Christmas Eve, 2017
This Sunday at Park Church is Christmas Eve, and the fourth week of Your Kingdom Come: Gospel Promises from Isaiah, our series for Advent. Our service times will be slightly different this week for the holiday—10am, 5pm, and 6:30pm. Here’s how you can prepare for worship:
1. Read through our main text, Isaiah 9:1–7.
The wait has been long, we have walked in darkness and dwelt in a land of deep darkness, but no more. The “sunrise from on high” has visited us (Luke 1:78); we’ve seen a great light. Of the increase of that light and of the government of that light there shall be no end. It will be for peace, justice, and righteousness. A Son is given.
2. Read, pray and sing through the service:
First Advent Candle
Reading One: Isaiah 9:1–7
Second Advent Candle
O Come, O Come Emmanuel (John Neale, Henry Coffin, arr. Chichi Agorom, The Christian Year)
Joy To The World (Isaac Watts)
Reading Two: Luke 2:1–7
Third Advent Candle
Oh Come All Ye Faithful (C. Frederick Oakeley, John Francis Wade)
Reading Three: Luke 2:8–21
Fourth Advent Candle
Angels We Have Heard On High (James Chadwick)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Author Unknown)
HOMILY & COMMUNION
Christ Candle
O Holy Night (Placide Cappeau)
Congregational Candles Lit from Christ Candle
Silent Night (Joseph Mohr)