Worship Services

The Rev. Dr. Agnes W. Norfleet preaching a sermon at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church

Most services of worship at BMPC include the preaching of a sermon, usually by one of the pastors of the church. A sermon is not a moral or spiritual essay, nor is it precisely the opinion of the preacher. Rather, it is the preacher’s attempt, guided by grace and the Holy Spirit, to lift up a passage of Scripture, and illuminate it with meaning, giving it the power to shape our own faith journey and call us into deeper discipleship.

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Sunday, January 15, 2023

The Rev. Dr. Agnes Norfleet

The Art of Introducing

BrynMawrPres · Sunday, January 15, 2023 Sermon- The Art of Introducing By The Rev. Dr. Agnes W. Norfleet

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Prelude: Ascension Suite
Music: Sharon J. Willis (b. 1949). Music: ©2022 The Leupold Foundation. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Anthem: Jesu, Bright and Morning Star
Text: George R. Woodward (1848-1934); Catherine Winkworth (1827-1878). Music: Leo Sowerby (1895-1968). Music: ©1959, ren. 1987 H.T. FitzSimons Company (a div. of Fred Bock Publishing Group, Glendale, CA).

Hymn: The Church of Christ Cannot Be Bound
Text: Adam M. L. Tice, 2005. Music: African American spiritual; Jubilee Songs, 1884; adapt. Henry T. Burleigh, 1940. Text: ©2005 GIA Publications, Inc. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Offertory Anthem: We Shall Overcome
Text: American freedom song. Music: arr. Tom Trenney, 2016. Music: ©2016 Augsburg Fortress. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Postlude: Festal March
Music: Florence B. Price, 1951. Music: ©1951 Lorenz Music. Music: ©1995 ClarNan Editions, Inc. All rights reserved.

Sunday, January 8, 2023

The Rev. Dr. Agnes Norfleet

When We Sing

BrynMawrPres · Sunday, January 8, 2023 Sermon- When We Sing By The Rev. Dr. Agnes W. Norfleet

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Hymn: When the Morning Stars Together
Text: Albert F. Bayly, 1966, alt. Music: German melody; harm. Tochter Sion, 1741. Text: ©1966 Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

Anthem: He Comes to Us
Text: Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), from “The Quest of the Historical Jesus” (used by permission of The MacMillan Company, N.Y., N.Y., 1948, and A & C Black, Ltd., London, UK). Music: Jane M. Marshall (1924-2019). Text & Music: ©1957 Carl Fischer Music, Inc., N.Y., N.Y. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Hymn: God Is Calling through the Whisper
Text: Mary Louise Bringle, 2003. Music: Polish carol; harm. Wilbur Lee, 1958. Text: ©2006 GIA Publications, Inc. Music Harm: ©1958 Broadman Press (admin. Music Services). Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Hymn: When in Our Music God Is Glorified
Text: Fred Pratt Green, 1972, alt. Music: Charles Villiers Stanford, 1904,. alt. Text: ©1972 Hope Publishing Company. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Sunday, January 1, 2023

The Rev. Rachel Pedersen

Steadfast

BrynMawrPres · Sunday, January 1, 2023 Sermon- Steadfast By The Rev. Rachel Pedersen

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Prelude: Two settings of The Old Year Is Passed Away
Music: Marcel Dupré, 1931. Music: ©1932 H.W. Gray Publications, Inc.
(a div. of Jubilate Music Group, Brentwood, TN). All rights reserved.
Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Response: On Those Who Sit in Darkness
Text: Michael Perry, 1973, alt. Music: Hal H. Hopson, 1983. Text: ©1973 The Jubilate Group (admin. Hope Publishing Company). Music: ©1983 Hope Publishing Company.
Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-716211. All rights reserved.

Anthem: A New Year Carol
Text: Walter de la Mare, 1934. Music: Benjamin Britten, 1936. Music: ©1936 Boosey & Co., Ltd. Music Arr: ©1971 Boosey & Co., Ltd. (a div. of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, Ltd.). All rights reserved.

Hymn: Go, Tell It at the Mountain
Music Harm. © 1989 Melva Wilson Costen