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Sunday Resources
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ADVENT 2007
Edited by Rev Elder Glenna Shepherd and Rev Pressley
Sutherland
Editors’ Note: This resource is to offer
strategic components of worship in order to weave the theme DARE TO
DREAM throughout Advent services. We have used the term
“dream” in various ways: as hope, as imagination, as
foreshadowing of reality, as vision and revelation of God’s
promises, as envisioning God’s love, justice and peace made
manifest in our world, as reality that seems too good to be true.
The themes for the five services are: Dreams that Awaken, Dreams
of Spirit and Fire, Dreams of Justice, Dreams of Love and Light, and
Beyond Our Wildest Dreams.
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For the four Sundays of Advent and for Christmas Eve,
we’ve included most of these elements: the Lectionary Texts
for the day, suggestions for Setting the Space, a Call to Worship, a
corporate Confession, a Hymn, a Solo Song, and a Contemporary
Lesson. Depending on your tradition and structure,
you’ll want to add songs and other liturgical pieces to complete
the order of worship. Some congregations sing Christmas carols
throughout the Advent season, but we’ve suggested some less
familiar songs and hymns and have included music for those that may be
difficult to find. And we’ve written new texts to a couple
of songs to develop the theme DARE TO DREAM, including the title song
which we suggest using each Sunday in Advent. Perhaps you could
connect this song with the lighting of the Advent wreath.
We have not included a contemporary reading for
Christmas Eve with the idea that the story will stand alone.
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THEME FOR THE SEASON DARE TO
DREAM
A SONG
Dare to Dream
Music by Jallen Rix/Words by Jallen Rix and Glenna Shepherd.
USED BY PERMISSION OF AUTHORS.
PDF-format music is found on the CD Songs of Praise from a Strange Land
© BALM Music – www.balmministries.com
[Use this stanza as a
REFRAIN]
When your love is made a mockery,
When your heart’s locked and someone holds the key,
Dare to dream and know that you are not alone,
Dare to dream, and watch what it brings.
Dare to dream and do the work that Christ began,
But dare to dream.
[1st Sunday of Advent]
When our world is broken, seized by war,
When what matters is twisted to the core,
Dare to dream that Christ can live on earth again,
Dare to dream that Light can break through.
Dare to dream, to stay awake and live God’s Peace,
Just dare to dream.
[2nd Sunday of
Advent]
When we can no longer find the path
When last shreds of innocence is
past
Dare to dream of One who rights the wrong at
last,
Dare to dream of pain truly
healed!
Dare to dream that old can die and new
emerge
With John we dream!
[3rd Sunday of Advent]
When we find ourselves in desert dry,
When injustice triumphs over right,
Dare to dream and call God’s justice into life,
Dare to dream – proclaim victory!
Dare to dream – emerge into Christ’s freedom,
With Mary - dream.
[4th Sunday of
Advent]
In the fullness of God’s dream we
find
Hope and wonder – born again in
time.
Dare to dream of God-in-flesh Emmanuel.
Dare to dream Christ’s birth in you
today!
Dare to dream and know the joy this night brings forth – If we
dare to dream.
[Christmas Eve]
Star and angels witness to the dream,
Shepherds fall in fear as glories stream,
Dare to dream - and in that dream find God's own son,
In that dream, know hope and joy restored.
Dare to dream that Christ is born anew this night, Just dare to
dream!
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