Posts with the tag “christmas”

Scripture: Isaiah 9:2-7Hymn: Messiah An oratorio is a large-scale musical composition, usually on a sacred theme, that often comes directly from a passage of Scripture. Today's Christmas hymn, Handel'...  Read More

Scripture: Isaiah 8:9-18Hymn: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is one of America's most well-renowned poets. A direct descendent of the Pilgrims who established the Plymou...  Read More

Scripture: John 8:12-18, 23-30Hymn: O Little Town of Bethlehem Many of the Christmas hymns we sing today were originally written to teach little children to understand and remember the significance of...  Read More

Scripture: Isaiah 7:10-16Hymn: He is Born the Divine Christ Child After sin entered the world, "and death through sin, and death spread to all men because all sinned" (Rom 5:12), God revealed even in ...  Read More

Scripture: Isaiah 2:1-5Hymn: In the Bleak Midwinter "In the Bleak Midwinter" is a much newer Christmas hymn by church standards. It was published just over 150 years ago, in January 1872, by Christina...  Read More

Scripture: Zechariah 2Hymn: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent" is another one of our most ancient Christmas hymns. Though most date the hymn to sometime in the 5th cen...  Read More

Scripture: Jeremiah 33:14-18Hymn: We Three Kings of Orient Are Written in 1857, "We Three Kings of Orient Are" became the first widely known Christmas hymn written in America. John Henry Hopkins was s...  Read More

Scripture: Romans 15:4-13Hymn: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" is certainly another Christmas favorite, and like so many of our hymns, it's been sung for centuries. It was original...  Read More

Scripture: Romans 13:11-14Hymn: Angels from the Realms of Glory Another one of today's most familiar Christmas hymns, "Angels from the Realms of Glory," was written by the Scottish poet James Montgome...  Read More

Scripture: Isaiah 60:19-22Hymn: Joy to the World Today's hymn was originally written by Isaac Watts in 1719, who wrote many more of our favorite hymns we still sing today, including, "Jesus Shall Reig...  Read More

Scripture: John 12:44-50Hymn: Nu komm, der Heiden Heiland (Savior of the Nations Come) It goes without saying that most of today's contemporary "pop" music lacks the substance and theological depth to...  Read More

Text: John 3:16-21Christmas Hymn: Divinum Mysterium (Of the Father's Love Begotten) Divinum Mysterium is another one of the church's most ancient Christmas hymns still sung today, and just as Veni Red...  Read More

Scripture: John 1:1-4Christmas Hymn: Veni, Redemptor Gentium (Come, Redeemer of the Nations!) One of our most ancient and beautiful Christmas hymns isn't very well known, but "Veni, Redemptor Gentium"...  Read More