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Advent and Christmas Resource Guide

This is a guide to Advent and Christmas worship planning resources from our website and our ministry partners' websites.

Resource Guide Resource Guide | November 13, 2023

Carlos Colón

3 Songs for Advent / 3 Cantos para Adviento

Carlos Colón demonstrates and talks about three songs for Advent, as part of the series "Songs from the hymnal / Cantos del himnario Santo, Santo, Santo / Holy, Holy, Holy.'"

Musical Composition Musical Composition | Video Video | November 02, 2020

Chan Gyu Jang

Palm Sunday: Another Advent

Noticing and celebrating Palm Sunday’s allusions to Advent can enrich your congregation’s understanding of Holy Week and how Palm Sunday reflects both Christ’s humble first coming and his glorious return.

Article Article | April 01, 2020

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Christus Paradox 2019

A service of lessons and carols that invites people to approach Advent and Christmas with songs that sing about both forgiveness and justice, healing and correction, personal serenity and cultural reconciliation, human flourishing and the flourishing of all creation.

Worship Service Worship Service | November 13, 2019

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Reconciling All Things 2018

A service of lessons and carols that invites people to approach Advent and Christmas with songs that sing about both forgiveness and justice, healing and correction, personal serenity and cultural reconciliation, human flourishing and the flourishing of all creation.

Worship Service Worship Service | November 20, 2018

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Four Types of Advent and Christmas Eve Services: Which Have You Tried?

Experimenting with a different Advent or Christmas Eve worship format may help worshipers connect with the joy and wonder of Christ’s birth. Blue Christmas, Christmas pageants, Las Posadas, or lessons and carols make room for emotions, movement, culture, and people’s gifts.

Feature Story Feature Story | November 15, 2018

Northwestern College Scripture Arts Team

The Coming of Esau: An Advent Story

Join with Jeff Barker and Northwester College Scripture Arts Team in this worship service based on the entire dramatic, biblical story story of Esau and his younger brother, Jacob.

Video Video | April 27, 2018

Greg Scheer

Renewed: Mary’s Song (Our King of Peace)

Wendell Kimbrough’s setting of Mary’s Song captures the wonder, fear, and obedience of Mary’s response to Gabriel’s message. The song is a perfect fit for Advent, Christmas, and Lessons and Carols services.

Video Video | December 06, 2017

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Born to Die, Born to Rise 2017

This service of Lessons and Carols from 2017 celebrates Christmas by proclaiming the Easter Gospel: "Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again!"

Worship Service Worship Service | December 01, 2017

Greg Scheer

Renewed: Ready My Heart

What if we thought about Christ’s birth as an ongoing reality, rather than a one-time event? That’s just what Lois Shuford’s haunting Advent song “Ready My Heart” does: it helps us prepare our hearts for Christ to dwell in us every day.

Video Video | November 27, 2017

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Branch, Stump of Jesse

A visual symbol that can be placed on the cover of service bulletins, within the written liturgy, or on a large screen display.

Image | March 23, 2017

Victoria Emily Jones

Victoria Emily Jones on Gazing as a Spiritual Practice

Though she is passionate about Christian art, especially visual art, Victoria Emily Jones knows that congregations are full of “non-art” people. Her blog aims to help people of faith interpret, enjoy and use art in worship and private devotions.

Conversation Conversation | December 14, 2016

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Angels, from the Realms of Glory

The service of Lessons and Carols from 2016 highlights the importance of angels in the drama of the Christmas gospel, startling us to focus our awareness on how the angels enlarge our perception of the beauty and glory of the triune God through their nearness and through their mysterious, wonder-filled transcendence.

Worship Service Worship Service | December 02, 2016

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Maranatha! Come Lord Jesus: Advent Longing for Jesus' Second Coming

This service of Lessons and Carols from 2015 eagerly anticipates Christ's second coming with Christ-centered hope.

Worship Service Worship Service | November 23, 2015

A Pentecostal Christmas

This service of Lessons and Carols from 2014 highlights the presence of the Holy Spirit in the Christmas narrative.

Worship Service Worship Service | December 02, 2014

Isaiah's Vision of a Peaceable Kingdom

This service of Lessons and Carols from 2013 journeys through the book of Isaiah sequentially, with readings and music drawn from ten different chapters.

Worship Service Worship Service | October 14, 2014

Jesus, a Light for the Nations

This service of Lessons and Carols from 2012 witnesses to a great outburst of Advent and Christmas music from around the world.

Worship Service Worship Service | October 13, 2014

Evangelists and Canticles

This service of Lessons and Carols from 2011 invites you to hear the Scripture passages from four evangelists, surrounded by four canticles.

Worship Service Worship Service | October 12, 2014

Magnify the Lord

This service of Lessons and Carols from 2010 invites you to join with Mary in singing her song of praise to the Mighty One, and in working in fear and trembling for the full coming of the kingdom of Christ, even as we patiently await his return.

Worship Service Worship Service | October 12, 2014

Peace Surpassing Understanding

This service of Lessons and Carols from 2009, through the movement of scripture and prayer, melodies and rhythms, images and metaphors, may God's Spirit open our hearts to the breadth and power of the peace that surpasses understanding.

Worship Service Worship Service | October 11, 2014