Message Series: Advent 2020: Promise and Fulfillment
The Incarnation Through the Eyes of CS Lewis
John 1:1-4,14
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Order of Worship and Song Lyrics
PRE-SERVICE: – GATHERING MUSIC… JEFF
WELCOME AND OPENING PRAYER: JEFF
SONG: “HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING”
HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING
GLORY TO THE NEWBORN KING
PEACE ON EARTH, AND MERCY MILD
GOD AND SINNERS RECONCILED
JOYFUL, ALL YE NATIONS, RISE
JOIN THE TRIUMPH OF THE SKIES
WITH ANGELIC HOST PROCLAIM
CHRIST IS BORN IN BETHLEHEM
HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING
GLORY TO THE NEWBORN KING
CHRIST, BY HIGHEST HEAV’N ADORED
CHRIST THE EVERLASTING LORD
LATE IN TIME BEHOLD HIM COME
OFFSPRING OF A VIRGIN’S WOMB
VEILED IN FLESH THE GODHEAD SEE
HAIL TH’INCARNATE DEITY
PLEASED AS MAN WITH MAN TO DWELL
JESUS, OUR EMMANUEL
HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING
GLORY TO THE NEWBORN KING
HAIL THE HEAV’N-BORN PRINCE OF PEACE
HAIL THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
LIGHT AND LIFE TO ALL HE BRINGS
RIS’N WITH HEALING IN HIS WINGS
MILD HE LAYS HIS GLORY BY
BORN THAT MAN NO MORE MAY DIE
BORN TO RAISE THE SONS OF EARTH
BORN TO GIVE THEM SECOND BIRTH
HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING
GLORY TO THE NEWBORN KING
SONG: “O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL”
O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL, JOYFUL AND TRIUMPHANT!
O COME YE, O COME YE, TO BETHLEHEM
COME AND BEHOLD HIM
BORN THE KING OF ANGELS
O COME, LET US ADORE HIM
O COME, LET US ADORE HIM
O COME, LET US ADORE HIM
CHRIST THE LORD
SING, CHOIRS OF ANGELS, SING IN EXULTATION
SING, ALL YE CITIZENS OF HEAVEN ABOVE!
GLORY TO GOD
ALL GLORY IN THE HIGHEST
O COME, LET US ADORE HIM
O COME, LET US ADORE HIM
O COME, LET US ADORE HIM
CHRIST THE LORD
YEA, LORD, WE GREET THEE, BORN THIS HAPPY MORNING
JESUS, TO THEE BE GLORY GIVEN
WORD OF THE FATHER
NOW IN FLESH APPEARING
O COME, LET US ADORE HIM
O COME, LET US ADORE HIM
O COME, LET US ADORE HIM
CHRIST THE LORD
RESPONSIVE READING: JEFF (PSALM 146 AND ISAIAH 35)
LEADER: BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE HOPE IS IN THE LORD THEIR GOD.
PEOPLE: STRENGTHEN THE FEEBLE HANDS, STEADY THE KNEES THAT GIVE WAY; SAY TO THOSE WITH FEARFUL HEARTS, “BE STRONG, DO NOT FEAR; YOUR GOD WILL COME TO SAVE YOU.”
LEADER: HE IS THE MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE SEA, AND EVERYTHING IN THEM – HE REMAINS FAITHFUL FOREVER.
PEOPLE: THE LORD SETS PRISONERS FREE. OPENS THE EYES OF THE BLIND. UNSTOPS THE EARS OF THE DEAF. HE LIFTS UP THOSE WHO ARE BOWED DOWN. SUSTAINS THE FATHERLESS AND THE WIDOW. FRUSTRATES THE WAYS OF THE WICKED.
LEADER: PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD. MAKE A HIGHWAY IN THE DESERT LAND.
PEOPLE: IT WILL BE CALLED THE WAY OF HOLINESS. THE LORD HAS MADE THIS PATHWAY KNOWN.
PRAYER: MARK
MESSAGE: THE INCARNATION THROUGH THE EYES OF CS LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY AND DR JERRY ROOT
SONG RESPONSE: “COME THOUGH LONG EXPECTED JESUS”
COME, THOU LONG EXPECTED JESUS
BORN TO SET THY PEOPLE FREE
FROM OUR FEARS AND SINS RELEASE US
LET US FIND OUR REST IN THEE
ISRAEL’S STRENGTH AND CONSOLATION
HOPE OF ALL THE EARTH THOU ART
DEAR DESIRE OF EVERY NATION
JOY OF EVERY LONGING HEART
BORN THY PEOPLE TO DELIVER
BORN A CHILD AND YET A KING
BORN TO REIGN IN US FOREVER
NOW THY GRACIOUS KINGDOM BRING
BY THINE OWN ETERNAL SPIRIT
RULE IN ALL OUR HEARTS ALONE
BY THINE ALL SUFFICIENT MERIT
RAISE US TO THY GLORIOUS THRONE
CLOSING ANNOUNCEMENTS AND PARTING BLESSING: PASTOR MARK
T/Y TO THE MANY WHO HAVE BEEN WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES TO PULL OFF OUR WEEKLY LIVESTREAM AND AUDIOVISUAL TECH NEEDED: VINCE HUFFAKER, JOE AND MARGARET VANANDEL, AND ERIC NIENHOUSE.