Theme Hymns and Songs for the Series

Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus UMH 196
Refiner’s Fire CCLI# 426298
I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light UMH 206

Service Music

O Come, All Ye Faithful – Refrain only UMH 234
The First Song of Isaiah TFWS 2030
Doxologies and Offertory Responses for Advent and Christmas
Advent Sanctus
Handbell and Piano Scores for Christmas Eve and Post-Christmas Season
Two New Advent Pieces for Choir and Congregation
Carol Improvisations for Christmas Worship

Music for Candlelighting Liturgy

At the end of each week’s candlelighting liturgy as a congregational action all may sing

O Come All Ye Faithful, UMH 234 – refrain only
He Came Down, TFWS 2085 – follow this order of verses: hope, joy, peace, love (be saved)
I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light UMH 206 – play verse quietly underscoring the reading and lead them to sing the refrain “In Him there is no darkness...”

Music Notes

I Samuel 2:18-20, 26, Luke 2:15-21

It’s time to go home. But we go home transformed and being further transformed. We go home and carry a part of our gathering – love of family, shared worship, traditions, and new observances – with us as we go. Emmanuel goes with us; it is what the name means, after all. Encountering Emmanuel in this glorious Christmas season has a transformative effect. Our gatherings have changed; our homes have changed; we have changed. And it is still time to go home. Let us go in hope; let us go in joy; let us go glorifying and praising God.