Music Notes – October 6, 2024, World Communion Sunday
This morning, we sample music from outside what I like to call the Dead White European Male choral tradition. There's nothing wrong with said tradition, to be clear, and I love that music truly and deeply. However, music from outside that well-loved, well-known canon...
Music Notes for Sunday, September 29, 2024
Our music today takes its cue from Psalm 90. In 1708, Isaac Watts wrote both text and music for "Our God Whose Help in Ages Past," paraphrasing the words of the Psalm, in celebration of his wife's recovery from illness. So, the Psalm's famous opening lines: Lord, you...
Music Notes for Sunday, September 15, 2024
This morning, easily the choir's favorite part of the music we took over to Oxford this summer - Charles Villiers Stanford's setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis texts which we sang for Evensong at Christ Church in that magical city. This pair of settings...
Music Notes for Sunday, September 8, 2024
As you might know, the choir is back from England where we had a grand time. You'll be happy to know that the fifteen folks who went across the pond to sing at Christ Church Oxford were exemplary ambassadors for Trinity, North Carolina, and the United States. Now that...
Montreat 2024
Montreat October 11-13, 2024Make plans to join your Trinity family in the beautiful mountains of N.C. for this special weekend of fellowship and spiritual renewal! [button...
Jesus, the Unbinder
Steve Lindsley John 11: 1-45 (selected verses) The movie Patch Adams is based on the story of Hunter Adams, a doctor who used his personal experience and pain to treat mentally ill patients with the healing medicine of humor. There is one scene where Patch visits a...
Music Notes from Justin for May 26
Music Notes Sunday, May 26, 2024 For the introit, one last bit of music from the Anglican tradition, as we wrap up our choral season in worship - William Byrd's set of verses and responses. This is an integral part of any Anglian evensong service, consisting of a...
Music at Trinity Concert Series
MUSIC AT TRINITY presents MUSIC OF THE FRENCH BAROQUE North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, Frances Blaker, director Royal Voices of Charlotte, Justin Smith, director Saturday, May 18, 7:30 pm Trinity Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, NC Tickets $20/$10 Students The majesty...
When Grace Doesn’t Feel Graceful
Steve Lindsley Exodus 16: 2-15, Matthew 20: 1-16 Scripture tells us that “the first shall be last and the last shall be first.” Where you are in any given situation plays a large role in determining how you feel about that. As a Panthers, Hornets and Wake Forest...
Move Closer
Steve Lindsley Ephesians 2: 11-22 The family table is set up in the dining room. Or the kitchen, or maybe the screened-in porch outside. Wherever it is, meals are consumed there; stories shared, lives made real. A table where each one gathered around it is held up...