Notes on the Notes
Notes on the Notes – December 27, 2020
Decorations and Traditions This week’s music: “Joy is Now in Every Place” (VU #45) “Joy is now in every place,Christmas lightens every face;Now be with us, in your grace,O hear us, bless us, holy Jesus. May the star that shone that night,Making your poor stable bright,Fill our hearts with love and light,O hear us, bless […]
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Notes on the Notes – December 24, 2020
Christmas Eve “No Crowded Eastern Street” (VU #49) “No crowded eastern street, no sound of passing feet;Far to the left and far to right the prairie snows spread fair and white;Yet still to us is born tonight the child, the King of glory. No blaze of heavenly fire, no bright celestial choir,Only the starlight as […]
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – December 20, 2020
Advent 4 Love Born in the Wilderness This week’s music: “We Light This Candle” “We light this candle for Love.Await the new life within.May our hearts now live each day,So Love can find a way,So Love can find a way.” Our Advent candle-lighting song was written by Pat Mayberry (2016) and arranged by David Kai […]
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Third Sunday of Advent Joy in the Wilderness This week’s music: “We Light This Candle” “We light this candle for Joy. Await the new life within. May our hearts now live each day, So Joy can find a way, So Joy can find a way.” Our Advent candle-lighting song was written by Pat Mayberry (2016) […]
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Notes on the Notes – December 6, 2020
Second Sunday of Advent Peace in the Wilderness Communion This week’s music: “We Light This Candle” “We light this candle for Peace. Await the new life within. May our hearts now live each day, So Peace can find a way, So Peace can find a way.” Our Advent candle-lighting song was written by Pat Mayberry […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 29, 2020
First Sunday of ADVENT Hope in the Wilderness This week’s music: “We Light This Candle” “We light this candle for Hope. Await the new life within. May our hearts now live each day, So Hope can find a way, So Hope can find a way.” Our Advent candle-lighting song was written by Pat Mayberry (2016) […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 22, 2020
Reign of Christ Sunday To Live Into Christ’s Reign This Week’s Music: “Rejoice, the Lord is King” (VU #213) “Rejoice the Lord is King! Your risen Lord adore! Rejoice, give thanks and sing and triumph evermore. Lift up your heart, Lift up your voice: rejoice, again I say, rejoice! Jesus the Saviour reigns, the God […]
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – November 15, 2020
The Gifts of God Judges 4:1-7 Matthew 25:14-30 This week’s music: “Eternal, Unchanging, We Sing” (VU #223) “Eternal, Unchanging, we sing to your praise: Your mercies are endless, and righteous your ways; Your servants proclaim the renown of your name Who rules over all and is ever the same. Again we rejoice in the world […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 8, 2020
Remembrance Sunday Service of Lament and Remembrance This week’s music: “God! As with Silent Hearts” (VU #527) “God! As with silent hearts we bring to mind How hate and war diminish humankind, We pause, and seek in worship to increase Our knowledge of the things that make for peace. Hallow our will as humbly we […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 1, 2020
Homecoming Sunday The Road That We Have Travelled Communion Isaiah 43:18-25 Matthew 2:1-12 “Joyful, Joyful We Adore You” (VU #232) “Joyful, joyful we adore you God of glory, life and love; Hearts unfold like flowers before you, opening to the sun above. Melt the clouds of sin and sadness, drive the gloom of doubt away; […]
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To love, but only with God as our help? Deut. 34:1-12 Matthew 22:34-46 This week’s music: “Great is Thy Faithfulness” (VU #288) “Great is thy faithfulness, God our Creator; There is no shadow of turning with thee; Thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail not; As thou hast been thou forever wilt be. […]
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – October 18, 2020
“Giving to God What is God’s” Exodus 33: 12 – 23 Matthew 22: 15 – 22 This Week’s Music: “Come and Find the Quiet Centre” (VU #374) “Come and find the quiet centre in the crowded life we lead, Find the room for hope to enter, find the frame where we are freed: Clear the […]
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Notes on the Notes – October 11, 2020
Creation 5 Thanksgiving Communion Offering Thanks in Today’s World Deuteronomy 8:7-18 This week’s music: “We Praise You, O God” (VU #218) The title for our hymn book, Voices United, comes from the third stanza of this hymn. The words were written by Julia Cory in 1902 at the request of the organist, for a Thanksgiving service […]
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – October 4, 2020
Creation 4 To Live as God’s People Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 This week’s music: “In Christ There is No East or West” (VU #606) “In Christ there is no east or west, in him no south or north, But one great family of love throughout the whole wide earth. In him shall true hearts everywhere […]
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Creation 3 Life-giving Water Exodus 17:1–7 Phil. 2:1-13 This Week’s Music: “Crashing Waters at Creation” (VU #449) “Crashing waters at creation, ordered by the spirit’s breath, First to witness day’s beginning from the brightness of night’s death. Parting water stood and trembled as the captives passed on through, Washing off the chains of bondage – […]
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