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O Little Town of Bethlehem
Author: Phillips Brooks Meter: 8.6.8.6.7.6.8.6 Appears in 844 hymnals Topics: Christ Birth and Infancy; Christ Presence; Christ Saviour; God Grace; Jesus Christ His Birth Lyrics: 1 O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie;
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by.
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.
2 For Christ is born of Mary;
And gathered all above,
While mortals sleep, the angels keep
Their watch of wondering love.
O morning stars, together
Proclaim the holy birth;
And praises sing to God the King,
And peace to men on earth.
3 How silently, how silently
The wondrous gift is given!
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings of His heaven.
No ear may hear His coming,
But in this world of sin,
Where meek souls will receive Him, still
The dear Christ enters in.
4 O holy Child of Bethlehem,
Descend to us, we pray;
Cast out our sin, and enter in,
Be born in us today.
We hear the Christmas angels
The great glad tidings tell;
O come to us, abide with us,
Our Lord Emmanuel.
Amen. Scripture: Micah 5:2 Used With Tune: ST. LOUIS
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Just a Closer Walk With Thee
Author: Anonymous Meter: Irregular Appears in 113 hymnals Topics: Fellowship with God; Jesus Christ Guide; liturgical Confession Songs First Line: I am weak but Thou art strong Lyrics: 1 I am weak but Thou art strong;
Jesus, keep me from all wrong;
I'll be satisfied as long
As I walk, let me walk close to Thee.
Refrain:
Just a closer walk with Thee,
Grant it, Jesus, is my plea,
Daily walking close to Thee,
Let it be, dear Lord, let it be.
2 Thro' this world of toil and snares,
If I falter, Lord, who cares?
Who with me my burden shares?
None but Thee, dear Lord, none but Thee. [Refrain]
3 When my feeble life is o'er,
Time for me will be no more;
Guide me gently, safely o'er
To Thy kingdom shore, to Thy shore. [Refrain]
Baptist Hymnal, 1991
Just a Closer Walk With Thee
Lead, Kindly Light
Author: J. H. Newman Appears in 1,225 hymnals Topics: Deliverance; Familiar Hymns; God; Guidance; Jesus Christ; Light; Security First Line: Lead, kindly light, amid th'encircling gloom Used With Tune: [Lead, kindly light, amid th'encircling gloom]
Lead, Kindly Light
ITALIAN HYMN
Meter: 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 1,306 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Felice de Giardini; Charles H. Webb Topics: God Beyond All Name and Form Praise to God; Descants; God; God: Majesty; God: Power; God: Reign; God: Trinity; Jesus Christ: Presence; Praise; Service Music: Doxologies; Holy Spirit Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 53121 71123 45432 Used With Text: Come, Thou Almighty King
ITALIAN HYMN
O STORE GUD
Meter: 11.10.11.10 with refrain Appears in 170 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Stuart K. Hine Topics: God Beyond All Name and Form Praise to God; Creation; God; God: Creator; God: Majesty; Jesus Christ: Savior; Nature; Praise Tune Sources: based on a Swedish folk melody Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 55535 55664 66665 Used With Text: How Great Thou Art
O STORE GUD
AZMON
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 965 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Carl Gotthelf Gläser; Lowell Mason Topics: God Beyond All Name and Form Praise to God; God; God: Glory; Jesus Christ: Name; Music and Singing; Praise; Proclamation Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 51122 32123 34325 Used With Text: O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing
AZMON
God Has Spoken by His Prophets
Author: George W. Briggs Hymnal: The Worshiping Church #311 (1990) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Topics: Jesus Christ God Incarnate; Descants; Holy Spirit Illuminator; Jesus Christ God Incarnate; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Jesus Christ Light; Proclamation; Holy Scriptures; Trinity Lyrics: 1 God hath spoken by the prophets,
spoken the unchanging Word,
each from age to age proclaiming
God the one, the righteous Lord.
In the world's despair and turmoil
one firm anchor holds us fast:
God is king, his throne eternal,
God the first, and God the last.
2 God hath spoken by Christ Jesus,
Christ, the everlasting Son,
brightness of the Father's glory,
with the Father ever one;
spoken by the Word incarnate,
God of God, ere time was born;
Light of Light, to earth descending,
Christ, as God in human form.
3 God is speaking by his Spirit,
speaking to our hearts again;
in the agelong Word expounding
God's own message, now as then.
