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It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas

$6.25

OMM BK99-02

If your worshipping community struggles with celebrating the preparation season of Advent in the midst of the cultural flurry of Christmas throughout December, this is the resource for you!

Pastor Pam drew upon her congregational experience with the “worship wars” and here is her answer:

She has taken 25 familiar Christmas carol tunes and written brand-new Advent-themed lyrics to help the congregation prepare for the birth of Christ.

“For many years I have written new texts to old tunes. It is a fine art; Pam does it well. Her new words fit the meter and mood of the familiar tunes.

Pam chooses contemporary images and paints them on a background of Scripture. She blends colors of faith and grace with hope. Her words match the mood of the songs. She decorates Advent with the right colors to prepare the mind for Christmas.” –Dr. Herbert Brokering (from the Foreword)

This volume is fully indexed for the scripture readings according to the Common 3-year Lectionary. Buy one for your pastor, musician and worship committee!

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SKU: OMM BK99-02 Categories: Books, Poetry, Seasonal, Worship
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Why Write this Book? (from the Preface)

“We love Christmas with all its wonders:
the infant Christ-child born in the stable, Mary and Joseph,
the angels, the shepherds, the star in the heavens,
the incredible story freshly told each year.

We love Christmas with all its festivities:
the trees, lights, candles, delicious delicacies,
presents, pageants, programs,
family get-togethers, friends, and traditions.

We love Christmas…
but what our hearts truly year for is Advent:
the forgotten season, the four weeks before Christmas,
the pregnancy before the birth,
the anticipation before the reality.

What we really need is not another month of Christmas, but a true Advent season:

-a time to prepare for God’s greatest gift,
to ponder gifts and giving,
to consider the miracle of birth and of life itself,
to accept all that we have received as a gift.

-a time to wait, to treasure expectation,
to embrace the pregnancy of earthly life,
to touch a time that moves beyond each day or hour,
to practice patience.

-a time to turn from wrong habits and ideas,
from ourselves and our concerns
toward the holy face of God,
to re-orient our lives ,to be transformed and redirected,
to look outward and inward.

-a time to repent, to admit our failures and our brokenness,
to confess to those whom we’ve wounded,
to experience the liberation of our bondage to sin and death,
to invite healing and renewal.

-a time to hope for the healing of this fractured world,
for peace where there is war or violence,
for justice for those who have been beaten down,
for the triumph of good over evil.

-a time to imagine a new heave and a new earth,
to glimpse God’s holy vision,
to taste a morsel of God’s heavenly feat that awaits,
to dream of heavenly mansions.”

 

About the Author:

Pam González, poet and pastor, lives with her husband and two children in Northern Colorado. Her years of ministry, as well as life experiences, have let her see into the complexity of human relationships. Pam has also written a collection of poetry entitled, Climbing the Wreckage.

4 reviews for It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas

  1. [email protected] – February 22, 2015

    “Here is a great resource for a congregation’s Advent Hymnody! pamela J. González, using Advent lectionary texts as her inspiration, Christmas tunes are her structure, and her own gifts of words and faith has written hymns with clear Advent messages that are both theologically sound and structurally solid. Her poetry is simple and profound. Congregations and choirs will enjoy singing her Carols for the Advent Season.” –Dr. Frank L. Benz, Dean of the Luther Academy of the Rockies, Preofessor Emeritus, Wartburg Theological Seminary

  2. [email protected] – February 22, 2015

    “Here is a gentle sequence of songs and carols – new words, glad breathless lines, a bright expectant Advent joy. The rhythms of the poetry rejoice in the old familiar rhythms and melodic flights of the music. Sing the old carols new.” —Walter Wangerin, Jr. pastor, poet, author, faculty member of Valparaiso University, Lutheran Vespers speaker

  3. [email protected] – February 22, 2015

    “People love to sing Christmas carols. These songs allow them to sing the familiar tunes, while not rushing the season and still observing Advent. It’s a wonderful idea.” —Louis Williams, Executive Director of the Lutheran Deaconess Association, President of DIAKONIA of the Americas and the Caribbean

  4. [email protected] – February 22, 2015

    “The season of Advent is a treasure and one of my favorite times in our worship cycle. Pam González has given us a wonderful gift. These carols will increase our appreciation of the great blessings of Advent and take us deeper into the ancient gifts.” —-Bishop Allen Bjornberg, Rocky Mountain Synod (ELCA)

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