Here is a great old hymn with new music for today.
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Christ Is Mine Forevermore
Here is a great new hymn. For chords and lyrics, visit their site here.
Book Collection
What will you read in 2017? Here is a collection of favorite books from some other bloggers to give you some ideas.
My Top Books of 2016 – Tim Challies
10 Favorite Reads of 2016 – Trevin Wax
My Top 10 Books of 2016 – Jared Wilson
Top Ten Books of 2016 – Kevin DeYoung
2016 TGC Book Awards – Collin Hansen & Ivan Mesa (TGC)
50 Books J.I. Packer Thinks You Should Read – Matt Tully (Crossway)
Christmas Collection
Here is another collection of good Christmas posts:
The Irrepressible Christ of Christmas – Sam Storms
Why I Changed My Mind on Nativity Scenes – Alistair Begg (TGC)
Christmas Songs Are Freedom Songs – Stephen Miller (TGC)
10 Things You Should Know about the Incarnation – Stephen Wellum (Crossway)
10 Things You Should Know about Christmas – Andreas J. Köstenberger (Crossway)
The Fullness of God Dwelled in a Womb – Jared Wilson (FTC)
Hope you have a wonder-filled Christmas celebrating the birth of Jesus!
Forgotten Verses
Here are the forgotten verses of one more Christmas carol:
O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free
Thine own from Satan’s tyranny;
From depths of hell Thy people save,
And give them victory over the grave.
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, Thou Key of David, come,
And open wide our heavenly home;
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, O come, great Lord of might,
Who to Thy tribes on Sinai’s height
In ancient times once gave the law
In cloud and majesty and awe.
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, Thou Root of Jesse’s tree,
An ensign of Thy people be;
Before Thee rulers silent fall;
All peoples on Thy mercy call.
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
“O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”
Author Unknown
Written around the 12th Century
As found in the Cyber Hymnal
Forgotten Verses
Here are some forgotten verses from another Christmas carol:
Still through the cloven skies they come
With peaceful wings unfurled,
And still their heavenly music floats
O’er all the weary world;
Above its sad and lowly plains,
They bend on hovering wing,
And ever over its Babel sounds
The blessèd angels sing.
Yet with the woes of sin and strife
The world has suffered long;
Beneath the angel strain have rolled
Two thousand years of wrong;
And man, at war with man, hears not
The love-song which they bring;
O hush the noise, ye men of strife
And hear the angels sing.
“It Came Upon The Midnight Clear”
Edmund H. Sears
Written in 1849
As found in the Cyber Hymnal
Christmas Collection
Here are some good posts for Christmas:
Jesus Isn’t Threatened by Your Christmas Gifts – Tim Challies
10 Ways to Be a Christian this Christmas – Kevin DeYoung
How to Show Your Kids Grace This Christmas – Jessica Thompson (Crossway)
3 Ways to Become a Christmas-Loving Pastor – Ronnie Martin (TGC)
Forgotten Verses
Here are some more more forgotten verses from another familiar Christmas carol:
True God of true God, Light from Light Eternal,
Lo, He shuns not the Virgin’s womb;
Son of the Father, begotten, not created;
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.
See how the shepherds, summoned to His cradle,
Leaving their flocks, draw nigh to gaze;
We too will thither bend our joyful footsteps;
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.
Lo! star led chieftains, Magi, Christ adoring,
Offer Him incense, gold, and myrrh;
We to the Christ Child bring our hearts’ oblations.
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.
Child, for us sinners poor and in the manger,
We would embrace Thee, with love and awe;
Who would not love Thee, loving us so dearly?
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.
“O Come All Ye Faithful”
John F. Wade
Written around 1743
As found in the Cyber Hymnal
Forgotten Verses
Yesterday I started a week-long feature sharing forgotten verses from some of our favorite Christmas carols. Here is the second installment:
Come, Desire of nations, come,
Fix in us Thy humble home;
Rise, the woman’s conqu’ring Seed,
Bruise in us the serpent’s head.
Now display Thy saving power,
Ruined nature now restore;
Now in mystic union join
Thine to ours, and ours to Thine.
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King!”
Adam’s likeness, Lord, efface,
Stamp Thine image in its place:
Second Adam from above,
Reinstate us in Thy love.
Let us Thee, though lost, regain,
Thee, the Life, the inner man:
O, to all Thyself impart,
Formed in each believing heart.
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King!”
“Hark the Herald Angels Sing”
Charles Wesley
Written in 1739
As found in the Cyber Hymnal
Forgotten Verses
Every year we sing numerous Christmas carols from our hymnal at church. But often our hymnal only has a few select verses included. So this week I want to feature some forgotten verses from some of our favorite Christmas carols. Here is the first:
Sinners, wrung with true repentance,
Doomed for guilt to endless pains,
Justice now revokes the sentence,
Mercy calls you; break your chains.
Come and worship, come and worship,
Worship Christ, the newborn king.
Though an Infant now we view Him,
He shall fill His Father’s throne,
Gather all the nations to Him;
Every knee shall then bow down:
Come and worship, come and worship,
Worship Christ, the newborn king.
All creation, join in praising
God, the Father, Spirit, Son,
Evermore your voices raising
To th’eternal Three in One.
Come and worship, come and worship,
Worship Christ, the newborn king.
“Angels From the Realms of Glory”
James Montgomery
Written 1816-1825
As found in the Cyber Hymnal
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