Table Grace for Christmas Dinner

Why not place a card at each seat for your family dinner tonight or tomorrow  to recite grace together? Print something like this:   Lord, Jesus, be our   Holy guest, our morning joy,   our evening rest. And with our daily   bread impart; Your love and peace to every heart. Amen. Lord, Jesus, [...]

Silent Night – Guitar and Cello

At our church we are having two children play Silent Night on their guitar and cello as pre-service music on Dec 18.  Both are first year beginning students.  I wrote a very simple arrangement for their use.   The guitar includes both tab and sheet music.  I am offering it for free to anyone interested.  You [...]

The Tug

Mary and Joseph felt a tug, And so they went with reverent fear. To the city of David For the Messiah’s birth was near. The lowly shepherds felt the tug, And their wonder just would not yield. For they saw a heavenly vision, Whilst abiding in the field. The wise men also felt a tug, [...]

Christmas Text – Responsive Reading

P:  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. C:  He was with God in the beginning. P:  Oh, come, let us adore Him, C: Christ the Lord! P:  Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. C:  In [...]

Christmas Prophecies

One of the many things that I love about Christmas worship is the OT prophecies and their NT fulfillments.  I’m told that there are about 300 such statements in scripture.  I don’t claim to know much more than a hand full of them but here’s a few of my favorites, collected into a responsive reading [...]

Silent Night

Intro to Silent Night     The following is read by the Pastor, as the guitarist softly fingerpicks “Silent Night” in the background.  After the history is told, the congregation joins in singing “Silent Night” to the accompaniment of the acoustic guitar.  It happened almost 200 years ago to this very night.  It was a [...]

Christmas Reading from Luke 2

A Dramatic Reading of Luke 2:1-20 Using 3 Voices for Dec 24 or 25   This famous Christmas Eve scripture passage comes to new life using a technique of multi-part readers phasing in and out with each other.  It is helpful to practice this technique together before presenting it in worship.   NIV Version: Reader [...]

What does the Lord’s Prayer and “Away in a Manger” have in common?

Try singing this to “Away in a Manger”.  We plan to use it this coming Sunday (12/14) but it would work well for a 12/24 or 12/25 service as well.   Our Father in heaven, all praise to your name! Your kingdom among us, your will done the same By mortals and angels. Come, Lord, [...]