O Come, O Come Emmanuel is one of my favourite hymns at any time, let alone Christmas. (As anyone who has ever been around to listen when I’ve sung it well knows.) There’s about fourteen or fifteen versions of this in my iTunes library. Sadly it doesn’t get included in corporate worship very much because …
This is a Santa free zone. But Saint Nicholas is welcome. The best thing about this is it’s true. Look it up. Or just ask Arius.
Long Ago Prophets Knew was featured on an Advent themed episode of Songs of Praise which I watched last night. I want to explore Advent themed songs for this week, at least. A relatively contemporary set of words authored by Fred Pratt Green, set to Gustav Holst’s arrangement of Personnet Hodie, the expectancy of the …
We’re not following Advent as a specific season at mgpc, but I have come to appreciate the benefit of balancing the ubiquitous and unavoidable exposure to sentimental expressions of the birth of Jesus to which Christians are exposed at this time of year with songs and material which ground Jesus first coming in redemptive history, …
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