Songs for Sunday, December 28, 2025 @ Christ Community Church (Advent Week 5)

Tomorrow is the Lord’s day, and as Advent draws to a close, our focus remains right where it belongs — on JESUS!

We’ll still sing about the incarnation tomorrow morning, even with December 25 behind us, because God taking on flesh and dwelling among us isn’t something we celebrate for a season and then move on from. There’s no Good Friday or Easter without Christmas. There’s no second coming without the first. The Child born in Bethlehem is the God who saves, reigns, and will come again.

As we light the Christ candle, we’re reminded that Jesus is the center of the gospel Story and our salvation — every season, every Sunday, every day. So, take a few moments to read the Scriptures for tomorrow and listen through the songs. Let them help prepare your heart as we gather to make much of Jesus.

We’d love for you to join us tomorrow as we sing, hear God’s Word preached, and praise the Savior who has come and is coming again — and all the more as the Day draws near (Hebrews 10:25).

Everyone is welcome!

Here is our Advent reading and our Scriptures and songs:

Advent Reading | CHRIST —

The Christ candle stands at the center of Advent, just as Jesus stands at the center of the gospel Story and our salvation. Hebrews opens by telling us that God has spoken fully and finally through His Son – the radiance of His glory and the exact imprint of His nature (Hebrews 1:1-3). The Child born in Bethlehem is the eternal Son who upholds the universe by the word of his power and who made purification for sin before sitting down at the right hand of God.
Although December 25^th has passed, we don’t stop celebrating what God has done. We continue to rejoice that God put on flesh and dwelt among us – entering our world to save us. His birth led to His cross, His cross to His resurrection, and His resurrection to His unending reign. Even now, He lives to intercede for His people, and He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him (Hebrews 7:25).
And as we look back with gratitude on Jesus’s first coming, we also look forward with confidence to His return. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever (Hebrews 13:8), and the God who was faithful to send His Son will be faithful to bring His promises to completion. As we light the Christ candle, let us celebrate the Savior who has come, trust the Savior who reigns, and hold fast to our hope in the Savior who will come again – for He who promised is faithful (Hebrews 10:23).

Scripture | Hebrews 1:1-4 —

¹Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, ²but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. ³He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, ⁴having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

Song | “Noel” —
Scripture Inspiration: John 1:14, 1 John 4:9-10, Matthew 2:1-2, Luke 2:9-14, Matthew 2:11, Philippians 2:10-11, John 4:42, Isaiah 9:6, Luke 1:32-33, Revelation 11:15, Psalm 66:5, Romans 5:8, Ephesians 2:4-5, John 1:4-5, John 8:12, John 3:16, Romans 1:16, Matthew 16:16, Luke 19:10, John 1:1-2, Colossians 1:16-17, Micah 5:2, Isaiah 53:4-6, Matthew 20:28, 1 Corinthians 15:20-22, Romans 6:4-5, Hebrews 13:8

Song | “Joy to the World (Joyful, Joyful)” —
Scripture Inspiration: Psalm 98, Malachi 3:1-2, Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 11:10, John 12:15, 1 Timothy 6:13-16, Revelation 17:14, Revelation 19:11-16, Matthew 25:1-13, Genesis 3:14-24, Galatians 3:13, Revelation 21:1-7, John 14:6, Exodus 33:19, Psalm 103:8, Isaiah 60:1-22, Psalm 100:1-2, Philippians 4:4, Psalm 29:2-3, 1 John 4:8-10, Ezekiel 36:26, Malachi 4:2

Scripture | John 1:1-5, 9-14 —

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²He was in the beginning with God. ³All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. ⁴In him was life, and the life was the light of men. ⁵The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it….
⁹The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. ¹⁰He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. ¹¹He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. ¹²But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, ¹³who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
¹⁴And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.