1. Longing for light, we wait in darkness.
   Longing for truth, we turn to you.
   Make us your own, your holy people,
   light for the world to see.

Christ, be our light!
Shine in our hearts.
Shine through the darkness.
Christ, be our light!
Shine in your Church gathered today.

2. Longing for peace, our world is troubled.
   Longing for hope, many despair.
   Your word alone has power to save us.
   Make us your living voice.

1. Light of the world,
   you stepped down into darkness,
   opened my eyes, let me see
   beauty that made this heart adore you,
   hope of a life spent with you.

So here I am to worship,
here I am to bow down,
here I am to say that you're my God,
and you're altogether lovely,
altogether worthy,
altogether wonderful to me.

1. Great is the darkness that covers the earth,
   oppression, injustice and pain.
   Nations are slipping in hopeless despair,
   though many have come in your name.
   Watching while sanity dies,
   touched by the madness and lies.

Come, Lord Jesus, come, Lord Jesus,
pour out your Spirit we pray,
come, Lord Jesus, come, Lord Jesus,
pour out your Spirit on us today.

1. Jesus Christ is waiting,
   waiting in the streets;
   no one is his neighbour,
   all alone he eats.
   Listen, Lord Jesus,
   I am lonely too:
   make me, friend or stranger,
   fit to wait on you.

2. Jesus Christ is raging,
   raging in the streets,
   where injustice spirals
   and real hope retreats.
   Listen, Lord Jesus,
   I am angry too:
   in the Kingdom's causes
   let me rage with you.

3. Jesus Christ is healing,
   healing in the streets,
   curing those who suffer,
   touching those he greets.
   Listen, Lord Jesus,
   I have pity too:
   let my care be active,
   healing, just like you.

1. Like a candle flame,
   flickering small in our darkness.
   Uncreated light
   shines through infant eyes.

God is with us, alleluia.
God is with us, alleluia.
Come to save us, alleluia.
Come to save us.
Alleluia!

1. Hills of the north, rejoice,
   river and mountain-spring,
   hark to the advent voice;
   valley and lowland, sing.
   Christ comes in righteousness and love,
   he brings salvation from above.

2. Isles of the southern seas,
   sing to the listening earth;
   carry on every breeze
   hope of a world’s new birth:
   in Christ shall all be made anew;
   his word is sure, his promise true.

3. Lands of the east, arise!
   He is your brightest morn;
   greet him with joyous eyes,
   let praise his path adorn:
   your seers have longed to know their Lord;
   to you he comes, the final Word.

1. Wild and lone the prophet's voice
   echoes through the desert still,
   calling us to make a choice,
   bidding us to do God's will:
   ‘Turn from sin and be baptised;
   cleanse your heart and mind and soul.
   Quitting all the sin you prized,
   yield your life to God's control.'

2. ‘Bear the fruit repentance sows:
   lives of justice, truth, and love.
   Trust no other claim than those;
   set your heart on things above.
   Soon the Lord will come in power,
   burning clean the threshing floor:
   then will flames the chaff devour;
   wheat alone shall fill God's store.'

1. Let us break bread together with the Lord;
   let us break bread together with the Lord:

When I fall on my knees,
with my face to the rising sun,
O Lord, have mercy on me.

1. On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry
   announces that the Lord is nigh;
   awake and hearken, for he brings
   glad tidings from the King of kings!

2. Then cleansed be every life from sin;
   make straight the way for God within,
   and let us all our hearts prepare
   for Christ to come and enter there.

3. For you are our salvation, Lord,
   our refuge, and our great reward;
   without your grace we waste away
   like flowers that wither and decay.

1. Sing we the King who is coming to reign;
   glory to Jesus, the Lamb that was slain!
   Life and salvation his empire shall bring,
   joy to the nations when Jesus is King:

Come let us sing: praise to our King,
Jesus our King, Jesus our King:
this is our song, who to Jesus belong:
glory to Jesus, to Jesus our King.

2. All shall be well in his kingdom of peace;
   freedom shall flourish and wisdom increase;
   justice and truth from his sceptre shall spring;
   wrong shall be ended when Jesus is King:

1. Christ is the world's light, Christ and none other;
   born in our darkness, he became our brother.
   If we have seen him, we have seen the Father:
   glory to God on high.

2. Christ is the world's Peace, Christ and none other;
   no one can serve him and despise another;
   who else unites us, one in God the Father?
   Glory to God on high.

3. Christ is the world's Life, Christ and none other;
   sold once for silver, murdered here, our brother —
   he, who redeems us, reigns with God the Father:
   glory to God on high.

4. Give God the glory, God and none other;
   give God the glory, Spirit, Son, and Father;
   give God the glory, God with us, my brother:
   glory to God on high.

Fred Pratt Green (1903–2000)
© 1969, Stainer & Bell Ltd  Used by permission  CCLI Streaming Licence 583214

1. Of the Father's love begotten
   ere the worlds began to be,
   he is Alpha and Omega,
   he the source, the ending he,
   of the things that are, that have been,
   and that future years shall see,
   evermore and evermore.

2. By his word was all created;
   he commanded, it was done;
   earth and sky and boundless ocean,
   universe of three in one;
   all that sees the moon's soft radiance,
   all that breathes beneath the sun,
   evermore and evermore.

1. And did those feet in ancient time
   walk upon England's mountains green?
   And was the holy Lamb of God
   on England's pleasant pastures seen?
   And did the countenance divine
   shine forth upon our clouded hills?
   And was Jerusalem builded here
   among these dark satanic mills?

1. I cannot tell why he, whom angels worship,
   should set his love upon us, now or then,
   or why, as Shepherd, he should seek the wanderers,
   to bring them back, they know not how or when.
   But this I know, that he was born of Mary
   when Bethlem's manger was his only home,
   and that he lived at Nazareth and laboured,
   and so the Saviour, Saviour of the world, is come.

2. I cannot tell how silently he suffered,
   as with his peace he graced this place of tears,
   or how his heart upon the cross was broken,
   the crown of pain to three-and-thirty years.
   But this I know, he heals the broken-hearted,
   and stays our sin, and calms our lurking fear,
   and lifts the burden from the heavy-laden,
   for yet the Saviour, Saviour of the world, is here.