Promise

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

Contemporary Music

• Come As You Are – CCLI 7017790
• Light of the World (Sing Hallelujah) – CCLI 7163734

• 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

Micah 5:2-5a, Luke 1:26-38

The promise we celebrate, the promise we live into is that God will be, has been, and is with us. Let us move into the Christmas season embracing this promise and seeing God at work in us and around us. Amen.

• Gentle Shepherd W&S 3096
• That Boy-Child of Mary UMH 241
• Star Child TFWS 2095
• My Soul Gives Glory to My God UMH 198
• Love Has Come W&S 3059
• Canticle of the Turning; Available through One License
• Goodness of God CCLI # 7117726
• We Labor Unto Glory CCLI # 7097869