Lovely, True, Good News

                             Monday musical meditations on God's good news      An opening prayer:      The advent of our King      Our prayers must now employ,       And we must hymns of welcome sing       In strains of holy joy.      The everlasting Son      Incarnate deigns to be;     H imself a servant’s form puts on      To set His servants free.      O Zion’s Daughter, rise      To meet your lowly King,      Nor let your faithless heart despise      The peace He comes to bring.        As Judge, on clouds of light,      He soon will come again      And His true members all unite      With Him in heaven to reign.      Before t...

                             Monday musical meditations on God's good news         An opening prayer:     All hail the power of Jesus’ Name! Let angels prostrate fall;     Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown him Lord of all.     Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown him Lord of all.      Ye seed of Israel’s chosen race, ye ransomed from the fall,      Hail Him Who saves you by his grace, and crown him Lord of all.      Hail Him Who saves you by his grace, and crown him Lord of all.      Hail Him, ye heirs of David’s line, Whom David Lord did call,      The God incarnate, Man divine, and crown him Lord of all,      The God incarnate, Man divine, and crown him Lord of all.      Sinners, whose love can ne’er forget the wormwood and t...

                             Monday musical meditations on God's good news An opening prayer:      For all the saints, who from their labors rest,      All who their faith before the world confessed,      Your name, O Jesus, be forever blessed.      Alleluia, Alleluia!      You were their Rock, their Fortress and their Might;      You, Lord, their Captain in the well fought fight;      You, in the darkness drear, their one true Light.      Alleluia, Alleluia!      O blest communion, fellowship divine!      We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;      Yet all are one within your grand design.      Alleluia, Alleluia!      O may your soldiers, faithful, true and bold,      Fight as the saints who nobly fough...

                            Monday musical meditations on God's good news An opening prayer:      See, the book, exactly worded,      Wherein all has been recorded —      Thus shall judgment be awarded.      What shall I in awe be pleading,      Who for me be interceding      When your mercy I am needing?      King of majesty tremendous,      Who does free salvation send us,      Fount of pity, then befriend us.      Think, good Jesus -- my salvation      Caused your wondrous incarnation,      Made you suffer my damnation! Amen. Luke 19:11 –27 While they were listening to this, Jesus went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once.   12  He sai...