Songs for Sunday, December 21, 2025 @ Christ Community Church (Advent Week 4)

Tomorrow is the Lord’s day, and I’m excited.

I know we are entering into a very busy season and your week is likely full — or filling up quickly. Between the hustling and bustling, errands and expectations, it can feel hard to slow down or make space.

It’s easy to get wrapped up in searching for presents to give and wondering what we might receive, but let’s remember that the reason for the season is the presence of Jesus — Emmanuel, God with us. We make time to gather for so many things this season; let’s not allow gathering with our faith family in worship of Jesus to fall to the wayside.

So, here’s a gentle invitation: take a few minutes. Read through the Scriptures for tomorrow. Listen to the songs we’ll sing — maybe even in the car between stops or during a quiet moment at home. Let God’s Word prepare your heart to gather and make much of Jesus together.

We’d love to worship Jesus with you tomorrow as we fix our eyes on Jesus, the One who has come and who is coming again.

Everyone is welcome.

Here are our Advent reading, Scriptures, and songs:

Advent Reading | Love —

The fourth candle invites us to remember the deep love of God revealed in the coming of His Son. Scripture tells us plainly what that love looks like: “God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8), “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son” (John 3:16), and as 1 John reminds us, “In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent His only Son into the world… not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:9–10).

Hebrews helps us see how that love was carried out. Jesus entered once for all into the holy place, not with the blood of animals, but with His own blood, securing eternal redemption for us (Hebrews 9:12). His sacrifice was not reluctant—it was willing and obedient love. “A body you have prepared for Me,” the Son declared, coming to do the Father’s will for our salvation (Hebrews 10:5–7). Christmas shows us that love did not stay distant—it took on flesh.

The manger leads to the cross, and both reveal the unchanging love of God for sinners. As this candle of love burns brightly, may it draw our hearts to the One who loved us first and teach us to reflect that same sacrificial love to others.

Scripture | Hebrews 9:11-12 —

¹¹But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) ¹²he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.

Song | O Holy Night —
Scripture Inspiration: Luke 2:9-11, Romans 3:23, John 3:16, Isaiah 9:2, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Malachi 4:2, Philippians 2:10-11, John 13:34-35, Matthew 22:37-40, Galatians 5:1, Psalm 95:1-2, Psalm 103:1

Song | God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (medley) —
Scripture Inspiration: Matthew 1:18-25, Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:1-20, John 3:16-17, Romans 5:8, Galatians 1:4, John 8:12, Micah 5:2, Revelation 19:16, Psalm 78:35

Scripture | 1 John 4:9-10 —

⁹In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. ¹⁰In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.