Worship

Notes on the Notes – December 29, 2013

This week’s theme:  God with us…never absent…in our world…in the real world   This week’s readings: Isaiah 63:7-9, Hebrews 2: 10-18 This week’s music: “Good Christian Friends Rejoice” (VU #35) – “Good Christian friends, rejoice with heart and soul and voice!         Give ye heed to what we say:  News!  News!  Jesus Christ is born today.    […]

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Notes on the Notes – December 24, 2013

Christmas Eve Services 5 p.m. Family Service “O Little Town of Bethlehem” “O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie!  Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by;  yet in thy dark streets shineth the everlasting light;  the hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.” […]

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Notes on the Notes – December 22, 2013

This week’s theme: Advent 4 – Love for a Different World/Baptism This week’s readings:  Isaiah 7:10-16, Matthew 1:18-25 This week’s music: Join us at 10:15 a.m. before the service for the following carols: “What Child is This?” (VU #74) – “What child is this, who laid to rest, on Mary’s lap is sleeping?  Whom angels […]

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Notes on the Notes – December 15, 2013

This week’s theme:  Advent 3 – Joy for a Different World This week’s readings:  Isaiah 35:1-10, Matthew 11:2-11 This week’s music: Join us at 10:15 a.m. before the service for the following carols: “There’s a Voice in the Wilderness” (VU #18) –   There’s a voice in the wilderness crying, a call from the ways untrod: […]

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Notes on the Notes – December 8, 2013

This week’s theme: Advent 2 –  White Gift Sunday –  Peace for a Different World This week’s scripture: Isaiah 11:1-10, Romans 15:4-13 This week’s music: Join us at 10:15 a.m. for the following carols before the service: “All Poor Ones and Humble” (VU #68) –   “All poor ones and humble and all those who stumble, come hastening, […]

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Notes on the Notes – December 1, 2013

This week’s theme:  Advent 1 – Hope for a Different World This week’s scripture:  Isaiah 2:1-5, Matthew 24:36-44 This week’s music: Please join us before the service, at 10:15 a.m., to sing the following carols: “In the Bleak Midwinter” (VU #55) – “In the bleak mid-winter, frosty wind made moan,  earth stood hard as iron, water […]

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Notes on the Notes – November 24, 2013

This week’s theme:  Reign of Christ Sunday – How could Jesus be a King? This week’s scripture readings:               Jeremiah 23:5-6, Colossians 1:15-20 This week’s music: “This is the Day” (MV #122) – This hymn by Bruce Harding (2003) is inspired by the words of Psalm 118:24.   Harding wrote both the text and music, which was […]

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