John calls people to repent, to clear the decks, to completely reorder their lives so that nothing gets in the way of the Lord’s coming. The reading from Isaiah gives the context for this radical call: the assurance of forgiveness that encourages us to repent; the promise that the coming one will be gentle with the little ones. Isaiah calls us all to be heralds with John, to lift up our voices fearlessly and say, “See, your God is coming!” We say it to one another in worship, in order to say it with our lives in a world in need of justice and peace.
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O Come, O Come, Emmanuel; Text: Psalteriolum Cantionum Catholicarum, tr. composite; Music: VENI EMMANUEL, French processional
Awake! Awake, and Greet the New Morn; Text: Marty Haugen; Music: REJOICE, REJOICE, Marty Haugen; Text and Music © 1983 GIA Publications, Inc.
Advent Carol, CCLI Song
#7228251; Words and music by Beth Kenreich; © 2023 Choristers Guild
O Little Town of Bethlehem; Text: Phillips Brooks; Music: ST. LOUIS, Lewis H. Redner
Away in a Manger; Text: North American; Music: AWAY IN A MANGER, James R. Murray
O Holy Night; Text: John S. Dwight; Music: CANTIQUE DE NOEL, Adolphe Adam
Angels We Have Heard on High; Text: French carol; tr. H. F. Hemy; Music: GLORIA, French carol
Go Tell It on the Mountain; Text: African American spiritual, refrain; John W. Work Jr.; Music: GO TELL IT, African American spiritual
Joy to the World; Text: Isaac Watts; Music: ANTIOCH, English melody, arr. Lowell Mason
Silent Night, Holy Night!; Text: Joseph Mohr, tr. John F. Young; Music: STILLE NACHT, Franz Gruber
On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry; Text: Charles Coffin, tr. composite; Music: PUER NOBIS, European tune, adapt. Michael Praetorius
Light One Candle to Watch for Messiah; Text: Wayne L. Wold; Music: TIF IN VELDELE, Yiddish folk tune; Text © 1984 Fortress Press, admin. Augsburg Fortress
Freedom Is Coming; Text: South African, adapt. Living Springs Lutheran Church; Music: FREEDOM IS COMING, South African; Text and Music © 1984 Utryck, admin. Walton Music Corp
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