A Service of Lessons and Carols December 9, 2012

8:30 a.m. and 10:55 a.m.

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A Service of Lessons and Carols The Second Sunday of Advent Sunday, December 9, 2012
8:30 and 10:55 a.m. GREETING AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 8:30 Robert Usherwood 10:55 Dan McLendon

LIGHTING THE ADVENT CANDLES 8:30 The Segers Family 10:55 The Hanley Family Declaration of PEACE We light our second candle as a symbol of the PEACE of the prophets, who pointed to the Messiah. We nd our peace in the Son whom God sends to bring hope, peace, joy and love to the world. Our one and only savior, Jesus Christ, is our peace. *OPENING HYMN #49

Once In Royal Davids City

2Stanza 1: Choir; Stanzas 2-4: All

IRBY

Dr. Dennis Tedder *CALL TO WORSHIP (Ruth Manz, alt.) Peace be to you and grace from him who freed us from our sins, Who loved us all, and shed his blood, that we might be saved. Sing holy, holy to our Lord, the Lord Almighty God, Who was and is, and is to come; sing holy, holy Lord! Rejoice in heaven, all you that dwell therein! Rejoice on earth, you saints below! For Christ is coming soon. Even so, Lord Jesus, quickly come, and night shall be no more; They need no light, nor lamp, nor sun, for Christ will be their All! FIRST LESSON: Genesis 3:8-15, 17-19 *CAROL #2 SECOND LESSON: Genesis 22:15-18 *CAROL #48 THIRD LESSON: Isaiah 9:2, 6-7 *CAROL #9

God Speaks with Adam Gods promise to Abraham

Dr. Dennis Tedder HYFRYDOL Mary Jahn Meriwether Burrell Debby Stone Jennifer Walker

LongCome, Thou Long-Expected Jesus

Lo, How a Rose Eer Blooming ES IST EIN ROS ENTSPRUNGEN The Prophet foretells the coming of the Savior O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

VENI EMMANUEL 10:55-Children are to be dismissed for Extended Session at the beginning of this carol. Ron Matheson Carl Schalk

FOURTH LESSON: Isaiah 11:1-3a, 4a, 6-9 The Peace of Christ is foreshown ANTHEM

Before the Marvel of This Night Before the marvel of this night, adoring, fold your wings and bow, Then tear the sky apart with light and with the news your world endow. Proclaim the birth of Christ and peace, that fear and death and sorrow cease: sing peace, sing gift of peace! Awake the sleeping world with song, this is the day the Lord has made. Assemble here, celestial throng, in royal splendor come arrayed. Give earth a glimpse of heavnly bliss, a teasing taste of what they miss: Sing bliss, sing endless bliss!

The love that we have always known, our constant joy and endless light, Now to the loveless world be shown, now break upon its deathly night. Into one song compress the love that rules the universe above: Sing love, sing God is love!
-Jaroslav J. Vajda

PRESENTATON OF OFFERINGS/PRAYER OF DEDICATION FIFTH LESSON: Luke 1:26-35, 38 *CAROL (Insert) SIXTH LESSON: Luke 2:1, 3-7 ANTHEM

Dr. Dennis Tedder Dr. Dennis Tedder STAR OF COUNTY DOWN Peter Haley

The Angel Gabriel visits Mary Canticle of the Turning

2Stanza 1: Choir; Stanzas 2-4: All

Lukes Birth Story

Ben Allaway Sing, Angels, Kings, and Folk What did the angels see when they looked down upon this ordinary town? What could a humble village have in store with heavenly legions winging oer? What did the star reveal in the night? A woman in her plight, a husband searching for an open door. What did the oxen see that bade them low? It wasnt time to plough or tow. Who were these strangers huddling from the cold, a mother young, the father old? What simple comfort could they hope to nd to ease her in her time, a mangers warmth, a sleeping lamb to hold. What glorious voices woke the shepherds then in joys cascading cross the heavn? What message brought them running to the town to join the welcome gathring round? Sing alleluia to this King newborn to save the meek and worn, both lamb and shepherd to the lost, the found. How all the angels still take up the song across the world wide and long. The star-anointed path is bright ahead for those who seek the manger bed. Sing, angels, kings, and folk, from town and hill your alleluias still, believe, believe, believe and let the Spirit song be fed. Alleluia, alleluia!
-Ben Allaway

SEVENTH LESSON: Luke 2:8-16 ANTHEM

The shepherds go to the manger

Tracey Ramsey Margo Cooke

Craig Courtney Where Shepherds Lately Knelt Where shepherds lately knelt, and kept the angels word, I come in half belief, a pilgrim strangely stirred; but there is room and welcome there for me. In that unlikely place I nd Him as they said: sweet newborn Babe, how frail! and in a manger bed: a still small Voice to cry one day for me. How should I not have known Isaiah would be there, his prophecies fullled? With pounding heart I stare: a Child, a Son, the Prince of Peace for me. Can I, will I forget how Love was born and burned its way into my heart unasked, unforced, unearned, to die, to live, and not alone for me?
-Jaroslav J. Vajda

ANTHEM

Glenn Rudolph The Dream Isaiah Saw Lions and oxen will sleep in the hay, leopards will join with the lambs as they play, wolves will be pastured with cows in the glade, blood will not darken the earth that God made. Little child whose bed is straw, take new lodgings in my heart. Bring the dream Isaiah saw: life redeemed from fang and claw. Peace will pervade more than forest and eld: God will transgure the Violence concealed deep in the heart and in systems of gain, ripe for the judgment the Lord will ordain. Little child whose bed is straw, take new lodgings in my heart. Bring the dream Isaiah saw: justice purifying law. Nature reordered to match Gods intent, nations obeying the call to repent, all of creation completely restored, lled with the knowledge and love of the Lord. Little child whose bed is straw, take new lodgings in my heart. Bring the dream Isaiah saw: knowledge, wisdom, worship, awe. -Tom Troeger

EIGHTH LESSON: Matthew 2:1-12 ANTHEM

The wise men are led by the star The First Nowell

Dr. Dennis Tedder David Gray

arr. Mack Wilberg The text for this anthem can be found at #56 in The Presbyterian Hymnal.

NINTH LESSON: John 1:1-14 *CAROL #40

The Word was made esh Joy to the World!

Peter Haley ANTIOCH Dr. Dennis Tedder MENDELSSOHN

2Stanza 1: All; Stanzas 2-3: Choir; Stanza 4: All *CLOSING PRAYER AND BENEDICTION *CAROL #31

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Go into the world to love and serve the Lord.
Musicians assisting in worship today: Alex Spainhour, violin Kay Gilbert, violin Angie Jones, viola Kristeen Slice, cello Reed Gallo, trumpet John Cooper, trumpet Christina Cornell, horn Joey Lee, trombone John Holloway, tuba Bette Ann Braeutigam, organ The Chancel Choir Peter Haley, Director of Music

The sanctuary owers are given to the glory of God and in memory of Anna Pickens by her family.