Through the rise and fall of nations
one sure faith yet standing fast:
God abides, his Word unchanging,
God the first, and God the last. Scripture: Psalm 119:89 Languages: English Tune Title: ODE TO JOY
God Has Spoken by His Prophets
Psalm 72
Hymnal: Voices United #790 (1996) Topics: Biblical Characters David; Christian Year Epiphany; Covenant; God Sovereignty; Jesus Christ Adoration and Praise; Jesus Christ Kingship, Conqueror; Jesus Christ Lord of Life; Jesus Christ Love of; Jesus Christ name; Jesus Christ Reign; Jesus Christ Second Coming; Jesus Christ Son of God/Man (David); Jesus Christ Youth; Justice; Kingdom of God; Oppression; Prayer; Prisoner(s); Processionals (Opening of Worship); Salvation; Second Coming; Time; Vision/Dream; Water First Line: Hail to God's own anointed, who rules in equity Scripture: Psalm 72 Tune Title: [Hail to God's own anointed]
Psalm 72
Of the Father's Love Begotten
Author: John Mason Neale; Aurelius Clemens Prudentius Hymnal: Voices United #61 (1996) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.7.7 Topics: The Christian Year Christmas; Adoration and Praise; Angels; Christian Year Advent; Christian Year Christmas; Creation; God Creator; Jesus Christ Adoration and Praise; Jesus Christ Birth and Infancy; Jesus Christ Divinity; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Jesus Christ Lord of Life; Jesus Christ name; Jesus Christ Second Coming; Music and Singing; Mystery; Praise; Prophets; Redemption; Second Coming; Service Music Doxologies; Testimony; Trinity; Word of God; Worship; Advent 4 Year A; Christmas Eve Year A; Christmas Day 1 Year A; Christmas Day 2 Year A; Christmas 2 Year A; Epiphany Last/Transfig. Year A; Proper 13 Year A; Reign of Christ Year A; Advent 2 Year B; Advent 4 Year B; Christmas Day 2 Year B; Christmas Day 2 Year B; Christmas 2 Year B; All Saints Year B; Reign of Christ Year B; Advent 3 Year C; Christmas Day 2 Year C; Baptism of Jesus Year C; Easter 4 Year C; Proper 28 Year C; Reign of Christ Year C; Reign of Christ Year C Lyrics: 1 Of the Father's love begotten,
ere the worlds began to be,
Christ is Alpha and Omega,
Christ the source, the ending he,
of the things that are and have been,
and that future years shall see,
evermore and evermore.
2 At his word the worlds were framed.
He commanded, it was done:
heaven and earth and depths of ocean
in their threefold order one;
all that grows beneath the shining
of the moon and burning sun,
evermore and evermore.
3 O that birth for ever blessèd!
When the Virgin, full of grace,
by the Holy Ghost conceiving,
bare the Saviour of our race,
and the babe, the world's redeemer,
first revealed his sacred face,
evermore and evermore.
4 This is he whom seers in old time
chanted of with one accord,
whom the voices of the prophets
promised in their faithful word;
now he shines, the long-expected;
let creation praise its Lord,
evermore and evermore.
5 O ye heights of heaven, adore him;
angel hosts, his praises sing;
powers, dominions, bow before him,
and extol our God and King;
let no tongue on earth be silent,
every voice in concert ring,
evermore and evermore.
6 Christ, to thee with God most blessèd,
and, O Holy Ghost, to thee,
hymn and chant and high thanksgiving,
and unwearied praises be,
honour, glory, and dominion
and eternal victory,
evermore and evermore. Languages: English Tune Title: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM
Of the Father's Love Begotten
Felice Giardini
1716 - 1796 Person Name: Felice de Giardini Topics: God Beyond All Name and Form Praise to God; Descants; God; God: Majesty; God: Power; God: Reign; God: Trinity; Jesus Christ: Presence; Praise; Service Music: Doxologies; Holy Spirit Composer of "ITALIAN HYMN" in Chalice Hymnal Felice Giardini, born in Italy. When young, he studied singing, harpsichord, and violin. He became a composer and violin virtuoso. By age 12 he was playing in theatre orchestras. His most instructive lesson: While playing a solo passage during an opera, he decided to show off his skills by improvising several bravura variations that the composer, Jommelli, had not written . Although the audience applauded loudly, Jomelli, who happened to be there, went up and slapped Giardini in the face. He learned a lesson from that. He toured Europe as a violinist, considered one of the greatest musical artists of his time. He served as orchestra leader and director of the Italian Opera in London, giving concerts. He tried to run a theatre in Naples, but encountered adversity. He went to Russia, but had little fortune there, where he died.
