Sunday School From Home This week our Advent study is about Mary’s visit from the angel Gabriel. Our activities include a skit, a video, coloring pages and the game of dominoes. The activities are appropriate for a variety of ages including adults. You can forward this on to your adult groups and anyone else in […]
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December 6, 2020 – Online Worship Experiences
Podcast – Pastor Tom Strandburg Past sermons can be found here on the site or at the Buzzsprout site. Subscribe to us on your mobile device through your favorite streaming app like iTunes, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, TuneIn, and Google Podcasts. Videocast – Pastor Scott Miller “Comfort for the Displaced” is this week’s video cast, based on Mark 1:1-8. Pastor […]
Musical Advent Calendar – Day 5
Lo! he comes with clouds descending For today, we have a wonderful advent hymn to share, one which may be less familiar to you. “Lo! he comes with clouds descending” is a vibrant musical imagining of the glorious return of Christ, in words inspired by scripture and written by the Rev. Charles Wesley. An incredible […]
Musical Advent Calendar – Day 4
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring The musical offering for today is a very well-known piece of music, Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, played on alto recorder by Sarah Boice. The music is an arrangement of a movement from a cantata composed by J.S. Bach in 1723, the first year in his position as director of music for […]
Musical Advent Calendar – Day 3
Nun Komm Krumhorns The offering for day 3 of our Musical Advent Calendar is almost certainly something a little outside of your typical experience. The tune you’rehearing is called “Nun komm der Heiden Heiland” – “Savior of the Nations, Come” in English, found in our hymnal at UMH#214. It is a traditional Advent hymn with […]
Musical Advent Calendar – Day 2
Psalm 40 Today’s musical offering is from the Book of Psalms – that favorite book of scripture often called “the Bible’s hymnal”. There are a number of Psalms that prophetically herald the coming of the Christ, such as the 72ndPsalm, or that otherwise evoke elements of the long-awaited Messiah. Among them is Ps. 40, bringing […]
Musical Advent Calendar – Day 1
Today’s offering on the “Musical Advent Calendar” is an improvisation on the spiritual “I Want to be Ready”. The text is loosely based on descriptions of the New Jerusalem, the Heavenly City, as shown to St. John the Divine and described in the Book of Revelations. The text can be found in the UMC Hymnal […]
Sunday School From Home Week of November 29
Sunday School From Home This week marks the first Sunday of Advent! Our story is one of preparation, as Zechariah and Elizabeth learn they are to have a baby. The activities are appropriate for a variety of ages including adults. You can forward this on to your adult groups and anyone else in or out […]
Musical Advent Calendar – St. Andrew’s Day
The first item on our “Musical Advent Calendar” is…well, isn’t strictly an Advent reflection. November 30 is traditionally celebrated as St. Andrew’s Day. As one of Jesus’s twelve apostles, St. Andrew is celebrated as a national patron saint in Scotland, Romania, Greece, Russia, as well as in other nations and among other churches and groups of people, including in […]
Introducing the “Musical Advent Calendar”
Hi, everyone, Since we are having to begin this season of Advent apart from one another, the Music Ministry is pleased to announce something that we hope will help make your seasonal observance a little more enjoyable and more spiritually fulfilling. Each day of Advent, from now until Christmas, we will be sharing a musical […]