Music Notes

This Sunday we will celebrate the Feast of All Saints Day when we remember the lives of our members and friends who have passed away, and ponder our own lives and how they fit into God’s kingdom. Our Processional hymn, Give thanks for life , exemplifies this with stanza 3: for our own, our living and our dead, thanks for the love by which our life is fed, a love not changed by time or death or dread, Alleluia. It was written by Shirley Erena Murray and sung to Vaughan Willia

This Sunday we will read in 2nd Timothy 4: The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and save me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.   Our Processional hymn will be O God, our help in ages past. This text was written by Isaac Watts in 1714, shortly before the death of Queen Anne of England. This was a time of great crises and turmoil, as the successor of Queen Anne was as yet undetermined, and the fear of a monarch who would reinstate

This Sunday we will read Luke 18 when Jesus tells his disciples “to pray always and not to lose heart.” And in 2nd Timothy we read, “always be sober, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully.” Our music will reflect these directives. We will have a guest pianist to sub for me, Cathy Smith, who graciously prepares beautiful piano music for our worship. Cathy is a retired vocal music teacher from Wentzville Holt high school and is curren

This Sunday we will read the familiar command in Luke 17 from Jesus to the Samaritan who he has just healed: “Get up and go on your way;...

This Sunday we will follow Jesus as he talks with his disciples about faith. According to the RSCM Sunday by Sunday magazine, Jesus...