First Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
Cookeville, Tennessee

Music

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September 12th

VOLUNTARY                                 Variation on “Lost Love”                                 David Maslanka

                                                        Jonathan Holland, marimba                Paul Thurmond, Organist

ANTHEM                                                     Psalm 27                                            Robert E. Kreutz

One thing I ask of the Lord, and this I seek:

To dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

One thing I ask of the Lord, and this I seek:

That I may gaze on the loveliness of the Lord and contemplate his temple.

The Lord is my light and my salvation; then whom shall I fear?

The Lord is my strength and my refuge; of whom should I be afraid?    

OFFERTORY                             Prelude on “Be Thou My Vision”                       David Gillingham  

September 5th

Offertory ANTHEM                        New Life                                                Robert A. Hobby

New life you grant, O God, at birth to ev’ry creature on the earth.

As eyelids wake and breath takes air, each miracle of life you share.

New life again you freely give that all baptized in you may live.

Through water, Spirit, Word divine, the cross of Christ will be our sign.

As life unfolds throughout our years, your grace sustains in joy and tears.

May we be faithful to your call by reaching, serving, loving all.

As when these days on earth shall cease, our eyelids close, breath finds release,

You greet us at this journey’s end, and offer yet new life again.

August 29th

ANTHEM                                  There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy                          Maurice Bevan

                                                       Text: Frederick William Faber

There’s a wideness in God’s mercy like the wideness of the sea;

There’s a kindness in his justice which is more than liberty.

There is no place where earth’s sorrows are more felt than up in heaven;

There is no place where earth’s failings have such kindly judgement given.

For the love of God is broader than the measure of man’s mind;

And the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind.

But we make his love too narrow by false limits of our own;

And we magnify his strictness with a zeal he will not own.

There is plentiful redemption in the blood that has been shed;

There is joy for all the members in the sorrows of the Head.

There is grace enough for thousands of new worlds as great as this;

There is room for fresh creations in that upper home of bliss.

If our love were but more simple we should take him at his word;

And our lives would be all gladness in the joy of Christ our Lord.