Full Service - First Sunday of Advent - Year B

First Sunday in Advent - Year B

Service contains:

Hymn: O come, O come, Immanuel or In this time’s anticipation

Prayer: Oh God, isn’t it time

Hymn: The Church of Christ in every age or Bread of tears and bitter weeping

Poem: Restoration - based on Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19

Reading: Isaiah 64:1-9

Hymn: Come, Lord, to our souls come down or Mountains quake and people tremble

Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 Mark 13:24-37

Sermon idea: Poem: When that great day comes

(This item could be used with two voices or with a leader and a response)

Hymn: Go forth and tell! O church of God awake or God's faithfulness calls us to follow, to follow

Prayer: God of enlightenment

Hymn: There’s a light upon the mountains or All light will be eclipsed,

Blessing: We go out with God’s message.

Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
Words © Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk.
Please include any reproduction for local church and school use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd