Notes on the Notes
Notes on the Notes – August 31, 2025
This Week’s Music: “Let Us Build a House (All are Welcome)” (MV #1) “Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely live, a place where saints and children tell how hearts learn to forgive. Built of hopes and dreams and visions, rock of faith and vault of grace; Here the love […]
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Notes on the Notes – August 24, 2025
This week’s music: “Teach Me, God, to Wonder” (Voices United #299, Song for a Gospel People #36) “Teach me, God, to wonder, teach me, God, to see; Let your world of beauty capture me. Praise to you be given, love for you be lived, Life be celebrated, joy you give. Let me, God, be open, let […]
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Notes on the Notes – August 17, 2025
This week’s music: “How Great Thou Art” (Voices United #238, Songs for a Gospel People #50) “O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder, Consider all the works Thy hands have made; I see the stars, I hear the mighty thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed. Then sings my soul, my Savior God, […]
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Notes on the Notes – August 10, 2025
This week’s music: “Are You a Shepherd” (MV #126) “Are you a shepherd, good shepherd who leads us safely through danger, while calming our fears? Are you a father who shelters and feeds us, shares in our laughter and wipes away tears? Yes, you are shepherd, parent and teacher, but you are greater than all that […]
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Notes on the Notes – August 3, 2025
This week’s music: “For the Beauty of the Earth” (VU #226) “For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies, for the love which from our birth over and around us lies, God of all, to you we raise this our hymn of grateful praise. For the beauty of each hour of the […]
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Notes on the Notes – June 29, 2025
This week’s music: “Teach Me, God, to Wonder” (Voices United #299, Song for a Gospel People #36) “Teach me, God, to wonder, teach me, God, to see; Let your world of beauty capture me. Praise to you be given, love for you be lived, Life be celebrated, joy you give. Let me, God, be open, let […]
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Notes on the Notes – June 22, 2025
Sunday following National Indigenous Day This week’s music: “Creator God, You Gave Us Life” (MV #27) “Creator God, you gave us life, your image formed within our souls, Yet through the mist of time and space, we search for that which makes us whole. In every flower and every tree, we see your great diversity, Yet […]
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Notes on the Notes – June 15, 2025
Trinity Sunday Celebration of the Centennial of the United Church of Canada Father’s Day This week’s music: “Holy, Holy, Holy” (Voices United #315/The Hymn Book #50/The Hymnary #1) “Holy, holy, holy! Lord God almighty; Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee; Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty,God in three persons, blessed Trinity! […]
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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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