Worship Arts Notes
Steve Badskey Steve Badskey

Worship Arts Notes

Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.  They are new every morning, great is Your faithfulness.  The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I hope in Him!  Lamentations 3:22-24...

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Worship Arts Notes
Steve Badskey Steve Badskey

Worship Arts Notes

The text of Major Daniel Webster Whittle’s hymn “I Know Whom I Have Believed” is a direct quotation from 2 Timothy 1:12: “...

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Worship Arts Notes
Steve Badskey Steve Badskey

Worship Arts Notes

Our opening hymn this next Sunday, “Come, Christians, Join to Sing,” was written originally for children and was entitled, “Come Children Join to Sing.”  It was written by Christian Henry Bateman, who also wrote a number of other children’s hymns...

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Steve Badskey Steve Badskey

Worship Arts Notes

We will celebrate All Saints Day at Christ Methodist Church this Sunday, November 3, at our 10:30 morning worship service. All Saints Day has been a part of the Christian calendar since the 5th century and serves as a time for remembering and honoring those believers who have preceded us in death...

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Worship Arts Notes
Steve Badskey Steve Badskey

Worship Arts Notes

It’s a song many of us have sung for as long as we can remember.  Victory in Jesus...

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Steve Badskey Steve Badskey

Worship Arts Notes

Edward Perronet was born in 1726 England, the grandson of a French immigrant.  He followed in his father’s footsteps and entered the ministry.  He became close friends with John and Charles Wesley, eventually leaving the Church of England and becoming a traveling Methodist minister...

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Worship Arts Notes
Steve Badskey Steve Badskey

Worship Arts Notes

Fanny Crosby (1820-1915) was blinded by an illness as an infant, but she lived a long life full of joy and accomplishment.  She entered the New York School for the Blind at age 15 and remained there for 35 years, first as a student and then as a teacher.

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