Sermons Presented by Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church

The Invitation

By the Rev. Leigh DeVries

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Hymn: All Who Hunger, Gather Gladly

Text: Sylvia G. Dunstan, 1990. Music: William Moore’s Columbian Harmony, 1825. Text: ©1991 GIA Publications, Inc. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Response - Take, O Take Me As I Am

Text and Music: ©1995 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.)

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Offertory Anthem: What Wondrous Love Is This

Text and Music: William Walker (c. 1811); arr. John S. Dixon. ©2019 St. James Music Press. Reprinted and streamed with permission by St. James Music Press, license #7158. All rights reserved.

Doxology: Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow

Text: ©1989 Hope Publishing Company. Music Harm: ©1998 Hope Publishing Company.

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Postlude: Prelude and Fugue in B-flat Major

Music: ©1974 Fred Bock Music Company. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

10:00 a.m. Sunday Worship Service.

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Prelude: Praeludium and Arioso from “Sonata in Baroque Style”

Music: ©1974 Fred Bock Music Company. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Hymn: O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing

Text: Charles Wesley, 1739, alt.; Spanish trans. Federico J. Pagura. Korean trans. The United Methodist Korean Hymnal Committee, 2001. Music: Carl Gotthelf Gläser, 1828; arr. Lowell Mason, 1839. Spanish Trans. ©1989 The United Methodist Publishing House (admin. The Copyright Company). Korean Trans. ©2001 The United Methodist Publishing House (admin. The Copyright Company). All rights reserved.

Response - Take, O Take Me As I Am

Text and Music: ©1995 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.)

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Offertory Anthem: O Heavenly Word

Text: Seventh century Latin hymn. Music: Richard Shephard. ©2015 St. James Music Press. Reprinted and streamed with permission by St. James Music Press, license #7158. All rights reserved.

Doxology - Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow

Text: ©1989 Hope Publishing Company. Music Harm: ©1998 Hope Publishing Company.

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Postlude: Gigue from “Sonata in Baroque Style”

Music: ©1974 Fred Bock Music Company. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

10:00 a.m. Sunday Worship Service

How Can I Keep From Singing

By the Rev. Rebecca Kirkpatrick

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Prelude - Entrada, Echo, and Elevazione

©2015 Kathleen Scheide. All rights reserved.

Response: Take, O Take Me As I Am Text and Music: ©1995 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.) Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Offertory Anthem - Life Has Many Rhythms

Text: F. Pratt Green. Music: Jody W. Lindh. ©1979 Augsburg Publishing House. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Doxology: Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow Text: Brian Wren, 1989. Music: Geistliche Kirchengesäng, 1623; harm. Hal H. Hopson, 1998. Text: ©1989 Hope Publishing Company. Music Harm: ©1998 Hope Publishing Company. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211.

Postlude - Toccata

©1984 Universal Songs Holland (admin. Universal Music Publishing Group). All rights reserved.

Seeking a Homeland

By the Rev. Rachel Pedersen

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Prelude - At the River

Text: Robert Lowry (1826-1899). Music: Traditional Christian hymn; arr. Aaron Copland (1900-1990). ©1954 The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. Copyright renewed. New transposition: ©2005 The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. Sole Publisher and Licensee. All rights reserved.

Response - Take, O Take Me As I Am

Text and Music: ©1995 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.)

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Hymn - God, Whose Giving Knows No Ending

Text: Robert L. Edwards, 1961, alt. Music: The Sacred Harp, 1844; harm. James H. Wood, 1958. Text: ©1961, ren. 1989 The Hymn Society (admin. Hope Publishing Company). Music Harm. ©1958, ren. 1986 Broadman Press (admin. Music Services). Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Offertory Anthem - From the Rising of the Sun

Text: Malachi 1:11 Music: Frederick A. Gore Ouseley (1825-1889); arr. Crawford R. Thoburn. ©2017 St. James Music Press. Reprinted and streamed with permission by St. James Music Press, license #7158. All rights reserved.

