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Blessings In and Through Your Advent Worship!
It is always a refreshing time for me when the family gathers around the Thanksgiving table to individually and corporately give thanks for the countless and continuing
blessings that HE flows upon us. At the same time the scriptures of a fading Pentecost season direct our attention to the anticipation of HIS second coming and the transition to a new Church year that heralds the Advent voice of John the Baptist calling us to repentance. Advent is a wonderful time of worship! I love the advent hymns and their message of hope. The tunes are already humming through my lips. The words are swirling in my mind and heart. Let me share with you some of that swirling and humming by letting seventeen of our Advent hymn titles from our Lutheran Service Book proclaim the message of Advent. The hymn titles in four Advent parts:
HE’s Coming!
The Advent of Our King (#331), Savior of the Nations, Come (#332),
Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus (#338), Come, Thou Precious Ransom, Come (#350),
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (#357), The King Shall Come When Morning
Dawns (#348), Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending (#336)
Prepare!
O Lord, How Shall I Meet You (#334), On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist’s Cry (#344),
Hark! A Thrilling Voice is Sounding (#345), Prepare the Royal Highway (#343),
Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates (#341)
Hope!
The Night Will Soon be Ending (#337), Comfort, Comfort Ye My People (#347)
Rejoice!
Hark the Glad Sound (#349), Jesus Came, The Heavens Adoring (#353),
Let the Earth Now Praise the Lord (#352)
May your Advent be one of joyful worship as you sing to HIS praise and anticipate
HIS coming to you through Word and Sacrament. Make a joyful Noise! Sing unto the Lord!
– President Jim Keurulainen