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Notes on the Notes – April 3, 2016

Saturday, April 2, 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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Symbols of our Lenten Journey

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Ash Wednesday – “Hungering for a fresh start” What is the ‘emptiness’?     Why can’t you buy what you need to fill the emptiness? Lent 1 –  “Hungering and thirsting for the WORD”          Imagine a world in which there was no Bible? Imagine not having the stories of faith that have given us a glimpse […]

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Notes on the Notes – March 25, 2016 – Good Friday

Thursday, March 24, 2016

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

Saturday, March 12, 2016

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

Saturday, March 12, 2016

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

Saturday, March 12, 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

Saturday, March 5, 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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