Christmas Day Song Festival

Christmas Day Song Festival

WELCOME TO WORSHIP 
In the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ, we welcome you to St. Paul’s. We especially welcome our guests who have joined us today. We pray that your soul will be strengthened by the good news of God’s forgiveness through Jesus. 

PRAYER IN PREPARATION FOR TODAY’S WORSHIP 
God in heaven, the day is here. Today we praise you for the day the Word became flesh. We thank you for prophesying his identity, his work, the uniqueness of his birth, and even the town where it all would be fulfilled. We especially thank you for fulfilling it all that Jesus could be our Savior. Bless us as we let our voices ring out in praise to you for sending the exact Savior we needed—both God and man. We ask this in the One who is both the Son of God and son of Mary. Amen. 

A SERVICE OF WORD AND SONG 
The service for today is a special service that guides us in our worship of Christ as the One who fulfilled God’s promises of a Savior born for the world. 

CHOIR A Sequence of Christmas Carols 
OPENING HYMN Of the Father’s Love Begotten | 35 
INVOCATION 
DIALOGUE OF PRAISE 
PRAYER OF THE DAY 
THE SAVIOR’S DIVINE CHARACTERISTICS 
PROPHECY Isaiah 9:2,6,7 | Isaiah 11:1,2 
FULFILLMENT John 1:1,14 
CHOIR On This Holy Night 
THE SAVIOR BORN OF A VIRGIN 

PROPHECY Isaiah 7:14 
FULFILLMENT Matthew 1:18-23 | Luke 1:30-35 
HYMN What Child Is This? | 67 
THE SAVIOR BORN IN BETHLEHEM 
PROPHECY Micah 5:2 
FULFILLMENT Luke 2:1-14 
CHOIR Born in Bethlehem 
APOSTLES’ CREED 
OFFERING 
HYMN Away in a Manger | 68  
PRAYER OF THE CHURCH 
LORD’S PRAYER 
HYMN Hark! The Herald Angels Sing | 61 
PRAYER 
BLESSING CLOSING HYMN Joy to the World | 62