Hymn - God of Our Life

Text: Hugh Thomson Kerr, 1916, alt. Music: Charles Henry Purday, 1860, harm. John Weaver, 1986. Text: ©1928 F.M. Braselman, ren. 1956 Presbyterian Board of Christian Education. (admin. Westminster John Knox Press). Music Harm: ©1990 Hope Publishing Company. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Doxology - Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow

Text: ©1989 Hope Publishing Company. Music Harm: ©1998 Hope Publishing Company. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Postlude - Procession

Music: Gerald Near, 1974; arr. Steven Heitzer. Music: ©1974 H.W. Gray Publications; (a div. of Jubilate Music Group, LLC, Brentwood, TN). All rights reserved.

The Reading of the Will

By the Rev. Franklyn C. Pottorff

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Prelude - Variations on a Norwegian Folktune

Music: Edvard Grieg, 1875; arr. Bjarne Sløgedal, 1971. ©1971 Harald Lyche & Co., Musikkforlag, Oslo, Norway. All rights reserved.

Hymn - Here in This Place

Text and Music: Marty Haugen, 1979. Text and Music: ©1982 GIA Publications, Inc. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Response - Take, O Take Me As I Am

Text and Music: ©1995 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.)

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Hymn - All Who Love and Serve Your City

Text: Erik Routely, 1966. Music: The United States Sacred Harmony, 1799; harm. Carlton R. Young, 1964. Text: ©1969 Stainer & Bell, Ltd. (admin. Hope Publishing Company). Music Harm: ©1965 Abingdon Press (admin. The Copyright Company). Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Offertory Anthem - O Give Thanks

Text: The Psalms. Music: Joseph Corfe; arr. James Kirkby. ©2014 St. James Music Press. Reprinted and streamed with permission by St. James Music Press, license #7158. All rights reserved.

Hymn - God of Our Life

Text: Hugh Thomson Kerr, 1916, alt. Music: Charles Henry Purday, 1860, harm. John Weaver, 1986. Text: ©1928 F.M. Braselman, ren. 1956 Presbyterian Board of Christian Education. (admin. Westminster John Knox Press). Music Harm: ©1990 Hope Publishing Company. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Doxology - Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow

Text: ©1989 Hope Publishing Company. Music Harm: ©1998 Hope Publishing Company. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Bargaining with God

By the Rev. Franklyn C. Pottorff

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Response: Take, O Take Me As I Am

Text and Music: ©1995 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.) Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Offertory Anthem - Undivided Mystery

Text: Beverly Easterling. Music: Mark Schweizer. ©2016 St. James Music Press. Reprinted and streamed with permission by St. James Music Press, license #7158. All rights reserved.

Doxology: Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow

Text: Brian Wren, 1989. Music: Geistliche Kirchengesäng, 1623; harm. Hal H. Hopson, 1998. Text: ©1989 Hope Publishing Company. Music Harm: ©1998 Hope Publishing Company. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211.

Choosing the Better Part

By the Rev. Brian K. Ballard

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Response: Take, O Take Me As I Am

Text and Music: ©1995 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.) Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Hymn: How Clear Is Our Vocation, Lord

Text: Fred Pratt Green, 1981.

Music: C. Hubert H. Parry, 1888.

Text: ©1982 Hope Publishing Company.

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Offertory Anthem: Word Made Flesh

Text: St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274).

Music: Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924).

©2016 St. James Music Press.

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Hymn: Be Thou My Vision

Text: Irish poem; trans. Mary E. Byrne, 1905; vers. Eleanor Hull, 1912, alt.

Music: Irish ballad; harm. David Evans, 1927.

Music Harm: ©1927 Oxford University Press.

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Doxology: Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow Text: Brian Wren, 1989. Music: Geistliche Kirchengesäng, 1623; harm. Hal H. Hopson, 1998. Text: ©1989 Hope Publishing Company. Music Harm: ©1998 Hope Publishing Company. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211.

