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
Often, we choose to skip Advent and get right to Christmas. This getting ready thing can be difficult. Painful. We don’t like the idea of being washed with fuller’s soap, whatever that is. The silversmith will tell you that the metal is ready to be worked into shape, to be used for the jeweler’s purpose when he can see his face reflected. When all the world gives back the song that now angels sing: that’s when we’ll know.
- A Place at the Table W&S 3149
- Prepare the Way of the Lord UMH 207
- I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light UMH 206
- People, Look East UMH 202
- Like a Child TFWS 2092
- Refiner’s Fire CCLI# 426298