Welcome St. Paul’s worship on December 28, 2025, The First Sunday of Christmas: Lessons and Carols

 

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God's blessings to you this day!

 

Credits:

 

Copyright © 2021 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #SAS016573.

 

New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

 

Permission to podcast/stream the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-715792.

 

Hymns:

 

“Once in Royal David’s City”, Public Domain

 

“O Little Town of Bethlehem”, Public Domain

 

‘ Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming”, Public Domain

“Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”, Public Domain

“Angels We Have Heard on High”, Public Domain

 

“O Christmas Tree”, Public Domain

 

“The First Noel”, Public Domain

 

“O Come, All Ye Faithful”, Public Domain

 

“Good Christian Friends, Rejoice”, Public Domain

 

Pre and Post Service Music for Livestream:

 

“If You But Trust in God to Guide You”, Preformed by: National Lutheran Choir. Text: Georg Neumark, tr. Composite, alt. Stanzas 1, 3, 4 from the New Century Hymnal, Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1995, 410. Word alterations Copyright © 1993 The Pilgrim Press. Permission granted for one-time use. Stanza 2 Copyright © Augsburg Fortress; Music: WER NUR DEN LIEBEN GOTT, Georg Neumark, arr. David Cherwien, Copyright © 2005 Birnamwood Publications, Inc. a division of MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc., Catalog MSM-60-9027.  Used by permission.

 

“Children of the Heavenly Father”, Preformed by: National Lutheran Choir. Text: Karolina V. Sandell-Berg, tr. Ernst W. Olson; Music: TRYGGARE KAN INGEN VARA, Swedish folk tune, arr. Paul J. Christiansen Copyright © 1969 (renewed 1997) Schmitt, Hall & McCreary. All rights Assigned to and Controlled by Alfred Publishing Inc. (00-SCHCH00912). Used by permission.