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

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

Malachi 3:1-4, Luke 3:1-6

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.