Music for 09272015

FirstLight
Gathering
Hold on Jacob

Opening
Love the Lord

Confession/Praise Response
The steadfast love of the Lord (GtG 59)

Offertory
The Potter’s hand

Closing
The summons (STF 2130)

11AM
Hymns
760, Bring Many Names (verses 1-3, 6) (WESTCHASE)
39, Great is Thy Faithfulness (FAITHFULNESS)
726, Will You Come and Follow Me (KELVINGROVE)

Confession/Praise Response
59, The steadfast love of the Lord (refrain)

Doxology OLD HUNDREDTH

Instrumental Music
Prelude: Arr. Lynn Trapp, Pescador de Hombres
A setting of the tune at GTG # 721
Offertory: Randall Stroope, The Call
Postlude: JS Bach, Prelude in A

Music for 092015

FirstLight
Gathering
Father Abraham

Opening
Forever

Confession/Praise Response
Dayenu

Prayer for Illumination
Open your ears, O faithful people

Offertory
Indescribable

Closing
The trees of the field (STF 2279)

11AM
Hymns
10, Sing glory to the name of God (LASST UNS ERFREUEN)
80, You shall go out with joy (THE TREES OF THE FIELD)

Confession/Praise Response
59, refrain, The steadfast love of the Lord (STEADFAST LOVE)

Prayer for Illumination
453, Open your ears, O faithful people (YISRAEL VORAITA)

Doxology
OLD HUNDREDTH

Instrumental Music
Prelude: James Woodman, “…a secret wrapped in smoke and fire…”
From “Meditations on Lasst Uns Erfreuen”
A musical impression of a single phrase of text from our first hymn.
Offertory: Mark L. Williams, O master let me walk with thee
A new tune for the text at GtG#738
Postlude: JS Bach, Little Prelude and Fugue in E Minor

Music for 091315

FirstLight
Gathering
How great is our God

Opening
I could sing of your love

Confession/Praise Response
Jubilate, everybody

Offertory
Beautiful things

Closing
He knows my name

11AM
Hymns
667, When morning gilds the skies (LAUDES DOMINI)
36, For the fruit of all creation (AR HYD Y NOS)
37, Let all things now living (ASH GROVE)

Confession/Praise Response
Thou art giving and forgiving (HYMN TO JOY)

Psalmody
Psalm 19
God’s glory fills the heavens (CREATION)

Doxology (FOREST GREEN)
In gratitude and humble trust

Instrumental Music
    Prelude: Edward Elgar, Andantino
    Offertory: Beethoven, The heavens are telling
    Postlude: Arr. K Lee Scott, Recessional

Music for 090615

FirstLight
Gathering
Be still and know

Opening
Open the eyes of my heart, Lord

Confession/Praise Response
As the deer

Offertory
O for a thousand tongues to sing

Closing
You are my all in all

11AM
Hymns
610, O for a thousand tongues to sing (AZMON)
797, We cannot measure how you heal (YE BANKS AND BRAES)
806, I’ll praise my maker (OLD 113TH)
Introduction by Klaas Jan Mulder

Confession/Praise Response
Halle, halle, hallelujah

Doxology (OLD HUNDREDTH)

Prelude: Klaas Jan Mulder, Fantasy on Psalm 146: I, Moderato
Offertory: Sally Ann Morris, Shall tribulation or distress
A setting of the text and tune at GtG 823, itself a setting of
text adapted from Romans 8.
Postlude: Jan Pieter Sweelinck, Ricercar Brevis in A