Oh Righteous Branch is from A Seed, A Sunrise a collection of Advent themed songs by Caroline Cobb. The lyrics reflect portions of Scripture from Isaiah, Second Samuel, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Malachi. This video features the studio recording of the song. The lyrics: 1 Oh righteous branch from Jesse’s root Please come and bring your …

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December means Christmas Songs, which, if you were liturgically inclined are also mostly Advent songs. Each year on this date I refer to Andrew Peterson’s Behold The Lamb Of God album, which wonderfully expresses the sense of longing and hope which are only fulfilled through both the first and second comings of the Lord Jesus. …

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The final day of the twelve days of Christmas (and this season of Christmas songs) is also known as Ephiphany. The focus (principally) seems to be on the visitors who came to honour the one born to be king. Whether they were kings, wise men, sages, or scholars and whether there were three or more …

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This is the second last day of the twelve days of Christmas. An appropriate choice of song is As With Gladness Men Of Old, with its theme of the visitors from afar who came to honour the birth of the one born to be king. Somewhat curiously to me, As With Gladness hasn’t had as …

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