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Guitarchestra highlights 09.15.13

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“Highlights?” You say. “When the Guitarchestra plays, it’s *all* highlights!” This, of course, is true. Nonetheless, I felt it my...

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April 28, 2013 Guitarchestra & Co

Sunday was a nice, low key Sunday that saw God’s people at COS doing what God’s people do on a...

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Year End Extravaganza

COS’s choral year finished up this Sunday, and I must say we went out in style. First up was a...

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Easter 2013 Musical Highlights

After the descent of Lent into Holy Week, the Easter morning worship service is a joyful resurrection, and at COS...

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Liturgy Lesson: There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy

Lent is a time of penitence, but like too much in our spiritual lives, we often try to do it...

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For the Mountains Shall Depart (Hank Beebe)

On March 10, Jack was preaching on oaths (Mt 5:33-37), so I simply pulled out my file of oath hymns...

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How We Roll

The COS Guitarchestra led worship on Sunday. It was a fairly typical service in many ways, but one of those...

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Liturgy Lesson: Hard Work

I have a friend who claims that churches which sing only quickly learned, easily understood songs display a lazy, self-centered...

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New Psalm Sunday

COS has hosted an annual New Psalm Contest for the last three years. We plan the premiere of the winning...

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Liturgy Lesson: Magnificat

On this first day of the liturgical New Year, and throughout Advent, we’ll be singing a Magnificat instead of the...

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Liturgy Lesson: A New Hymnal?

Churches mark time with hymnals, their collective memory shaped by each new season of song. This summer a new era...

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2012 Lessons & Carols

We gathered Sunday night to hear and sing the story of God’s love, from the garden to the manger. One...

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