John Perry
Felice Giardini
Melody Green
b. 1946 Person Name: Melody Green, b. 1946 Topics: Acción de Gracias; Thanksgiving; Jesucristo Amigo; Jesus Christ Friend; Jesucristo Cordero de Dios; Jesus Christ Lamb of God; Jesucristo Mesías; Jesus Christ Messiah; Jesucristo Redentor; Jesus Christ Redeemer Author of "There Is a Redeemer (Hay un Redentor)" in Santo, Santo, Santo Born: August 25, 1946, Hollywood, California.
Melody Green is probably most loved for the songs she’s written. “There Is A Redeemer” is found in church hymn books around the world, and reports of it being sung in villages in Africa and Asia are plentiful. She has also composed many other standards including, "Make My Life A Prayer To You," “You Are The One,” Rushing Wind,” and "The Lord Is My Shepherd."
Looking back, although Melody was born in Hollywood, she came into this world quietly and without fanfare. She grew up in Venice in a funky little apartment facing an alley, called Speedway. With no safe place to play, and the beach just a few hundred feet away, the sand became her only playground. As a young girl who always watched the shifting tides, the star patterns, and the sunsets, Melody realized there must be a Creator for such perpetual beauty, universal order and symmetry to exist.
Her father was a WWII Navy Seals Veteran, a hunter and fisherman, and a factory worker by trade. Her mom worked at a CPA firm, and was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family, the child of Russian refugees. Melody’s grandfather was a Rabbi, her grandmother, the child of a Grand Rabbi. Escaping Czarist persecution, her grandparents bundled up their five children and took a train to the shipyard in Odessa.
Melody says, “It’s a miracle I’m even alive! My family barely escaped death in Odessa, then on the train ride to the port they were ducking bullets shot at them through the windows. My precious grandparents put the kids on the floor and laid on top of them, covered with pillows for protection. They made it to the port and actually escaped on the every last ship that would allow fleeing refugees on board! My mom was their sixth child, but the very first child to be born in America.”
Today Melody says, "My family history has played a large part in shaping my heart to absolutely disdain all types of persecution, prejudice, and injustice. Some things are just wrong. My spirit told me this long before I even met the Lord.”
After college, Melody designed clothing in the famed Garment District of Los Angeles. Later she took a job at a Production Company. It was there that she met Keith Green, an aspiring musician who was on a very similar spiritual journey. Within a year they were married and continued their spiritual search together. Now Melody designed and made unique clothing for herself and Keith for his nightclub gigs in Hollywood and his record label auditions.
In 1975 they were invited to a small bible study in upscale Bel Air and their lives were forever changed. Melody finally found the truth she’d been looking for, but in an unexpected package. However, both Melody and Keith understood that in Jesus they had found their one and only true Messiah.
Calling herself a Jewish Christian, Melody decided to just do what the bible said. So she and Keith opened the doors of their small home and took in kids with drug problems and surprise pregnancies, usually leading them to the Lord. They also had Pot Luck dinners and bible studies for their whole neighborhood... going door to door to invite people. Before long more space was needed, so they bought or rented a total of six more homes, built triple high bunks, ate donated mystery food (cans without labels) and just kept on growing.
In 1979, feeling a need to leave "the city'" because of the rehab work they were doing, they moved their flourishing ministry to a 120-acre ranch in East Texas. Melody still traveled on Keith's concert tours where she ran the soundboard, sold albums, and as always, she and Keith wrote music wherever they could. Back at the ranch she oversaw the “women’s ministries,” wrote hundreds of counseling letters, and took care of her young and growing family.
By 1982 the ministry had a worldwide impact, with nearly 100 people on staff. Melody was busy editing The Last Days Magazine, as well as writing many of its articles. Keith’s music was at the top of the charts and new facilities were built and more were in the planning stages.
Then one day in July a tragic accident changed Melody’s life forever.
Keith and two of their young children, with some visiting friends, went for a short ride in a small plane. It was the LDM weekly fast day, and the ministry pilot had just returned. Keith met the pilot on the runway and everyone jumped into the plane. But the plane did not get the needed lift, and just 20 seconds later it crashed in a neighboring field and burst into flames. There were no survivors.
When Keith died he was just 28 years old. Melody's first born, Josiah, was almost four and Bethany was two years old. At the time, Melody was at home with their one year old daughter Rebekah Joy and six weeks pregnant with their fourth child. Melody says, “The rug was yanked out from under my whole world that day.
