Music for Sunday January 25

FirstLight worship will begin with gathering songs "We fall down" and "Holy, holy, holy" (NICEA)and conclude with "Come, now is the time to worship." We'll sing "Halle, halle, hallelujah" at the Confession. The Prophets will sing "Take my life" at the offering and include "Give thanks" as our doxology. We'll be singing "Hungry" during the distribution at communion and conclude worship with John Bell's "The Summons."

Hymns at 11AM will include "Sing praise to God who reigns above" (MIT FREUDEN ZART) and"Live into hope" (TRURO). The choir will sing Marty Haugen's, "Gather us in" at the introit, the Purcell "Glory be to God the Father" (WESTMINSTER ABBEY) at the confession and Mike Barker's "The Lord bless you" at the benediction. The anthem at the offering will be Harold Freidell's "Draw us in the Spirit’s tether." Instrumental music will include Claude Debussy's, Prelude from Book 1: X. La Cathédrale engloutie at the prelude and Olivier Messiaen's "Apparition de l’eglise éternelle" at the postlude. With these we are in some very atmospheric, highly impressionistic music, with stunning harmonic language.