Notes on the Notes
Notes on the Notes – May 26, 2024
Second Sunday of Pentecost This week’s music: “Praise With Joy the World’s Creator” (VU #312) “Praise with joy the world’s Creator, God of justice, love, and peace, Source and end of human knowledge, God whose grace shall never cease. Celebrate the Maker’s glory, Power to rescue and release. Praise to Christ who feeds the hungry, Frees […]
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Notes on the Notes – May 19, 2024
Pentecost Sunday This week’s music: “Oh, a Song Must Rise” (MV #142) “Oh, a song must rise for the spirit to descend Oh, a song must rise once again Singing out God’s praises and glory, The faithful voices blend, Oh, a song must rise for the spirit to descend. From […]
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Notes on the Notes – May 12, 2024
Seventh Sunday of Easter/Mother’s 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 – May 5, 2024
Sixth Sunday of Easter This week’s music: “When We Come Together” “When we come together gladly Our community grows strong. When we meet to tell our story, When we join to sing our song, We are celebrating friendship, We are building bonds of peace; Pass a vision to each other; Let God’s spirit never cease. […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 28, 2024
Fifth Sunday of Easter 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. Jesus is Lord of all the earth, Firstborn of all creation. Hallelujah… Spread the good news o’er all the earth: Jesus has died and is risen. Hallelujah…. We […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 21, 2024
Fourth Sunday of Easter This week’s music: “God of Freedom, God of Justice” (VU #700) God of freedom, God of justice, you whose love is strong as death, you who saw the dark of prison, you who knew the price of faith: touch our world of sad oppression with your Spirit’s healing breath. Rid the earth […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 14, 2024
Third Sunday of Easter 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 […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 7, 2024
Second Sunday of Easter This Week’s Music: “This is the Day That God Has Made” (VU #175) “This is the day that God had made! Rejoice! Rejoice, and be exceeding glad! This is the day that God has made! Rejoice! Rejoice! Hallelujah! Christ has conquered death at last, Left the tomb that held him fast! Gone […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 31, 2024 – Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday This week’s music: “Joy Comes With the Dawn” (VU #166) “Joy comes with the dawn; Joy comes with the morning sun; Joy springs from the tomb and scatters the night with her song, Joy comes with the dawn. Weeping may come; Weeping may come in the night, when dark shadows cloud our sight. […]
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Notes on the Notes – Good Friday – March 29, 2024
Good Friday Today’s music has been chosen to enhance the Passion narrative of Jesus’ journey to the cross. “We Remember” The opening anthem by Joel 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 […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 24, 2024
Palm Sunday This week’s music: “He Came Riding on a Donkey” (VU #124) “He came riding on a donkey, he came riding into town; Slow and easy kind of lowly he came riding with the dawn. His disciples walked beside him, staying close, a little shy; Not too sure where he would guide them, on to […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 17, 2024
Lent 5 This week’s music: “I am the Dream” (MV #106) “I am the dream and you the dreamer, I am the song and you are the rhyme. You are the tune sung in every silence. You are the now in the endless stream of time. I am the bell and you the silence. You […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 10, 2024
Fourth Sunday in Lent This week’s music: “Come, Let Us Sing of a Wonderful Love” (VU #574) “Come, let us sing of a wonderful love, Tender and true, tender and true, Out of the heart of the Father above, Streaming to me and to you Wonderful love, wonderful love Dwells in the heart of the Father […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 3, 2024
Third Sunday in Lent 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. Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 25, 2024
Second Sunday in Lent This week’s music: “Take Time to Be Holy” (VU #672) “Take time to be holy, speak oft with your Lord; Abide in him always, and feed on his word. Make friends of God’s children, help those who are weak, Forgetting in nothing his blessing to seek. Take time to be holy, let […]
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