Response: Take, O Take Me As I Am

Text and Music: ©1995 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.) Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Hymn: How Clear Is Our Vocation, Lord

Text: Fred Pratt Green, 1981.

Music: C. Hubert H. Parry, 1888.

Text: ©1982 Hope Publishing Company.

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Offertory Anthem: Word Made Flesh

Text: St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274).

Music: Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924).

©2016 St. James Music Press.

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Hymn: Be Thou My Vision

Text: Irish poem; trans. Mary E. Byrne, 1905; vers. Eleanor Hull, 1912, alt.

Music: Irish ballad; harm. David Evans, 1927.

Music Harm: ©1927 Oxford University Press.

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10:00 a.m. Sunday Worship Service.

Faith Grows Here

By the Rev. Brian K. Ballard

Response: Take, O Take Me As I Am Text and Music: ©1995 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.) Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Offertory Anthem: The Best of Rooms Text: Robert Herrick. Music: Charles Wood. ©2013 St. James Music Press. Reprinted and streamed with permission by St. James Music Press, license #7158. All rights reserved.

Doxology: Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow Text: Brian Wren, 1989. Music: Geistliche Kirchengesäng, 1623; harm. Hal H. Hopson, 1998. Text: ©1989 Hope Publishing Company. Music Harm: ©1998 Hope Publishing Company. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211.

10:00 a.m. Sunday Worship Service. Unintended Expectations by the Rev. Rachel Pedersen

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Prelude: Variations on a Sunday School Tune: Shall We Gather at the River Music: Virgil Thomson, 1926. Music: ©1954, 1955 H.W. Gray Co. © Renewed 1982, 1983 Virgil Thomson. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Response: Take, O Take Me As I Am Text and Music: John L. Bell, 1995. Text and Music: ©1995 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.) Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211.

Hymn: God of Our Life Text: Hugh Thomson Kerr, 1916, alt. Music: Charles Henry Purday, 1860, harm. John Weaver, 1986. Text: ©1928 F.M. Braselman, ren. 1956 Presbyterian Board of Christian Education. (admin. Westminster John Knox Press). Music Harm: ©1990 Hope Publishing Company Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Offertory Anthem: Hear My Prayer, O God Text and Music: James Kent (1700-1776); arr. Crawford R. Thoburn. ©2016 St. James Music Press. Reprinted and streamed with permission by St. James Music Press, license #7158. All rights reserved.

Doxology: Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow Text: Brian Wren, 1989. Music: Geistliche Kirchengesäng, 1623; harm. Hal H. Hopson, 1998. Text: ©1989 Hope Publishing Company. Music Harm: ©1998 Hope Publishing Company. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211.

Sunday, June 26, 2022 Sermon: Created for Prophetic Community by the Rev. Dr. Agnes W. Norfleet

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Prelude - Praeambulum and Harmonies Volantes

Music: Erzsébet Szönyi ©1958 Editio Musica Budapest Zeneműkiadó Kft.

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Response – Take Me as I Am Text and Music: John L. Bell, 1995. Text and Music: ©1995 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.) Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Hymn - God the Sculptor of Mountains

Text: John Thornburg, 1993, alt. Music: Amanda Husberg, 1995.

Text: ©1993 John Thornburg. Music: ©1996 Abingdon Press (admin. The Copyright Company)Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Offertory Anthem - How Can I Keep From Singing?

Music: Traditional Quaker hymn; arr. Mark Schweizer. ©2014 St. James Music Press. Reprinted and streamed with permission by St. James Music Press, license #7158. All rights reserved.

Doxology - Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow

Text: Brian Wren, 1989. Music: Geistliche Kirchengesäng, 1623; harm. Hal H. Hopson, 1998. Text: ©1989 Hope Publishing Company. Music Harm: ©1998 Hope Publishing Company. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Postlude: Presque Dasant

Music: Erzsébet Szönyi ©1958 Editio Musica Budapest Zeneműkiadó Kft.

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