New Life's Worship Service on December 4th, 2022, the Second Sunday in Advent

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Before Service Prayer: My Savior and my King, You bring joy to my heart this season. You came to earth to live and die in my place. Your victory over sin and death belong to me through faith. Help me now also to find joy in living for You. As we find joy in doing things for others, help us to find joy in amending our sinful lives and "producing fruits in keeping with repentance". Give us the wisdom to see that if we repent of our sins, yet continue in them, we are not truly penitent. So that I may be genuinely repentant, send Your Holy Spirit to work in me sorrow over my sin, faith in You as my only Savior and a life which is new and different, lived to Your glory. I ask this in Your name. Amen.

Today's Theme: In 1934, sixteen years after he had introduced to King's College, Cambridge, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols for Christmas Eve, the Dean, Eric Milner-White, composed a further service - a Procession with Carols upon Advent Sunday. His desire for more imaginative forms of worship appears in the preface he wrote to that service: "In the old English liturgies, the Advent Offices made a preparation for the coming of our Lord to this earth far more vivid and eager than those of our present prayer book. So, an Advent carol service, if without precedent, is not without suitability, if it helps to express 'the desire of all nations and ages.'" The purpose of the service was not to celebrate Christmas, but to expect it.

Today's Service: Carols and music reprinted under OneLicense.net #A-800156 and under CCLI license #1132777.

Christian hymns preach Jesus Christ: crucified, risen and seated at God's right hand. The hymns in this service are from "Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal" ©2021 Northwestern Publishing House. Used with permission. Additional hymns: "Christian Worship Supplement" ©2008 Northwestern Publishing House. Used with permission.