Notes on the Notes
Notes on the Notes – May 9, 2021
Mother’s Day This Week’s Music: “I Was There to Hear Your Borning Cry” (VU #644) “I was there to hear your borning cry, I’ll be there when you are old. I rejoiced the day you were baptized, to see your life unfold. I was there when you were but a child, with a faith to […]
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This week’s music: “My Shepherd is the Living Lord” (SFGP #75) “My shepherd is the living Lord, nothing therefore I need; In pastures fair, near pleasant streams you settle me to feed. You bring my wandering spirit back when I forsake your ways, And lead me for your mercy’s sake in paths of truth and […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 25, 2021
This week’s music: “Come, Children, Join to Sing” (VU #345) “Come, children, join to sing: Hallelujah! Praise to our Servant-King: Hallelujah! Let all with heart and voice, saved by God’s gracious choice, Now in this place rejoice: Hallelujah! Come, lift your hearts on high: Hallelujah! Let praises fill the sky: Hallelujah! Christ calls his people […]
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Sunday Before Earth Day This week’s music: “All Things Bright and Beautiful” (VU #291) “All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful: In love, God made them all. Each little flower that opens, Each little bird that sings, God made their glowing colours, God made their tiny wings. […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 11, 2021
What if…? This week’s music: “Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Give Thanks” (VU #179) “Hallelujah, hallelujah. Give thanks to the risen Christ. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Give praise to God’s name. Spread the good news o’er all the earth: Jesus has died and is risen. Hallelujah…. Come let us praise the living God, Joyfully sing to our Saviour. Hallelujah…” The […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 4, 2021
Easter Sunday This week’s music: “Jesus Christ is Risen Today” (VU #155) “Jesus Christ is risen today, hallelujah! Our triumphant holy day, hallelujah! Who did once upon the cross, hallelujah! Suffer to redeem our loss. Hallelujah! Hymns of praise then let us sing… Unto Christ, our heavenly King,… Who endured the cross and grave,… Sinners […]
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Good Friday “We Remember” The opening anthem by Joal Raney (2011) draws us into the Good Friday story by retelling some of the events of Jesus’ ministry and leading us to the phrase “we remember Calvary.” It incorporates the traditional hymn “When I Survey The Wondrous Cross” by Isaac Watts. Watts was deeply disappointed with […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 28, 2021
Palm Sunday This week’s music: “You Shall Be the Path” “You shall be the path that guides us, You the light that in us burns; Shining deep within all people, Yours the love that we must learn, For our hearts shall wander restless Till they safe to you return; Finding you in one another, We […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 21, 2021
Lent 5 This week’s music: “God of the Bible” (MV #28) “God of the Bible, God in the Gospel, Hope seen in Jesus, hope yet to come, You are our centre, daylight or darkness, freedom or prison, you are our home. God in our struggles, God in our hunger, Suffering with us, taking our part, […]
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Lent 4 This week’s music: “Come and Journey with a Savior” “Come and journey with a Saviour who has called us from our birth, Who has washed us in the waters, and who loved us on the earth. Come and journey, come and journey, with a Saviour who has come. We are all God’s sons […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 7, 2021
Lent 3 This week’s music: “Take Up Your Cross” (VU #561) “Take up your cross, the Saviour said, If you would my disciple be; Take up your cross with willing heart, And humbly follow after me. Take up your cross; Let not its weight fill your weak spirit with alarm; Christ’s strength shall bear your […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 28, 2021
Lent 2 To Trust, Even When it is Difficult This week’s music: “He’s Always Been Faithful to Me” “Morning by morning, I wake up to find the power and comfortOf God’s hand in mine.Season by season I watch Him, amazed,In awe of the myst’ry of His perfect ways.All I have need of His hand will […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 21
Lent 1 This week’s music: “You Shall Be the Path” “You shall be the path that guides us,You the light that in us burns;Shining deep within all people,Yours the love that we must learn,For our hearts shall wander restlessTill they safe to you return;Finding you in one another,We shall all your face discern.” The words […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 14, 2021
Transfiguration Sunday This week’s music: “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise” (VU #264) “Immortal, invisible, God only wise,In light inaccessible hid from our eyes,Most blessed, most glorious the Ancient of Days,Almighty, victorious, thy great name we praise. Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light,Nor wanting, nor wasting, thou rulest in might;Thy justice like mountains high soaring above,Thy […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 7, 2021
This week’s music: “We are One” (VU #402) The tune for this hymn was composed in 1987 by Jeeva Sam of Regina, SK, a United Church minister. The arrangement is by another United Church minister, David Kai, of Gloucester Ontario (1995) . Written especially for the music, the hymn text comes to us from a third United […]
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