Notes on the Notes

Notes on the Notes – May 29, 2022

Spiritual Cross-fit Week 5 What are We Reflecting? This Week’s Music: “Come and Find the Quiet Centre” (VU #374) “Come and find the quiet centre in the crowded life we lead, Find the room for hope to enter, find the frame where we are freed: Clear the chaos and the clutter, clear our eyes, that we […]

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Notes on the Notes – May 22, 2022

Spiritual Cross-fit Week 4 “Forgive and Forget?” 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, […]

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Notes on the Notes – May 15, 2022

Spiritual Cross-Fit “Prayer as Practice” This Week’s Music:  “I Need Thee Every Hour” (VU #671) “I need Thee every hour, most gracious Lord; No tender voice like Thine can peace afford. I need Thee, oh, I need Thee; Every hour I need Thee; Oh, bless me now, my Savior, I come to Thee. I need […]

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Notes on the Notes – May 8, 2022

Spiritual Cross-Fit Where Two or Three are Gathered This week’s music:  “Come In, Come In and Sit Down”  (VU 395 v 1, 2,4) “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 the […]

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Notes on the Notes – May 1, 2022

Spiritual Cross-Fit Week 1 – Getting Started This Week’s Music:  “God is Here” (VU #389) “God is here! As we your people meet to offer praise and prayer, May we find in fuller measure what it is in Christ we share. Here, as in the world around us, all our varied skills and arts Wait […]

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Notes on the Notes – April 24, 2022

Earth Day Sunday This Week’s Music: “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore You” (VU #232) “Joyful, joyful we adore you God of glory, life and love; Hearts unfold like flowers before you, opening to the sun above. Melt the clouds of sin and sadness, drive the gloom of doubt away; Giver of immortal gladness, fill us with […]

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Notes on the Notes – April 17, 2022 – Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday Communion 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 praise then let us sing… Unto Christ, our heavenly King,… Who endured the cross and grave,… […]

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Notes on the Notes – April 15, 2022 – Good Friday

Good Friday “We Remember” The opening anthem by Joal Raney (2011) draws us into the Good Friday story by retelling some of the events of Jesus’ ministry and leading us to the phrase “we remember Calvary.”  It incorporates the traditional hymn “When I Survey The Wondrous Cross”  by Isaac Watts, which was written in 1707. […]

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Notes on the Notes – April 3, 2022 – Fifth Sunday of Lent

Lent 5 “Full to the Brim – Brazen Acts of Beauty” This week’s music:  “Sing Your Praise to God Eternal” (VU #244) “Sing your praise to God eternal, sing your praise to God the Son, Sing your praise to God the Spirit, living and forever One. God has made us, God has blessed us, God has […]

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Notes on the Notes – March 27, 2022

Lent 4 Prodigal Grace This week’s music:  “There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy” (VU #271 v 1, 2, 5) “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; […]

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Notes on the Notes – March 20, 2022

Lent 3 You are Worthy  This week’s music:  “Come, Just As You Are” “Come just as you are, Hear the Spirit call. Come just as you are – Come and see, come receive, come and live forever. Life everlasting, And strength for today, Taste the Living Water and never thirst again.” Our opening song invites […]

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Notes on the Notes – March 13, 2022

Lent 2 Full to the Brim – Under God’s Wings This Week’s Music:  “Let Us Build a House (All are Welcome)”  “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 […]

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Notes on the Notes – March 6, 2022

Lent 1 Full to the Brim – Even in the Desert  This week’s music:  “Giver of the Perfect Gift” (VU #116 v. 1, 4, 5) “Giver of the perfect gift, only hope of human race, Hear the prayer our hearts uplift, gathered at thy throne of grace. Oh, may these our Lenten days, blest by […]

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Notes on the Notes – February 27, 2022

Transfiguration Sunday This Week’s Music: “Immortal, Invisible” (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 […]

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