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Notes on the Notes – January 22, 2017
This week’s theme: The Intersection of the Arts and Faith This week’s scripture readings: Exodus 31:1-11 2 Samuel 6: 14-22 This week’s music: “When Long Before Time” (VU #248) “When long before time and the worlds were begun, When there was no earth and no sky and no sun, And all was deep silence and night […]
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This week’s theme: Baptism of Jesus – Open Hands, Open Hearts! This week’s scripture Is. 42:1-9 Acts 10:34-43 Matt. 3:13-17 This week’s music: “She Flies On” (VU #380) “She comes sailing on the wind, her wings flashing in the sun; On a journey just begun, she flies on. And in the passage of […]
Continue ReadingThe Season of Epiphany
The Christian faith has a special relationship with time. Just as our lives are measured in days, weeks, and years, so too is the story of our relationship with God. The rhythm of our week is designed to culminate in the Sunday Sabbath, and week by week, Sunday by Sunday, we build upon the story […]
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – January 8, 2017
This week’s theme: A New Year – Same Old Star? This week’s scripture readings: Isaiah 60:1-6 Matthew 2:1-12 This week’s music: “We Three Kings of Orient Are” “We three kings of Orient are Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain, Following yonder star. Born a king on Bethlehem’s plain, Gold […]
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Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – January 1, 2017
This week’s theme: It’s a new dawn. It’s a new day. It’s a new life. This week’s readings: Ecclesiastes 3: 1-13 Revelation 21: 1-6a This week’s music: “The Race That Long in Darkness Pined” (VU #879) “The race that long in darkness pined have see a glorious light; The people dwell in day, who dwelt […]
Continue ReadingChristmas Day Service – 2016
Decorations and Traditions Holly Garland – God promises eternal life John 3: 16 NRSV 16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. Background to the Holly Garland Holly is evergreen, a symbol of eternal life obtained […]
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – December 25, 2016
Christmas Day Readings: Isaiah 35:1-2 Zechariah 9:9-10 Isaiah 60:13-15 John 1: 1-18 “O Ancient Love” (VU #17) “O ancient love, processing through the ages; O hidden love, revealed in human form; O promised love, the dream of seers and sages: O living Love, within our hearts be born, O living Love, within our hearts be […]
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – December 24, 2016
Family Communion Service 5:30 p.m. “O Come, All Ye Faithful” (VU #60) “Light of the World” “The world waits for the miracle. The heart longs for a little bit of hope. Oh, come. Oh come, Emmanuel… And can you hear the angels singing? Glory to the light of the world. It is here… For all […]
Continue ReadingReadings and Meditation from the Longest Night/Blue Christmas Service 2016
Isaiah 40: 1-2, 26-31 1“Comfort, oh comfort my people,” says your God. 2“Speak softly and tenderly to Jerusalem, but also make it very clear that she has served her sentence, 26Look at the night skies: Who do you think made all this? Who marches this army of stars out each night, counts them off, calls […]
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