Without the Lord and the support of my friends and the LDM community I never would have made it.” But she did make it, pressing in to lead LDM through the crisis, while caring for her surviving daughter.
In the fall of 1982 Melody traveled across America with the Keith Green Memorial Concert, reaching over 300,000 people face to face. Since the mission field was the last burden she and Keith shared, she was the one left to carry that challenge. Loren Cunningham, the founder of Youth With A Mission said, "This was the largest missions challenge in history that I know of."
In March of 1983 Melody took some time off to give birth to her new daughter, Rachel Hope. Now Melody was a single mom with two little girls... and leading a large international ministry. It was at a time when women leaders were few and not readily accepted, but the Lord gave Melody great favor and continued to use both her and LDM in incredible ways.
In 1985 Melody became a forerunner in the tiny but budding Pro Life Movement. She says. "The Lord told me to move abortion up to the front burner," and of course she took all of LDM with her. She launched Americans Against Abortion at a time when pastors rarely mentioned abortion or felt believers should even address it. But Melody put a fresh face and a non-stoppable energy into being Pro-Life... and she drove the message home, squarely into millions of evangelical hearts.
In this season Melody crossed the nation teaching the biblical perspective on caring for Life, and urging all believers to take a determined stand. Supporting only non-violent means, and wearing a bullet proof vest because of death threats, Melody spoke in churches, held rallies on Capital steps, called secular press conferences, led city wide marches, and picketed abortion clinics. She was even arrested once during a peaceful protest, spending the night in an inner city jail and going home with a head injury.
In the following years God opened many unforeseen doors for Melody. She went to India and met Mother Theresa visiting her “Home For The Destitute and Dying.” She was also invited to the White House to meet with Presidents, Senators, and others in political office. None of it really phased her. She likes to say, "I sat in dirt in India and wore silk to the White House. How weird is that?"
Today Melody still oversees LDM where her voice can be heard on numerous relevant topics from a biblical perspective. Loving to expose people to what she believes is important, she continues to bring LDM readers the teachings of others who she believes have something vital to say.
Believing that caring for others is not an option, Melody established the Good Neighbor Mercy Fund, enabling LDM to raise donations for disaster victims, the sick, and the needy. LDM has already given to victims of the Asian Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina as well as others with pressing needs.
Melody lives in Kansas City, Missouri. Her daughters are happily married and following the Lord with their husbands.
--www.lastdaysministries.org (excerpts)
Melody Green
Louis Bourgeois
1510 - 1561 Topics: The Church at Worship Holy Communion; liturgical Communion Songs; Choruses and Refrains; Forgiveness from God; Grace; Jesus Christ Blood; Jesus Christ Images of; Jesus Christ Words of; Mercy; Penitence; Proper 13 Year A; Holy Thursday Year B; Proper 14 Year B; Proper 15 Year B; Holy Thursday Year C; Easter 4 Year C; Holy thursday Year ABC Composer (melody) of "RENDEZ À DIEU" in Voices United Louis Bourgeois (b. Paris, France, c. 1510; d. Paris, 1561). In both his early and later years Bourgeois wrote French songs to entertain the rich, but in the history of church music he is known especially for his contribution to the Genevan Psalter. Apparently moving to Geneva in 1541, the same year John Calvin returned to Geneva from Strasbourg, Bourgeois served as cantor and master of the choristers at both St. Pierre and St. Gervais, which is to say he was music director there under the pastoral leadership of Calvin. Bourgeois used the choristers to teach the new psalm tunes to the congregation.
The extent of Bourgeois's involvement in the Genevan Psalter is a matter of scholarly debate. Calvin had published several partial psalters, including one in Strasbourg in 1539 and another in Geneva in 1542, with melodies by unknown composers. In 1551 another French psalter appeared in Geneva, Eighty-three Psalms of David, with texts by Marot and de Beze, and with most of the melodies by Bourgeois, who supplied thirty four original tunes and thirty-six revisions of older tunes. This edition was republished repeatedly, and later Bourgeois's tunes were incorporated into the complete Genevan Psalter (1562). However, his revision of some older tunes was not uniformly appreciated by those who were familiar with the original versions; he was actually imprisoned overnight for some of his musical arrangements but freed after Calvin's intervention. In addition to his contribution to the 1551 Psalter, Bourgeois produced a four-part harmonization of fifty psalms, published in Lyons (1547, enlarged 1554), and wrote a textbook on singing and sight-reading, La Droit Chemin de Musique (1550). He left Geneva in 1552 and lived in Lyons and Paris for the remainder of his life.
Bert Polman
Louis Bourgeois
