Worship
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Come, Emmanuel (#2) [2022]
As the anticipation, the “Watching and waiting, looking above” continues, we move (backward) to the first verse of “O Come, O Come Emmanuel.” Perhaps, this is the most poignant of this hymns litany of verses, with its begging and… Continue reading
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Singing, COVID-19, and Church…
So, some stream of consciousness thoughts that have been percolating for some time now. As the great theologian Hedley Lamarr once said: “My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening thru a cosmic vapor of invention.”… Continue reading
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Love for All…yes, ALL.
“The vilest offender who truly believes, will surely, from Jesus, a pardon receive.” That is a lyric I’ve known all my life…and sung time after time, as I do so many, without it sinking in. A few weeks ago, I… Continue reading
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It Happened Again
I am still amazed at little, seemingly hidden verses that strike me from time to time. In recent years, it seems to always happen at Christmas. Last night was no different. Our congregation travels to a local rehabilitation and nursing… Continue reading
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Softly and Tenderly
One of the hymnological tenets that I often examine concerns what contributions people with roots in Churches of Christ/Restoration Movement have made to broader “mainline” hymnody…read that as “songs they’ve written that have had a wide influence outside Churches of… Continue reading