Notes on the Notes
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, […]
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – March 14, 2021
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 […]
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – January 31, 2021
This week’s music: “O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing” (VU #326) “O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer’s praise,The glories of my God and King, the triumphs of God’s grace. Jesus! the name that charms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease;‘Tis music in the sinner’s ears, ’tis life and health […]
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Notes on the Notes – January 24, 2021
This week’s music: “Come to My Heart” (VU #661) “Come to my heart, Lord Jesus; teach me to walk in your way.Come to my heart, Lord Jesus; come to my heart today.Give me the peace and joy that only you can bring.Come to my heart, Lord Jesus; give me a song to sing. Fill me […]
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This week’s music: “New Every Morning” (VU #405) “New every morning is the love our wakening and uprising prove;Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life, and power, and thought. New mercies each returning day hover around us while we pray;New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thought of God, new hopes of […]
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Notes on the Notes – January 10, 2021
Baptism of Jesus This week’s music: “O Splendour of God’s Glory Bright” (VU #413) “O splendour of God’s glory bright, from light eternal bringing light;O light of life, light’s living spring, true day, all days illumining; Come, Holy Sun of heavenly love, pour down your radiance from above,And to our inward hearts convey the Holy […]
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Epiphany This week’s music: “A Light is Gleaming” (VU #82) “A light is gleaming,Spreading its arms throughout the night,Living in the light.Come share its gladness,God’s radiant love is burning bright,Living in the light. When light comes pouring into the darkest place,It hurts our eyes to see the glow.Sometimes a word of hope reminds us of […]
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