Worship

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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Notes on the Notes – April 17, 2016

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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Symbols of our Lenten Journey

Ash Wednesday – “Hungering for a fresh start” What is the ‘emptiness’?     Why can’t you buy what you need to fill the emptiness? Lent 1 –  “Hungering and thirsting for the WORD”          Imagine a world in which there was no Bible? Imagine not having the stories of faith that have given us a glimpse […]

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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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