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Look at the Rose

31 Friday Dec 2010

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Christmas, Gospel, hymns, theology, worship

Isaiah 11:1 says, “A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.”  This German hymn, dating from 1560, was translated by Theodore Baker (vv1-2), Harriett Spaeth (vv3-4) and John Mattes (v5).  Taken from The Trinity Hymnal, Revised Edition, 1990.  Hymn #221.

Lo, how a rose e’er blooming
From the tender stem hath sprung
Of Jesse’s lineage coming
As men of old have sung
It came, a floweret bright
Amid the cold of winter
When half-spent was the night.

Isaiah ’twas foretold it,
The rose I have in mind
With Mary we behold it
The virgin mother kind
To show God’s love aright
She bore to men a Savior
When half-spent was the night.

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Are you SAD?

31 Friday Dec 2010

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Christmas, depression, experience, health

Check out Puritan Reformer’s video on seasonal depression and some easy ways you can avoid its effects.  As someone who wrestles with seasonal depression a bit, I think his advice sounds like it will help…for example, eating fewer carbs.  As I was telling a friend of mine tonight, not only do the carbs influence my mood, but they’ve caused me to put on weight which makes me more depressed because in my family when people start, they don’t usually stop.

HT: Tim Challies

Break Forth!

30 Thursday Dec 2010

Posted by David L. Gill in Theology

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Christmas, hymns, repentance, theology, worship

“O God, You make this most holy night to shine with the brightness of the true Light.  Grant that as we have known the mysteries of that Light on earth we may also come to the fullness of His joys in heaven; through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy  Spirit, one God, now and forever” (Collect for Christmas Midnight, from The Lutheran Service Book).

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Prophets Foretold Him

29 Wednesday Dec 2010

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Christmas, hymns, music, worship

Of the Father’s Love Begotten.  by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (348-413), translated by J. M. Neale and H. W. Baker.  From Cantus Christi, pg. 246.

Of the Father’s love begotten
Ere the worlds began to be
He is Alpha and Omega
He the Source, the Ending He
Of the things that are, that have been
And that future years shall see
Evermore and evermore!

At His Word the worlds were framed
He commanded; it was done
Heaven and earth and depths of ocean
In their three-fold order, one
All that grows beneath the shining
Of the moon and burning sun
Evermore and evermore!

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Silence!

28 Tuesday Dec 2010

Posted by David L. Gill in Theology

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Christmas, confession, Gospel, hymns, music, prayer, theology, worship

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence. from the Liturgy of St. James, trans. by Gerard Moultrie, 1864.  As published in Cantus Christi 2004 revised edition, pg. 241.  (For those keeping track, this particular hymnal was produced by Douglas Wilson’s church.)

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All Praise to Thee, Eternal God!

27 Monday Dec 2010

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Christmas, Gospel, hymns, Martin Luther, music, Scripture, theology, worship

A hymn by Martin Luther.  From The Lutheran Hymnal of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America, Concordia Publishing, St. Louis, MO: 1941. #80.

All praise to Thee eternal God
Who, clothed in garb of flesh and blood
Dost take a manger for Thy throne
While worlds on worlds are Thine alone

Once did the skies before Thee bow
A virgin’s arms contain Thee now
While angels, who in Thee rejoice
Now listen for Thine infant voice

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A Great And Mighty Wonder

26 Sunday Dec 2010

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Christmas, Gospel, hymns, worship

From the Greek of Anatolius, Patriarch of Constantinople and a member of the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon, A. D. 451.  Translated by Dr. J. Mason Neale, 1862.

A great and mighty wonder
The festal makes secure
The Virgin bears the Infant
With virgin-honor pure.

The Word is made incarnate
And yet remains on high
And cherubim sing anthems
To shepherds from the sky.

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Hark, How the Heavens Ring!

25 Saturday Dec 2010

Posted by David L. Gill in Theology

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Charles Wesley, Christmas, Gospel, hymns, music

A hymn I’ve selected for the first day of Christmas.

“Hark, How All The Welkin Rings!” is a hymn by Charles Wesley, first published in his Hymns and Sacred Poems in 1739.  It has passed into modern usage as “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.”  While I understand and to varying degrees support the modernization and editing of this hymn that has gone on, I think it’s good to examine the original.  There are some notable changes, so read carefully.

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Snow Is Falling

24 Friday Dec 2010

Posted by David L. Gill in Personal

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Christmas, insecurity, loneliness, relationships

I’m a bit of a grinch when it comes to Christmas.  The big holiday in my family has always been Thanksgiving.  We go and visit extended family, see people we don’t really know that well and eat until we almost go into a coma.  It’s everything anyone could want, from pies to turkey to arguments over breakfast.

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