Notes on the Notes
Notes on the Notes – June 8, 2025
Pentecost Centennial of the United Church of Canada! This week’s music: “On this Day of Celebration” “On this day of celebration, at this time when hopes are new, God, we gather as your people, called to put our trust in you. You have made the world we live in; you have worked through history. In […]
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Notes on the Notes – June 1, 2025
PRIDE Sunday This week’s music: “Love Astounding” “Love astounding, Love confounding limits fearful minds impose. Love renewing, Love pursuing every heart until it knows Love’s transforming, healing goodness, Love’s abiding gentle grace, Love’s endurance, Love’s assurance, Love’s consoling strong embrace. Love receiving, Love believing, we rejoice with thanks and song, Faith regaining, hope proclaiming; Love […]
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Notes on the Notes – May 25, 2025
This week’s music: “The Church is Wherever God’s People” (VU #579, The Hymn Book #148) “The church is wherever God’s people are praising, Singing God’s goodness for joy on this day. The church is wherever disciples of Jesus remember his story and walk in his way. The church is wherever God’s people are helping, Caring […]
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Notes on the Notes – May 18, 2025
This week’s music: “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” (The Hymn Book #84) “He’s got the whole world in his hands, He’s got the big round world in his hands, He’s got the whole world in his hands, He’s got the whole world in his hands. He’s got the wind and the rain […]
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Notes on the Notes – May 11, 2025
Fourth Sunday of Easter/ Sunday Following Red Dress Day This Week’s Music: “Blest Be the Tie That Binds” (Voices United #602/Songs for a Gospel People #9/The Hymnary #376) “Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love; The unity of heart and mind is like to that above. We share each other’s woes, each […]
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Notes on the Notes – May 4, 2025
U.C.W. Sunday in Celebration of the Centennial of the United Church of Canada This week’s music: “Come In, Come in and Sit Down (aka Part of the Family)” (Voices United #395/Songs for a Gospel People #44) “Come in, come in and sit down, You are a part of the family. We are lost and we […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 27, 2025
Second Sunday of Easter This week’s music: “Draw the Circle Wide” (MV #145) “Draw the circle wide. Draw it wider still. Let this be our song, no one stands alone, Standing side by side, draw the circle wide. God the still-point of the circle, ‘Round whom all creation turns; nothing lost, but held forever, In God’s gracious […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 20, 2025 – Easter Sunday
Service Music: “Jesus Christ is Risen Today” (VU #155) “Jesus Christ is risen today, hallelujah! Our triumphant holy day, hallelujah! Who did once upon the cross, hallelujah! Suffer to redeem our loss. Hallelujah! Hymns of praise then let us sing… Unto Christ, our heavenly King,… Who endured the cross and grave,… Sinners to redeem and save… […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 18, 2025 – Good Friday
Service music: “I Come to the Cross” “I come to the cross seeking mercy and grace. I come to the cross where You died in my place. Out of my weakness and into Your strength, Humbly, I come to the cross. Your arms are open, You call me by name. You welcome this child that […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 13, 2025
Palm Sunday This week’s music: “Hosanna, Loud Hosanna” (VU #123) “Hosanna, loud hosanna!” the happy children sang; Through pillared court and temple the joyful anthem rang; To Jesus, who had blessed them close folded to his breast; The children sang their praises, the simplest and the best. From Olivet they followed ‘mid an exultant crowd, The […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 6, 2025
Lent 5 This week’s music: “O Jesus I Have Promised” (VU #120) “O Jesus, I have promised to serve you to the end; Remain forever near me, my Saviour and my friend; I shall not fear the journey if you are by my side, Nor wander from the pathway if you will be my guide. […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 30, 2025
Lent 4 This week’s music: “There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy” (VU #271) “There’s a wideness in God’s mercy like the wideness of the sea; There’s a kindness in God’s justice which is more than liberty. There is no place where earth’s sorrows are more felt than up in heaven; There is no place where earth’s […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 23, 2025
Lent 3 This week’s music: “All Who are Thirsty” (MV #4) “All who are thirsty All who are weak Come to the fountain Dip your heart in the streams of life Let the pain and the sorrow Be washed away In the waves of his mercy As deep cries out to deep, we sing Come Lord […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 16, 2025
Lent 2 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 mercies I […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 9, 2025
Lent 1 This week’s music: “Led by the Spirit” “Led by the Spirit of our God, we go to fast and pray With Christ into the wilderness; we join his Lenten way. “Rend not your garments, rend your hearts. Turn back your lives to me.” Thus says our kind and gracious God, whose reign is […]
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