Adult Choir Cantata 2022

Annual Adult Choir Cantata and Christmas Prelude

Thank you, Henry, for that wonderful prelude. We appreciate that. I want to welcome you here tonight for our annual adult choir cantata. If you're visiting with us, we're really glad to have you here tonight.

We're going to begin by taking your hymnals there in front of your pew and turning to hymn number 218, O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. Do we need the lights on for this, Steve?

Let's stand.

Let's sing, O Come, O Come. Turn the lights on just for a few minutes.

218.

Prayer for the Message of Christmas and the Hope of Christ

Father, tonight we pray that the message of the Christmas.

Season would be made loud and clear, the message of a Savior born to a people who are lost in sin. And our only hope, Father, is in the work of Jesus Christ, his finished work on the cross. And we pray as we celebrate tonight the birth of our Savior, we would be reminded, Father, that he is our only hope in this world, in the world to come.

And we pray that message would be portrayed tonight, and hearts would be changed because of that. Again, we thank you and praise you for this time of year, for the joy it brings, and for the hope it gives.

In Jesus' name, amen.

You may be seated.

The Lord Jesus, the Incarnation, and the Ransom Price for Sin

The message tonight of the Lord Jesus and of why he came. We're thankful for that, and we're glad that we can sing of it. Now, we want to invite all of you to the back for some refreshments and cookies and coffee and all kinds of sugary stuff for the kids.

And so let's stand, and I'll pray. And you can start when you get back there, all right? So let's pray together. Our Father, we thank you that we can call you Father because your son, the second person of the Trinity, took on human nature in order that he might save us.

We're thankful that he revealed you to us, that he paid the ransom price for our sin, that he has promised to make all things new, and that someday, when he comes, his glory will wash the earth, and we will live in a new, renewed earth.

All of this because of what Jesus did on that day. And so, Father, we ask that you would help us to reflect on that. And Father, not to pass it over too quickly, but to give some thought to the fact that without the incarnation, we would be lost, and the world would continue in darkness.

Thank you for these who are here tonight. Thank you for the opportunity of ministering your word by music. In Jesus' name, amen. You're dismissed.