Having celebrated the Lord’s Supper at worship today, what better way to close worship (and acknowledge Jesus’ first and second comings) than singing Christ Is Coming! Let Creation… John Ross Macduff’s lyrics, coupled with Joachim Neander’s classic tune, Neander (naturally) couples well with the themes of Communion itself, which bids Christians look back to the …
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.
Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending is another example of the way in which the theology of the second coming of Jesus mitigates any tendency toward sentimentalization when His first coming is celebrated. Charles Wesley revised and reworked John Cennick’s original lyrics, which were then altered by Martin Madan. Madan also adapted the tune Hemsley …
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