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HYMNS Incarnation 1 2 | TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRO PG. 5 PREPARATION PG. 7 ANNUNCIATION PG. 17 MAGNIFICATION PG. 29 INCARNATION PG. 41 3 4 | INTRO For hundreds of years it was quiet. Silence that I’m sure was deafening for those that longed to hear God’s voice, and to others the silence may have seemed like permission to think and do whatever they wanted to think and do. Either way, the tension of this silence was getting tighter and the longing and aching of the human heart was becoming louder. Soon, but not soon enough, the Word, God, would be- come skin, muscle and bone and live amongst us, showing us the glory of the Father and his deep love for the human heart. God, the symphony, full of complexity, movement, beauty and power, and infinite in His being, would become a song that we could all hear and see and sing, a folk song, intimate, close, and our hearts would burn inside us. But those before us would have to stand in an unbearable tension. As the human heart cried out for light to break into the dark the fullness of time had come, and God sent His son, born from a woman to buy back the human heart from its varying slaveries, so that we could be named by God alone as sons and daughters adopted and chosen in Christ. God stepped out of heaven and became a vulnerable breakable baby to push back the darkness of the world and call us out of the darkness into an unfathomable light. This gospel must be recalled over and over. We have short memories and are easily distracted with shine and glitter. So we must spend weekly, monthly and yearly rhythms reminding ourselves and each oth- ers of the gospel of Jesus, the power to save. We do this in moments by spending individual time with God, becoming vulnerable to the voice and presence of God in the scriptures. We do this weekly when we gather with the people of God and proclaim again the benefits of feasting on God and forsaking the world’s malnutrition. We also do this “gospel recalling” through the Church Calendar. The most simple way to explain this calendar is to see it as a yearly cycle. Advent is the season we recall longing for a Savior. Christmas is the celebration of the arrival of that Savior. Lent is the journey to the cross and death of that Savior. Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. Pentecost is the moment the Holy Spirit comes and Jesus builds His church in daily massive conversion. The church calendar is one more way to help our scattered minds remember, recall, and renew our love for Gods massive rescue plan. So here we stand in this Advent season, longing for a Savior we know will come. It’s not too difficult for many of us to already sense that longing even though the work of Jesus is complete. We stand in a new tension between the rebel feast and the wedding feast. Jesus’ work is done, but the Kingdom of God has not yet fully come. This season I want to invite anyone and everyone to journey with us through four weeks of Advent. Step inside the quiet, the longing, the expectation and finally the great fulfillment. It’s a little like holding your breath for a long time, waiting to exhale. If you are a human who is quite as broken as I, it becomes such a fresh and marvelous way to approach Christmas. The wide-eyed, jaw dropping, heart pumping miracle of God coming to us in our tattered state and giving our souls worth makes Christ- mas a new and unique celebration like no other! I pray each of us find the depth of meaning in each beautiful or painful moment in this Christmas season. Be present in the journey friends! Charlie Hall Frontline Worship and Liturgy Pastor 5 6 | BIBLE READING Notes/Thoughts/Impressions: Preparation OT: Isaiah 40:1-8 _______________________________________ Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. _______________________________________ Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, And cry to her That her warfare is ended, _______________________________________ That her iniquity is pardoned, That she has received from the Lord’s hand _______________________________________ Double for all her sins. A voice cries: _______________________________________ “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, _______________________________________ And every mountain and hill be made low; The uneven ground shall become level, _______________________________________ And the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, _______________________________________ And all flesh shall see it together, For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” _______________________________________ A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” _______________________________________ All flesh is grass, And all its beauty is like the flower of the field. _______________________________________ The grass withers, the flower fades When the breath of the Lord blows on it; Surely the people are grass. _______________________________________ The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God will stand forever. _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ 7 | BIBLE READING that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us; Preparation to show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant, the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to NT: Luke 1:5-17, 67-80 grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a our enemies, priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. might serve him without fear, And he had a wife from the daughters of Aar- in holiness and righteousness before him all on, and her name was Elizabeth. And they were our days. both righteous before God, walking blameless- And you, child, will be called the prophet of the ly in all the commandments and statutes of the Most High; Lord. But they had no child, because Elizabeth was for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, barren, and both were advanced in years. to give knowledge of salvation to his people Now while he was serving as priest before God in the forgiveness of their sins, when his division was on duty, according to the because of the tender mercy of our God, custom of the priesthood, he was chosen by whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn in- to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the cense. And the whole multitude of the people were shadow of death, praying outside at the hour of incense. And there to guide our feet into the way of peace.” appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and the right side of the altar of incense. And Zech- he was in the wilderness until the day of his public ariah was troubled when he saw him, and fear appearance to Israel. fell upon him. But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. And you will have joy and gladness, and many will re- Notes/Thoughts/Impressions: joice at his birth, for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from _______________________________________ his mother’s womb. And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God, and he _______________________________________ will go before him in the spirit and power of Eli- jah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to _______________________________________ make ready for the Lord a people prepared.” And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit _______________________________________ and prophesied, saying, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, _______________________________________ for he has visited and redeemed his people and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, _______________________________________ as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, 8 | DEVOTIONAL straight paths for these glad tidings, bring low the things that stand in the way and fill in the places Preparation that are waiting for life to move. Advent is to make the crooked paths around us straight and to usher in Jesus, God with us, to this season, our lives, our When my youngest daughter was three, I was hold- families, and our neighbors. This Advent, pre- ing her hand and we were walking from the house pare for the kingdom of God to move in the world to the car over an ice patch. She slipped and her around us! Anticipate, expect, and move toward legs flew up in the air and her whole body went His work to stand in places that are in deep dark- stiff for a moment. I held her hand all the tighter ness. God can do anything at any time. Like the knowing exactly where we had come from and twinkle of Christmas lights against a black sky, the where we were going. I pulled her air suspended kingdom of God is pressing into our world through body to a dry patch and landed her safely.
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