Luke 2:15-18 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has… Read more »
O Come, All Ye Faithful
Posts Categorized: FUPC
He Shall Feed His Flock
He shall tend his flock like a shepherd. Isaiah 40:11 This beautiful song from Handel’s Messiah is familiar to us as an image of Jesus as a shepherd, feeding his… Read more »
Hope
Isaiah 40:9-11 Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good tidings; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good tidings, lift it up,… Read more »
Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
Matthew 2:9 “After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over… Read more »
Huron Carol
“Jesus, your king, is born! Jesus is born! In excess gloria!” Luke 2:1-20 Jean de Brébeuf, a French Jesuit missionary, went to Canada in 1625 to minister to the Huron… Read more »
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Micah 5:2 But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over… Read more »
Comfort, Comfort, O My People
Isaiah 40:1-2 The moment most people remember from the ending of A Christmas Carol is Scrooge throwing open his bedroom window and calling jubilantly to a street urchin, learning that… Read more »
In the Bleak Midwinter
Psalm 147:16–17 “He gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes. He casts forth His ice like morsels; who can stand before His cold?” When winter settles deep… Read more »
Song of Mary
Luke 1:46–55 (NRSV) And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior for he has looked with favor on the lowly state of… Read more »
Gabriel’s Message
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. This lovely… Read more »