Text: ...That is the central paradigm of the Christian faith, is it not? In the appointments of the sanctuary, the mood of the music, the tone of the liturgy, the stark contrast is brought to expression. Now, here is a question for you: What is the relationship of Lent to Easter, of the darkness to ...
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  • Text: ...Let me say just a couple of things this morning because it is a day not for heavy deliberation, but for joyful music and song. But let me say this - I am more convinced than ever that what the Gospel is about, tidings of joy, is this world, here and now, human existence in this present situ...
Too Good to Be True

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  • Text: ...es up with me and here I am, trying to preach about it again. But, let me contrast for you the story as it was dramatically, musically, instrumentally set forth, and the account which we read a moment ago in John's Gospel. The drama, the pageant, of course, is from the birth stories of...
This Is Our Story

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  • Text: ...He must realize that, like a gypsy, he lives on the boundary of an alien world, a world that is deaf to his music and is indifferent to his hopes as it is to his suffering or his crimes. We say we are created by God. Well, wait a minute. What if that isn't true? If that is not true, th...
Human Community in the Image of God

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  • Text: ...He must realize that like a gypsy, he lives on the boundary of an alien world, a world that is deaf to his music, and as indifferent to his hopes as it is to his sufferings or his crimes." That is honest and hard hitting, and clear eyed. If there is no one home in the universe, then we...
A Healthy Perspective - But Is This All There Is?