Notes on the Notes
Notes on the Notes – May 8, 2016
This week’s theme: Ascension Sunday “As one door closed…a new one opens.” This week’s scripture readings: Luke 24: 44-53 Acts 1: 1-10a This week’s music: “All Things Bright and Beautiful” (VU #291) Those who have recently seen the local production of The Vicar of Dibley will have new memories of this old classic! The text, […]
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This Week’s Theme: “Healing old wounds… an unlikely woman can be ‘saved’… and play hostess.” This Week’s Scripture Readings: Acts 16:9-15 This Week’s Music: “O Christ, in Thee My Soul” (VU #630) “O Christ, in thee my soul hath found, and found in thee alone; The peace, the joy I sought so long, the […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 24, 2016
This Week’s Theme: Earth Day This Week’s Scripture Readings: Genesis 1:1-31 Psalm 148 This Week’s Music: “In the Dawn of the Ages” “In the dawn of the ages God created the earth. Every living creature found in God its birth, From the birds in the sky to the deer in the wood. She looked all […]
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This Week’s Theme: Peter Begins His Ministry This Week’s Scripture Reading: Acts 9:36-43 This Week’s Music: “In the Bulb There is a Flower” (VU #703) “In the bulb there is a flower; in the seed, an apple tree; In cocoons, a hidden promise: butterflies will soon be free! In the cold and snow of winter […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 10, 2016
This week’s theme: This week’s scripture readings: Acts 9:1-20 & John 21:15-19 This week’s music: “Jesus, Stand Among Us” (VU #396) “Jesus, stand among us in your risen power; Let this time of worship be a hallowed hour. Breathe the Holy Spirit into every heart; Bid the fears and sorrows from each soul depart. Lead […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 3, 2016
This week’s theme: Why the Christian church exists at all This week’s scripture reading: Acts 5:27-32 This week’s music: “Now the Green Blade Rises” (VU #186) “Now the green blade rises from the buried grain, Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain; Love lives again, that with the dead has been: Love is […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 25, 2016 – Good Friday
Hungering and Thirsting for Salvation “Beneath the Cross of Jesus” (VU #135) “Beneath the cross of Jesus I fain would take my stand: the shadow of a mighty rock within a weary land, a home within the wilderness, a rest upon the way, from the burning of the noon-tide heat and the burden of the […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 28, 2016 – Easter Sunday
Hungering and Thirsting for Good News This week’s scripture readings: Acts 10: 34-36 Psalm 118: 23-24 Luke 24: 1-12 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 […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 20, 2016 – Palm Sunday
Hungering and Thirsting for Living Water This week’s scripture readings: Luke 19:28-40, Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29 This week’s music: “All Who are Thirsty” (MV #4) “All who are thirsty All who are weak Come to the fountain Dip your heart in the streams of life Let the pain and the sorrow Be washed away In the […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 13, 2016
Lent 5 Hungering and Thirsting for Community This week’s scripture readings: Psalm 126, Philippians 3:4b-14 This week’s music: “Part of the Family” (VU #395) “Come in, come in and sit down, You are a part of the family. We are lost and we are found, And we are a part of the family. You know […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 6, 2016
Lent 4 Hungering and Thirsting for a Place at the Table This week’s scripture readings: 2 Corinthians 5: 16-21, Luke 15: 1-3, 11b-32 This week’s music: “Softly and Tenderly” “Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, Calling for you and for me; See, on the portals He’s waiting and watching, Watching for you and […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 28, 2016
Lent 3 Hungering and Thirsting for Generational Connection This week’s scripture readings: Psalm 63:1-8 Luke 13:1-9 This week’s music: “Jesus Loves Me” (VU #365) “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so, Little ones to him belong, in his love we shall be strong. Yes, Jesus loves me! […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 21, 2016
Lent 2 Hungering and thirsting for Sanctuary/Home This week’s scripture readings: Psalm 27 Philippians 3: 17-4:1 This week’s music: “What is the place” (SFGP 70) “What is the place where we are meeting? Only a house, the earth its floor, Walls and a roof sheltering people, Windows for light, an open door. Yet it becomes […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 14, 2016
Lent 1 Hungering and Thirsting for the Word This week’s scripture readings: Romans 10: 8b-13, Luke 4: 1-13 This week’s music: “Tell Me the Stories of Jesus” (VU #357) “Tell me the stories of Jesus I love to hear, things I would ask him to tell me if he were here: scenes by the wayside, […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 10 – Ash Wednesday
“What Wondrous Love is This” (VU #147) “What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul, What wondrous love is this, O my soul! What wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss To bear the dreadful curse for my soul, for my soul, To bear the dreadful curse for my […]
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