Author: DeReau Farrar

Sunday, March 11, 2018

Monthly Theme: Evil
Sermon Topic: Deliver Us To Evil
Choir: Unitarian Choir

 

Lamentations of Jeremiah
Music: Z. Randall Stroope
Text: Traditional

O vos omnes,
qui transities per viam
attendite et videte
si est dolor,
sicut dolor meus.

Recordare Domine
intuere et respice
opprobrium nostrum.

TRANSLATION

O you people,
who pass … read more.

Sunday, March 4, 2018

Monthly Theme: Evil
Sermon Topic: Good, Bad, and Indifferent
Choir: Chamber Choir

 

“Timor et Tremor” from Quatre Motets pour un Temps du Pénitence
Music: Francis Poulenc
Text: Traditional

Timor et tremor venerunt super me et caligo cecidit super me.
Miserere mei, Domine, miserere; quoniam in te confidit anima
… read more.

Sunday, February 25, 2018

Monthly Theme: Prayer
Sermon Topic:
Choir: Chalice Choir

 

Ask and It Shall Be Given
Music: Jonathan Adams
Text: Matthew 7:7-8

Ask, and it shall be given you;
Seek, and ye shall find;
Knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

For whosoever asketh receiveth;
And [they] that seeketh … read more.

Sunday, February 18, 2018

Monthly Theme: Prayer
Sermon Topic: “We Hope, We Pray, We Make it So”
Choir: Unitarian Choir

 

As There Are Flowers
Music: Colin Britt
Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay

Still must the poet as of old,
In barren attic bleak and cold,
Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to
… read more.

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Monthly Theme: Prayer
Sermon Topic: “Answering the Call of Love”
Choir: Chamber Choir

 

Wake Up, My Spirit
Music: Adolphus Hailstork
Text: Psalm 57:6-9

Wake up, my spirit!
I, myself, will waken the dawn.
Exalt yourself above the heavens, O God;
And your glory over all the earth.

Wake … read more.

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Monthly Theme: Prayer
Sermon Topic: “To Hold with Care”
Choir: Unitarian Choir

 

Hear My Prayer
Music: Moses Hogan
Text: Moses Hogan

O [God], please hear my prayer;
In the morning when I rise.
It’s your servant bound for glory.
O dear [God], please hear my prayer.

… read more.

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Monthly Theme: Creation
Sermon Topic: “Dialogue in Black and White”
Choir: Chalice Choir

 

The Storm is Passing Over
Music: Charles A. Tindley, arr. Barbara W. Baker
Text: Charles A. Tindley

Take courage, my soul, and let us journey on,
Tho’ the night is dark, it won’t … read more.

Sunday, January 21, 2018

Monthly Theme: Creation
Sermon Topic: “Keeping Sabbath in a 24/7 World”
Choir: Chamber Choir

 

over the river in loud flood
Music: Rima Snyder
Text: Wendell Berry

over the river in loud flood,
in the wind deep and broad
under the unending sky, pair
by pair, the … read more.

Sunday, January 14, 2018

Music & Worship
Monthly Theme: Creation
Sermon Topic: Renaissance Within
Choir: Unitarian Choir

 

Missa: Puer Natus Est Nobis
Music: Thomas Tallis
Text: Traditional

 

Introit
Puer natus est nobis, et filius datus est nobis:
cuius imperium super humerum eius:
et vocabitur nomen eius, magni consilii Angelus

Cantate Domino canticum novum:
… read more.

Sunday, January 7, 2018

Monthly Theme: Creation
Sermon Topic: “Sanctuary”
Choir: Chamber Choir

 

Locus Iste
Music: Anton Bruckner
Text: Traditional

This place was made by God,
a priceless sacrament;
it is without reproach.

 

Locus Iste
Music: Kevin Memley
Text: Traditional

This place was made by God,
a priceless sacrament;
it is … read more.