Lovely, True, Good News

                                  Monday musical meditations on God's good news      An opening prayer:      O Jesus so sweet, O Jesus so mild!      For sinners you became a child.      You came from heaven to fulfill      Your Father’s just and holy will.      O Jesus so sweet, O Jesus so mild!      O Jesus so sweet, O Jesus so mild!      With God we now are reconciled.      You have for all the ransom paid,      Your Father’s righteous anger stayed.      O Jesus so sweet, O Jesus so mild!      O Jesus so sweet, O Jesus so mild!      Joy fills the world which sin defiled.      Whate’er we have belongs to you;      Oh, keep us faithful, strong, and true.      O Jesus ...

                                 Monday musical meditations on God's good news      An opening prayer:      From wilderness to Jordan came       The final prophet to proclaim      That judgment soon was to begin       To punish mankind for its sin.      Although of Abraham’s descent,       Since all have sinned all must repent      And, like the Gentiles, undergo       Baptizing, and their sorrow show.      But when Christ came, no judgment dire      Did he pronounce with venging fire;      Himself baptizing underwent,       The sinless One, subservient.      On him the Spirit as a dove       Descended, and the Father’s love      Voiced h...

                                 Monday musical meditations on God's good news      An opening prayer:      The only Son from heaven,      foretold by ancient seers,      by God the Father given,      in human form appears.      No sphere his light confining,      no star so brightly shining      as he, our Morning Star.     O  time of God appointed,      O bright and holy morn!      He comes, the King anointed,      the Christ, the virgin-born,      grim death to conquer for us,      to open heav'n before us      and bring us life again.     O  Lord, our hearts awaken      to know and love you more,      in faith to stand unshaken, ...