Worship

Notes on the Notes – February 3, 2013

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Readings:  Jeremiah 1:4-10,  Luke 4:21-30 This week’s music: “The Greatest of These”  – This song, by Canadian composer Linnea Good, quotes from 1 Corinthians 13:1-12.   The song was used at the Burnaby Centennial Interfaith Celebration in 1992.   When speaking about this gathering, Linnea says, “Through a glass darkly; through a mirror dimly…Whether we are looking at the convolutions […]

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Notes on the Notes – January 27, 2013

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Theme: Keeping Sabbath in a non-Christian country Readings:  Nehemiah 8:1-3,5-6,8-10/Luke 4:14-21  This week’s music: “Take Time to be Holy” (VU #672) – William D. Longstaff, an English businessman, wrote this hymn at an annual Keswick Convention in response to an account of the work of Griffith Jones, a missionary in China who was reported to have been […]

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Notes on the Notes – January 20, 2013

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Theme: The faithfulness of God and the gifts of the Spirit/Celebration of our Pastoral Care Ministry Readings: Psalm 36:5-10, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 Today’s Music: “Great is Thy Faithfulness” – (VU #288) – Thomas O. Chisholm, a Methodist minister,  wrote the poem in 1923 about God’s faithfulness over his lifetime.  William Runyan set the poem to […]

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