Service Previews, Recordings & Sermons
Below is information on each main 10:30 Sunday service (9:00 service during the summer), including a list of hymns, anthems and other service music; and a link to the service bulletin. Once a service is over, it is moved to the “Past Services” sidebar, and we add links to podcasts of the entire service and the sermon only, along with a text version of the sermon.
Our 10:30 Sunday services and select special services are live streamed online. You can watch a service live, or access the archived streaming video any time after. To watch live, click on the service you want in the “Upcoming Service” listing, then click on the embedded video at the service’s scheduled start time. To watch an archived video, click on the service you want in the “Past Services” sidebar, and then click on the embedded video.
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Upcoming Services
Morning Prayer Rite II at 10:30 a.m. with hymns, sermon by the Rev’d Margie Baker.
Worship at Home:
Click here: Service Bulletin – Sermon Text
Service Music:
Voluntary Solemn melody Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941)
Opening Hymn 608, vv. 1 & 4 Eternal Father, strong to save Melita
Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm does bind the restless wave,
Who bids the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
O hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on the sea.
O Trinity of love and pow’r,
Your children shield in danger’s hour;
From rock and tempest, fire, and foe,
Protect them where-so-e’er they go;
Thus, evermore shall rise to Thee
Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.
Hymn 699, vv. 1 & 2 Jesus, lover of my soul Aberystwyth
Jesus, lover of my soul,
let me to thy bosom fly,
while the nearer waters roll,
while the tempest still is high;
hide me, O my Savior, hide,
till the storm of life is past;
safe into the haven guide,
O receive my soul at last!
Other refuge have I none;
hangs my helpless soul on thee;
leave, ah! leave me not alone,
still support and comfort me.
All my trust on thee is stayed,
all my help from thee I bring;
cover my defenseless head
with the shadow of thy wing.
Voluntary Prelude in E minor, BWV 533 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Outdoor Service at 5:00 p.m., sermon by the Rev’d Margie Baker, music by Britt Emerick, viola.
The Service will be held on the west lawn, weather permitting.
Morning Prayer Rite II at 10:30 a.m. with hymns, sermon by the Rev’d Susan Pinkerton.
Worship at Home:
Click here: Service Bulletin – Sermon Text
Service Music:
Voluntary Psalm-Prelude, Set 1, No 3 Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Psalm 23:4
Opening Hymn 371, vv. 1 & 3 Thou, whose almighty word Moscow
Thou, whose almighty word
Chaos and darkness heard,
And took their flight;
Hear us, we humbly pray,
And where the Gospel day
Sheds not its glorious ray,
Let there be light!
Holy and blessed three,
Glorious Trinity,
Wisdom, love, might;
Boundless as ocean’s tide,
Rolling in fullest pride,
Through the world far and wide,
Let there be light!
Hymn, vv. 1 & 2 Great is thy faithfulness Faithfulness
Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father;
there is no shadow of turning with thee;
thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail not;
as thou hast been thou forever wilt be.
Refrain:
Great is thy faithfulness!
Great is thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see:
all I have needed thy hand hath provided–
Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!
Summer and winter and springtime and harvest,
sun, moon, and stars in their courses above
join with all nature in manifold witness
to thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love. Refrain
Voluntary Psalm 19 Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739)
Outdoor Service at 5:00 p.m., sermon by the Rev’d Susan Pinkerton.
The Service will be held on the west lawn, weather permitting.
Morning Prayer Rite II at 10:30 a.m. with hymns, sermon by the Rev’d Susan Pinkerton.
Worship at Home:
Click here: Service Bulletin – Sermon Text
Service Music:
Voluntary Prelude on Jerusalem, my happy home George Shearing (1919-2011)
Opening Hymn 522, vv. 1 & 2 Glorious things of thee are spoken Austria
Glorious things of thee are spoken,
Zion, city of our God;
he whose word cannot be broken
formed thee for his own abode;
on the Rock of Ages founded,
what can shake thy sure repose?
With salvation’s walls surrounded,
thou may’st smile at all thy foes.
See the streams of living waters,
springing from eternal love,
well supply thy sons and daughters,
and all fear of want remove;
who can faint while such a river
ever flows their thirst t’assuage?
Grace, which like the Lord, the giver,
never fails from age to age.
Hymn, vv. 1 & 4 It is well with my soul
When peace like a river attendeth my way,
when sorrows like sea billows roll;
whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say,
“It is well, it is well with my soul.”
Refrain:
It is well with my soul;
it is well, it is well with my soul.
O Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,
the clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
the trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend;
even so, it is well with my soul. Refrain
Voluntary Jerusalem Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918)
Outdoor Service at 5:00 p.m., sermon by the Rev’d Susan Pinkerton.
The Service will be held on the west lawn, weather permitting.
Morning Prayer Rite II at 10:30 a.m. with hymns, sermon by the Rev’d Margie Baker.
Worship at Home:
Click here: Service Bulletin – Sermon Text
Service Music:
Voluntary Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Opening Hymn 435, vv. 1 & 4 At the name of Jesus King’s Weston
At the name of Jesus ev’ry knee shall bow,
ev’ry tongue confess him King of glory now.
‘Tis the Father’s pleasure we should call him Lord,
who from the beginning was the mighty Word.
In your hearts enthrone him; there let him subdue
all that is not holy, all that is not true;
crown him as your Captain in temptation’s hour:
let his will enfold you in its light and pow’r.
Hymn 707, vv. 1 & 2 Take my life, and let it be consecrated Hollingsdale
Take my life and let it be
consecrated, Lord, to thee.
Take my moments and my days;
let them flow in endless praise,
let them flow in endless praise.
Take my hands and let them move
at the impulse of thy love.
Take my feet and let them be
swift and beautiful for thee,
swift and beautiful for thee.
Voluntary Fugue from Sonata II Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Outdoor Service at 5:00 p.m., sermon by the Rev’d Margie Baker.
The Service will be held on the west lawn, weather permitting.
Morning Prayer Rite II at 10:30 a.m., sermon by the Rev’d Margie Baker.
Worship at Home:
Click here: Service Bulletin – Sermon Text
Outdoor Service at 5:00 p.m., sermon by the Rev’d Margie Baker.
The Service will be held on the west lawn, weather permitting.