Music for July 26

FirstLight
Gathering
Better is one day

Opening
I’ll fly away

Confession/Praise Response
Lord, listen to your children praying

Offertory
We will dance

Closing
On Jordan’s stormy banks (Promised land)

11AM
Hymns
620, Praise, my soul the king of heaven (LAUDA ANIMA)
375, Shall we gather at the River (HANSON PLACE)
377, I want to walk as a child of the light (HOUSTON)

Confession/Praise Response
469, Lord, listen to your children praying

Doxology (PLEADING SAVIOR)
For the life that you have given

Instrumental Music
Prelude: Arr. Dana F. Everson, He leadeth me
TBA title, Allen Bell, saxophone
Offertory: Arr. Rich Heffler, I know whom I have believed
TBA title, Allen Bell, saxophone
Postlude: John Leavitt, Pirate Story, from Scenes of Childhood
Poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson
Hi! But here’s a squadron a-rowing on the sea; cattle on the meadow a-charging with a roar! Quick, and we’ll escape them, they’re as mad as they can be, the wicket is the
harbor and the garden is the shore.

This is the last week of our sermon series on children's of faith from a child's perspective. The topic is "heaven." The Leavitt piece is thoroughly secular, but even in the images of the poem by RL Stevenson, I can perceive a metaphor for heaven: the harbor and shore, which in turn pop up in the middle hymn at 11am. God has a way!

Music for 19 July

Worship Music
19 July 2015

FirstLight
Gathering
Shout to the Lord

Opening
Come, now is the time to worship

Confession/Praise Response
Lord, listen to your children praying

Offertory
He knows my name

Closing
I love to tell the story


11AM
Hymns
305, Come sing, O church, in joy (DARWELL’S 148th)
462, I love to tell the story (HANKEY)
772, Live into hope (TRURO)

Confession/Praise Response
469, Lord, listen to your children praying

Doxology (OLD HUNDREDTH)

Instrumental Music
Prelude: WA Mozart, Come praise the Lord
Brooke Alexander, soprano
Offertory: Gabriel Faure, Berceuse
Brooke Alexander, violin
Postlude: WA Mozart, Allegro, from Fantasie in F Minor

Music for 12 July 2015

FirstLight
Gathering
Lord, I lift your name on high

Opening
Arise, my soul, arise

Confession/Praise Response
Lord, listen to your children praying

Prayers
Healer of our every ill

Offertory
Jesus, firm foundation

Closing
How firm a foundation


11AM
Hymns
463, How firm a foundation (FOUNDATION)
465, What a friend we have in Jesus (CONVERSE)
822, When we are living (SOMOS DEL SENOR)

Confession/Praise Response
469, Lord, listen to your children praying

Prayers
795, Healer of our every ill (HEALER OF OUR EVERY ILL)

Doxology
In gratitude and humble trust (FOREST GREEN)

Instrumental Music
Prelude: John Leavitt, The Cow, from Scenes of Childhood
Poetry by Roubert Louis Stevenson
…The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: she gives me cream with
all her might, to eat with apple-tart…
Offertory: Johann Walther, If you but trust in God to guide you
Postlude: Johann Walther, Finale, from Concerto in B Minor

Music for 06282015

This Sunday we are continuing a sermon series, "Through the eyes of a child; big questions of faith."

FirstLight
Gathering Song(s)
Cherokee morning song
How great is our God

Opening Song
How majestic is your name (STF 2023)

Response to Forgiveness
Lord, listen to your children praying (STF 2193)

Offertory
Our God

Closing Song
God of the sparrow, God of the whale

11AM
Hymns
14, For the beauty of the earth (DIX)
543, God be the love to search and keep me (GREEN TYLER)
22, God of the sparrow, God of the whale (ROEDER)

Response to Forgiveness
469, Lord, listen to your children praying (CHILDREN PRAYING)

Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow (OLD HUNDREDTH)

Instrumental/Organ Music
Prelude: John Leavitt, The Moon, from Scenes of Childhood
Poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson
The moon has a face like the clock in the hall; she shines on thieves on the garden wall, on streets and fields and harbour quays, and birdies asleep in the forks of the trees…
Offertory: John Stanley, Andante in G Minor
Postlude: John Stanley, Trumpet Voluntary

Summer 2015 Art

We begin a sermon series this coming Sunday, "Through a child's eyes" which will explore questions of faith that children in our congregation have raised. To compliment that sermon series, the narthex art gallery will feature pieces by children from our congregation. The exhibition will be staged in three, age-based parts. The first four-week span features artwork by children who have completed Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade and 3rd grade. Here is their "stuff."

Music for 061415

FirstLight
Gathering Song(s)
Bless the Lord, my soul (Taize)
Bless the Lord, O my soul (Ten-thousand reasons)

Opening Song
Alabare 

Response to Forgiveness
Surely it is God who saves me 

Peace
Shalom chaverim 
Offertory
All of creation

Closing Song
Seek ye first

11AM
Hymns
667, When morning gilds the skies (LAUDES DOMINI)
36, For the fruits of all creation (AR HYD Y NOS)
766, The church of Christ cannot be bound (MCKEE)

Response to Forgiveness
Surely it is God who saves me

Doxology
In Gratitude and Humble Trust (FOREST GREEN)
In gratitude and humble trust we bring our best today,
To serve your cause and share your love with all along life’s way.
O God who gave yourself to us in Jesus Christ your Son,
Help us to give ourselves each day until life’s work is done.

Instrumental/Organ Music
Prelude: Johannes Brahms, Waltz in A-Flat Minor
David Bell, piano
Offertory: John Tesh, Venezia
Postlude: Gilbert Martin, Fanfare on MCKEE

Music for 060715

FirstLight
Gathering Song(s)
We sing of your glory (STF 2011, in D)
Jesus, name above all names (STF 2071, in D)

Opening Song
Blessed be your name (in B)

Response to Forgiveness
Rain down (in F)

Prayer for Illumination
Open your ears, O faithful people (A minor)

Offertory
Grace like rain (in C# minor)

Closing Song
Refiner’s fire (in E)

11AM
Hymns
619, Praise, my soul, the God of heaven (LAUDA ANIMA)
767, Together we serve (SAN ANSELMO)
846, Fight the good fight (DUKE STREET)

Response to Forgiveness
48, Rain down (RAIN DOWN)

Prayer for Illumination
453, Open your ears, O faithful people (YISRAEL V’ORAITA)

Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow (OLD HUNDREDTH)

Instrumental/Organ Music
Prelude: Daniel Pinkham, The Wind from the North, from The Four Winds
The north wind brings forth the rain Proverbs 25.23

Offertory: Improvisation on Geneva 138
"I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name for your love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word."  Psalm 138.2
The Genevan psalter tune for Psalm 138 is reminiscent of two other German hymn tunes, Lasst Uns Erfreuen and Mit Freuden Zart.

Postlude: Douglas E. Wagner, Toccata, from Psalm Impressions
Praise God with the timbrel and dance; praise God with stringed
instruments and organ. Psalm 150.4