Notes on the Notes

Notes on the Notes – Sunday, June 5, 2016

This week’s theme:  “What is it to know?” – A Celebration of Inclusivity This week’s scripture readings: Psalm 139                    Revelation 21:1-7 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. […]

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Notes on the Notes – May 29, 2016

This week’s theme:  To Whom, or What, are We Building Altars? This week’s scripture readings: 1 Kings 18: 20-39          Luke 7:11-17 This week’s music: “Awaken the Dawn” “Sing to the Lord with all of your heart Sing of the glory that’s due to his name Sing to the Lord with all of your soul Join […]

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Notes on the Notes – May 22, 2016

This week’s theme – Trinity Sunday This week’s scripture readings: John 16:12-15  Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 This week’s music: “Praise Our Maker” (VU #316) “Praise our Maker, peoples of one family; God is love, God is love! Praise our Maker, peoples of one family; God is love, God is love! Love our Saviour, followers of Jesus; […]

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Notes on the Notes – May 15, 2016

This week’s theme:  Pentecost Baptism/Confirmation Sunday This week’s scripture readings: Acts 2: 1-8, 11b-15, 36-41 Romans 8: 14-17 This week’s music: “Oh, a Song Must Rise” (MV #142) “Oh, a song must rise for the spirit to descend Oh, a song must rise once again Singing out God’s   praises and glory, the faithful voices blend, […]

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Notes on the Notes – May 8, 2016

This week’s theme:  Ascension Sunday “As one door closed…a new one opens.” This week’s scripture readings: Luke 24: 44-53  Acts 1: 1-10a This week’s music: “All Things Bright and Beautiful” (VU #291) Those who have recently seen the local production of The Vicar of Dibley will have new memories of this old classic!  The text, […]

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Notes on the Notes – May 1, 2016

This Week’s Theme: “Healing old wounds… an unlikely woman can be ‘saved’… and play hostess.” This Week’s Scripture Readings: Acts 16:9-15   This Week’s Music: “O Christ, in Thee My Soul” (VU #630) “O Christ, in thee my soul hath found, and found in thee alone; The peace, the joy I sought so long, the […]

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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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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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Notes on the Notes – March 28, 2016 – Easter Sunday

Hungering and Thirsting for Good News This week’s scripture readings: Acts 10: 34-36 Psalm 118: 23-24 Luke 24: 1-12 This week’s 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 […]

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Notes on the Notes – March 20, 2016 – Palm Sunday

Hungering and Thirsting for Living Water  This week’s scripture readings: Luke 19:28-40,  Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29 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 […]

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Notes on the Notes – March 13, 2016

Lent 5 Hungering and Thirsting for Community  This week’s scripture readings: Psalm 126,  Philippians 3:4b-14 This week’s music: “Part of the Family” (VU #395) “Come in, come in and sit down, You are a part of the family. We are lost and we are found, And we are a part of the family. You know […]

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Notes on the Notes – March 6, 2016

Lent 4 Hungering and Thirsting for a Place at the Table   This week’s scripture readings:         2 Corinthians 5: 16-21,   Luke 15: 1-3, 11b-32 This week’s music: “Softly and Tenderly” “Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, Calling for you and for me; See, on the portals He’s waiting and watching, Watching for you and […]

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