I'm there with ya! I like Christmas carols--I'm no Scrooge--but we tend to extend the season as far back as Halloween, taking the lead of our freiendly neighborhood retailers. There are some really good Advent hymns, and there are some lousy ones. There enough good ones that if uses judiciously, it causes us to long for thefew days before 25 December when carols will be played incessantly. Plus,the Advent songs help do what the season is supposed to do: prepare us spiritually for the arrival of the Christ child--and there's a lot more behind that than just a baby lying in a feeding box. We have two new Ministers of Worship and Arts at our Lutheran Church. One isa Lutheran but has little liturgical or hymnodic knowledge, and the other has 30 years of experience in non-denominational congregations. I've been spending the last few months helping them get up to speed in these areas. It's been a challenge, but they're coming around to seeing how the church calendar works and what music goes along with it. Our first midweek Advent service is this evening, and we have a mix of Adventand Christmas songs planned, all centered around prophecy and fulfillment. In my conservative and evangelical mind, that plan is satisfactory. Richard Wildhirt St. Luke's Lutheran Church Federal Way, WA Rodgers 940/PR-300S >From: "noel jones, aago" >Reply-To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [rodgersorgan] Christmas Music at Christmas >Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 19:35:55 -0400 >>Free Priority Mail Shipping through the Holidays from on music from Frog Music Press! >============================================================================ _ ==== >>I, too, have a problem with Christmas Carols in church during Advent...I know of an organist at a Methodist Church which celebrates the Church Year who has been faced with a baptist director of music who states that "Every Sunday is Easter Sunday..." >>"The people want to sing carols." >>"The people want guitars and praise bands." >>"The people want churches to be like the churches on TV." >>"The people want to sing the words from screens like at football and basketball arenas." >>I have to say that I rarely, if ever, have heard these words come out of the people's mouths who are happy members of churches. Have you? In court most worship decisions would be considered to be made upon hearsay. >>-- >noel jones, aago >athens, tennessee, usa >------------------------------- >frog music press >rodgers organ users group >www.frogmusic.com >>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~ >A MIDI Musical Christmas will delight your ears! Buy now for Christmasmusic making. >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~ >To unsubscribe or change mail delivery (digest, vacation) or to see new PR-300 MUSIC >go to our website at www.frogmusic.com/rodgers.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The new MSN 8:[1] smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* --- Links --- 1 http://g.msn.com/8HMSEN/2018 - May all your bloopers be grace notes this hoiliday season! From the Staff at FMP To unsubscribe or change mail delivery (digest, vacation) go to our website at www.frogmusic.com/rodgers.html