Notes on the Notes
Notes on the Notes – February 28, 2021
Lent 2 To Trust, Even When it is Difficult This week’s music: “He’s Always Been Faithful to Me” “Morning by morning, I wake up to find the power and comfortOf God’s hand in mine.Season by season I watch Him, amazed,In awe of the myst’ry of His perfect ways.All I have need of His hand will […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 21
Lent 1 This week’s music: “You Shall Be the Path” “You shall be the path that guides us,You the light that in us burns;Shining deep within all people,Yours the love that we must learn,For our hearts shall wander restlessTill they safe to you return;Finding you in one another,We shall all your face discern.” The words […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 14, 2021
Transfiguration Sunday This week’s music: “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise” (VU #264) “Immortal, invisible, God only wise,In light inaccessible hid from our eyes,Most blessed, most glorious the Ancient of Days,Almighty, victorious, thy great name we praise. Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light,Nor wanting, nor wasting, thou rulest in might;Thy justice like mountains high soaring above,Thy […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 7, 2021
This week’s music: “We are One” (VU #402) The tune for this hymn was composed in 1987 by Jeeva Sam of Regina, SK, a United Church minister. The arrangement is by another United Church minister, David Kai, of Gloucester Ontario (1995) . Written especially for the music, the hymn text comes to us from a third United […]
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – January 31, 2021
This week’s music: “O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing” (VU #326) “O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer’s praise,The glories of my God and King, the triumphs of God’s grace. Jesus! the name that charms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease;‘Tis music in the sinner’s ears, ’tis life and health […]
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Notes on the Notes – January 24, 2021
This week’s music: “Come to My Heart” (VU #661) “Come to my heart, Lord Jesus; teach me to walk in your way.Come to my heart, Lord Jesus; come to my heart today.Give me the peace and joy that only you can bring.Come to my heart, Lord Jesus; give me a song to sing. Fill me […]
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – January 17, 2021
This week’s music: “New Every Morning” (VU #405) “New every morning is the love our wakening and uprising prove;Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life, and power, and thought. New mercies each returning day hover around us while we pray;New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thought of God, new hopes of […]
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Notes on the Notes – January 10, 2021
Baptism of Jesus This week’s music: “O Splendour of God’s Glory Bright” (VU #413) “O splendour of God’s glory bright, from light eternal bringing light;O light of life, light’s living spring, true day, all days illumining; Come, Holy Sun of heavenly love, pour down your radiance from above,And to our inward hearts convey the Holy […]
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – January 3, 2021
Epiphany This week’s music: “A Light is Gleaming” (VU #82) “A light is gleaming,Spreading its arms throughout the night,Living in the light.Come share its gladness,God’s radiant love is burning bright,Living in the light. When light comes pouring into the darkest place,It hurts our eyes to see the glow.Sometimes a word of hope reminds us of […]
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – December 27, 2020
Decorations and Traditions This week’s music: “Joy is Now in Every Place” (VU #45) “Joy is now in every place,Christmas lightens every face;Now be with us, in your grace,O hear us, bless us, holy Jesus. May the star that shone that night,Making your poor stable bright,Fill our hearts with love and light,O hear us, bless […]
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Notes on the Notes – December 24, 2020
Christmas Eve “No Crowded Eastern Street” (VU #49) “No crowded eastern street, no sound of passing feet;Far to the left and far to right the prairie snows spread fair and white;Yet still to us is born tonight the child, the King of glory. No blaze of heavenly fire, no bright celestial choir,Only the starlight as […]
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – December 20, 2020
Advent 4 Love Born in the Wilderness This week’s music: “We Light This Candle” “We light this candle for Love.Await the new life within.May our hearts now live each day,So Love can find a way,So Love can find a way.” Our Advent candle-lighting song was written by Pat Mayberry (2016) and arranged by David Kai […]
Continue ReadingNotes on the Notes – December 13, 2020
Third Sunday of Advent Joy in the Wilderness This week’s music: “We Light This Candle” “We light this candle for Joy. Await the new life within. May our hearts now live each day, So Joy can find a way, So Joy can find a way.” Our Advent candle-lighting song was written by Pat Mayberry (2016) […]
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Notes on the Notes – December 6, 2020
Second Sunday of Advent Peace in the Wilderness Communion This week’s music: “We Light This Candle” “We light this candle for Peace. Await the new life within. May our hearts now live each day, So Peace can find a way, So Peace can find a way.” Our Advent candle-lighting song was written by Pat Mayberry […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 29, 2020
First Sunday of ADVENT Hope in the Wilderness This week’s music: “We Light This Candle” “We light this candle for Hope. Await the new life within. May our hearts now live each day, So Hope can find a way, So Hope can find a way.” Our Advent candle-lighting song was written by Pat Mayberry (2016) […]
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