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ADVENT CANDLE SONG TUNE: GOD REST YOU MERRY, GENTLEMEN 1. Your promises are coming true - our waiting hopes fulfilled. Your light has burst upon our world the new dawn that You willed. Your coming gives us HOPE to live and strength, with You, to build COME, JESUS, & BE WITH US NOW, BE WITH US NOW, COME, JESUS, & BE WITH US NOW! 2. Our lives are troubled while we wait - our failure leads to fear. Great God, we need Your healing PEACE, both now and ev'ry year. Come, live and die, that we may live because you're always near - COME, JESUS, & BE WITH US NOW 3. Failed people living far apart with selfishness undone, O heal us with your LOVE, we pray, with loving make us one; Your coming and Your sacrifice - in us new life begun COME, JESUS, & BE WITH US NOW 4. Yet some still carry sadness and pains left by their past. O'ertake us all with heav'nly JOY, come down to earth at last. With happiness bought by your tears, embrace us, hold us fast - COME, JESUS, & BE WITH US NOW 5. New HOPE, new PEACE, new LOVE are ours new JOY on Christmas Day! We celebrate Your Christmas gift Yourself; Truth, Life and Way. Reshape us as we worship you, Christ-child upon the hay COME, JESUS, & BE WITH US NOW, BE WITH US NOW, COME, JESUS, & BE WITH US NOW! Words by Rev. John Campbell, 26 Nov.1993 JOHN'S SONG TUNE: -JINGLE BELLS "Change your ways! Change your ways!" cried the prophet John, "God's own King is coming soon. so who's side are you on? .oh. "Change your ways! Change your ways!" cried the prophet John, "God's own King is coming soon. so who's side are you on? 1. Out in the wilderness, there lived a man named John; you really would have laughed to see what he had on. Coat of camel hair and leather belt had he; Crunchy locusts for his lunch and honey for his tea. "Change your ways!" 2. The crowds flocked out to hear, what this man had to say "God's King is coming soon, repent without delay! The hills will be brought down, the valleys will be raised, every crooked road made straight it's time to change your ways!" "Change your ways!" Words c. by Rectory Road United Reformed Church, London GOD STANDING OUR SIDE Matthew 3:11-17 - Jesus' Baptism Tune: How great Thou art 1. John challenged all to face their sin and failure, to own their faults; seek rescue in God's name but Jesus came, and chose to stand beside us: to be baptised, though free of taint or blame. Then God's delight burst through the heav'ns above, the Spirit's pow'r, poured out that hour; for Jesus showed the essence of God's love He lived and died - God by our side! 2. When we're alone, engulfed by countless troubles and all our hopes by fear and stress outweighed: still Jesus comes and quietly stands beside us to hear and help, tho' we're the ones who strayed. Then God's delight bursts through the heav'ns above, the Spirit's pow'r, pours out that hour; still Jesus shows the essence of God's love He lived and died - God by our side! 3. When time's complete, prevarication over, and all are judged before our Maker's throne, Christ will be there, our advocate beside us. claim for us life, by offering up his own then God's delight will burst the heav'ns above, the Spirit's pow'r, will fill that hour; for all will know the essence of God's love Christ lived and died - God by our side! John M Campbell, 12/1/97 Those who wait on the Lord TUNE: EAGLES' WINGS, Songs of God's People No. 106 1. Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength, They shall rise up on wings as eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint: Help us, Lord, help us, Lord, in your way! 2. Those who serve the suffering world shall renew their strength, 3. Those who live the risen life shall renew their strength, 4. Those who love the living Christ shall renew their strength, 5. Those who die on the march shall renew their strength, 6. Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength, THERE'S ALWAYS MORE BASED ON LUKE 18:1-14 TUNE: BLESSED ASSURANCE, Mission Praise 59 1. Follow that widow day after day like her keep faith whatever folk say - live through false judgements, pity and pain, till God makes justice flower again. We may have travelled far with our Lord, we may have mined the depths of God's Word still there is more that we need to see - truth that will challenge, truth that sets free.. 2. Even our efforts made at great cost could undermine us, leaving us lost; self satisfaction, sneering at 'them' brings God's reversal, loses the game. 3. Once we assume that we know it all we must take head or we're sure to fall - God offers insight we can't ignore. We need to listen - there's always more! John M. Campbell, 9 May 2004-05-09 |