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• Text: scholars of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. This guy, before he was 30 now. Now listen to this out of his autobiography: Long ago in my student days I had thought about it. It struck me as inconceivable that I should be allowed to lead such a happy life

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• Text: of an AA meeting. Some of you might say simply to come into this place, to hear the music begin, to see the candles flicker, to have the table set. Some of you, simply feeling the body of the one next to you, reminding you that you are not alone and you

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• Text: University From Feast to Fast: Honoring the Human Richard A. Rhem Page 2 This morning we have a taste of it with some foot-tapping music and there are Paczkis, and you're invited to indulge to your heart's content, but in the real celebration of Mardi

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• Text: sterner expression of Dutch mystical pietism. But there I was in my old home territory where my family still worships and I heard emotion in the musical expression, emotion in the “open mike” testimony and in the statements of the pastor, and I noted

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• Text: that simply will not be turned away, a love that will never let up, a love that will never let you go. Whoever you are, wherever you are coming from – returned on Easter from a long dropout, cynical in general, but find the music and flowers inviting

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• Text: understandable, because Jesus is the one who was raised from the dead, and so our liturgy, the music, the anthems - all of it is very much focused on the risen Lord. That's understandable. But, I want to say to you this morning that Easter is not so much a matter

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• Text: is also an atheist, was approaching his death, he had said, "No priest, no music, no ritual." They grew up, of course, in that grand Anglican tradition where the liturgy sort of permeates the air and his father, obviously, was a very deliberate atheist who

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• Text: a Minister of Music and a large organ - all of the accouterments that make it such a pleasure to be a part of this community. And it can become a real drain and a drag. And it can ring the zest out of your spiritual life. In the Utne Reader, in this same

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• Text: deeply moved by the music and the prayers and the liturgy. She goes back, she goes to the lower level of the church and gets into a support group and finds her life being nurtured by the religious observance from which she had absented herself for many

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• Text: ? Have you had times when the words of a Psalmist were music to your ears and gave you just the words you needed from the heart to say, “Oh Lord, out of the depths I cry to you. Lord, hear my cry. Oh Lord, if you should mark iniquities who could stand

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• Text: for Advent. How do the Songs of Liberation emanating from underdogs get appropriated by top dogs? We love this season. It’s beautiful. We come into the sanctuary and there’s something that touches us deeply - the music, the ritual, and so much about

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• Text: The Gospel of Radical Grace: No Human Invention From the series: The One Covenant of Grace – The Salvation of the World Text: Galatians 1:11-12 Richard A. Rhem Christ Community Church Spring Lake, Michigan Music Ministry Sunday, October 18, 1987