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Monday, October 30th: Scripture – 1 Thessalonians 2:1-2
1 You yourselves know, brothers and sisters, that our coming to you was not in vain, 2 but though we had already suffered and been shamefully mistreated at Philippi, as you know, we had courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in spite of great opposition. Prayer Focus: Paul reminds…
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Sunday, October 29th: Hymn – When in Our Music God is Glorified
Prayer Focus: As we sing God’s story in worship today, we conclude with a full orchestra and choir version of “When in Our Music God is Glorified.” Pray that you might glorify God as you sing with your heart, your life, and your music today. #FortMillUnity #FortMillSC
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Saturday, October 28th: Hymn – On Pentecost They Gathered
Prayer Focus: Today we get the majestic hymn, with full accompaniment by brass and organ for Pentecost. It reminds us that there is a place for each of us as we sing God’s story. Whether we sing, play, wear a robe, or just hum along in our pews, we are part of singing this story.…
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Friday, October 27th: Hymn – Woman Weeping in the Garden
Prayer Focus: Our Easter Hymns are usually big and triumphant for Jesus Christ is risen today! “Women Weeping in the Garden” is a powerful Easter hymn with its contrast to that typical grand beginning. Listen to this hymn as it begins with a single female voice weeping, but then as the news of Jesus’ resurrection…
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Thursday, October 26th: Hymn – We Sang our Glad Hosannas
Prayer Focus: We move quickly this week from Christ’s birth to his final arrival as an adult to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday with “We Sang our Glad Hosannas.” I suspect this might be a new arrangement for you with drums, guitars, and piano, but it captures the flurry that must have accompanied Jesus and his…
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Wednesday, October 25: Hymn – Gentle Mary Laid Her Child
Prayer Focus: As we sing God’s story, we move from Advent to Christmas with this simple and yet elegant version of the hymn Gentle Mary Laid Her Child. It seems to capture the awe, mystery, and wonder of God becoming human and yet the ordinary, simple manger in which Christ was laid because there was…
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Tuesday, October 24: Hymn – O Lord, How Shall I Meet You
Tuesday, October 24: Hymn – O Lord, How Shall I Meet You https://youtu.be/VIORD3pYfSI?si=QDOUPw6Y0utInHp_ Prayer Focus: We begin the liturgical year with Advent, a season of expectation and hope. We anticipate Christ’s birth, or advent, in Bethlehem so many years ago. Yet, as the third verse of the hymn reminds us, we also live “in patient…
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Monday, October 23: Hymn – O Sing a Song of Bethlehem
Monday, October 23: Hymn – O Sing a Song of Bethlehem https://youtu.be/0BFaxBEg5vs?si=TC0TG3ThVVmkiEEK Prayer Focus: This Sunday we are going to sing God’s story with hymns, scripture, poetry, readings, and prayers that walk us through the Christian liturgical or worship year. In preparation, each day’s devotions this week links to one of the hymns we will…
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Sunday, October 22: Scripture – Ephesians 3:20-21
Sunday, October 22: Scripture – Ephesians 3:20-21 20 Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. Prayer Focus: I…
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Saturday, October 21: Scripture – Jeremiah 1:10
Saturday, October 21: Scripture – Jeremiah 1:10 10 See, today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.” Prayer Focus: Earlier in this series we reflected on how telling the truth can be difficult and demanding. Initially Jeremiah’s…