December 29, 2014
Christmastide
The congregation gathered to pray, to hear Scripture, and to sing Christmas carols and hymns.
…The congregation gathered to pray, to hear Scripture, and to sing Christmas carols and hymns.
…Today, the children (and some adults) acted out the Christmas story with a lot of help from Brenda and Dave.
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Jesse offered some thoughts in words and in music on preparing for the coming of Christ in this Advent season. The text of this sermon is not available.
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we have childhood memories of preparing for Christmas but what about Advent? Do we have childhood memories of Advent as a season? We might if our parents were religious. We might have had a little ritual each week when we lit another of the four candles. We might have had an Advent calendar and enjoyed opening a little door each day to find a religious symbol or a Bible verse. But I suspect most of us did not really celebrate the season of Advent per se when we were children. Advent might not even have been mentioned. It got lost in our excitement over preparing for Christmas. We didn't think, "Wow! It's Advent!" What we thought was "Seventeen more days until Christmas!"
National touring artists Joe Jencks, Greg Greenway and Pat Wictor have made their mark as veteran singer-songwriters, but Brother Sun is no songwriter’s round. The trio’s harmonies, as much as their lyrics, tell what they are about: warm as a campfire, stirring as a gospel church, rousing as a call to arms. Fusing folk, Americana, blues, pop, jazz, rock, and a cappella singing, Brother Sun is an explosion of musical diversity and harmony, in the finest of male singing traditions.