Opening Hymn: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks

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Advent Reading: Luke 2:4-20

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Song: Angels We Have Heard On High (Lyrics Below)

Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o'er the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echo back their joyous strains

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Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Gloria in Excelsis Deo

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Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong
Say what may the tidings be
Which inspire your heavenly song

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Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Gloria in Excelsis Deo

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Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing
Come, adore on bended knee
Christ, the Lord, the new-born King

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Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Gloria in Excelsis Deo

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Song: Word of God Speak

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Sermon: Advent: Through the Eyes of the Shepherds

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Song: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Lyrics Below)

God rest you merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay
Remember Christ our Savior was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan's power when we were gone astray
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy, O tidings of comfort and joy

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From God our heavenly Father, a blessed angel came
And unto certain shepherds, brought tiding of the same
How that in Bethlehem was born, the Son of God by name
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy, O tidings of comfort and joy

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Now to the Lord, sing praises, all you within this place
And with true love and brotherhood, each other now embrace
This holy tide of Christmas all others doth deface
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy, O tidings of comfort and joy

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Closing Hymn: From Heaven Above To Earth I Come (Note: The doctrine and lyrics in this old hymn are amazing!)

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Benediction

God the Father, Who loved the world so much that He sent His only Son,

give you grace to prepare for eternal life.

God the Son, Who comes to us as Redeemer and Judge,

reveal to you the path from darkness to light.

God the Holy Spirit, by Whose working the virgin Mary conceived the Christ,

help you bear the fruits of holiness.  Amen.

 

Have a blessed week, everybody!

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