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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 | November 13, 2023

3 Christmas Songs / 3 Cantos de Navidad

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

Musical Composition | Video | December 07, 2020

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 | November 13, 2019

W. David O. Taylor on Scholars and Songwriters

Scholars and songwriters don’t normally talk together. But wonderful music for Christian worship can result when they share insights.

Conversation | March 01, 2019

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 | November 20, 2018

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 | November 15, 2018

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 | December 06, 2017

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 | December 01, 2017

Sun of Righteousness

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

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 | December 02, 2016

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 | November 23, 2015

Celebrating Christmas in Pakistan

The month of December brings joyful tidings across the world as more than two billion people anticipate celebrating the birth of Christ on December 25 although the Orthodox churches celebrate 12 days later.

Article | December 10, 2014

A Pentecostal Christmas

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

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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | October 11, 2014

Christus Paradox

This service of Lessons and Carols from 2008 is an extended meditation on the incomprehensible incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Worship Service | October 10, 2014

Born to Die, Born to Rise

This service of Lessons and Carols from 2007 celebrates Christmas by proclaiming the Easter Gospel: "Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again!"

Worship Service | October 09, 2014