Proclaim the Bridegroom Near
by Chicago Metro Presbytery Music
-
Digital Album
Immediate download of 16-track album in your choice of MP3 320, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.Buy Now $8 USD
-
Physical CD
Eco-Wallet
Includes immediate download of 16-track album in your choice of MP3 320, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.Buy Now $10 USD
ships within 4 days -
Share
1. |
||||
|
| ||||
2. |
||||
|
| ||||
3. |
Prepare the Way, O Zion
02:38
|
|||
|
| ||||
4. |
||||
|
| ||||
5. |
Comfort Ye My People
02:37
|
|||
|
| ||||
6. |
||||
|
| ||||
7. |
||||
|
| ||||
8. |
||||
|
| ||||
9. |
||||
|
| ||||
10. |
Away in a Manger
02:49
|
|||
11. |
||||
12. |
Glory be to God on High
03:12
|
|||
|
| ||||
13. |
Sing We Now of Christmas
02:48
|
|||
14. |
||||
15. |
We Three Kings
03:55
|
|||
16. |
||||
about
The Church has been singing the texts of some of these Advent and Christmastide songs for centuries. They capture the sojourn of God’s people in particularly poignant and haunting ways. It’s a beautiful and sometimes maddening paradox to live in the piercing light of the Incarnation and yet at times feel so helplesly lost and defeated. Advent and Christmastide is the story we live right now. We wait again expectantly for the return of the King in power ... and as we wait, we sing these pilgrim songs. When we return to these songs every year we are slowly formed into a people that are no longer ovewhelmed by the darkness around us: Our hope is confident, our love is selfless, our joy is contagious, and our peace enduring.
Merry Christmas and Peace,
Paul van der Bijl
Director of Worship and Music
Covenant Presbyterian Church of Chicago
Merry Christmas and Peace,
Paul van der Bijl
Director of Worship and Music
Covenant Presbyterian Church of Chicago
credits
released 04 December 2011
Produced by Paul van der Bijl and Jason Reed
Track 7 produced by Steve Hendershot and Chris Gelin, engineered and mixed by Chris Gelin
All songs recorded at Covenant Presbyterian Church of Chicago except track 7. Portions of tracks 3, 4, 5, 9, and 12 were recorded in Prospect Heights, IL
All songs arranged by Paul van der Bijl and Jason Reed (unless otherwise noted)
Edited, mixed and mastered by Troy Bartholomew, Cary, IL
Design, cover photo and layout by Paul van der Bijl
© Covenant Presbyterian Church of Chicago, 2011, All Rights Reserved
Produced by Paul van der Bijl and Jason Reed
Track 7 produced by Steve Hendershot and Chris Gelin, engineered and mixed by Chris Gelin
All songs recorded at Covenant Presbyterian Church of Chicago except track 7. Portions of tracks 3, 4, 5, 9, and 12 were recorded in Prospect Heights, IL
All songs arranged by Paul van der Bijl and Jason Reed (unless otherwise noted)
Edited, mixed and mastered by Troy Bartholomew, Cary, IL
Design, cover photo and layout by Paul van der Bijl
© Covenant Presbyterian Church of Chicago, 2011, All Rights Reserved
tags
license
all rights reserved
feeds
feeds for about
A collaborative Christmas album by the churches of the Chicago Metro Presbytery of the PCA.
contact / help
For help with downloads, click here.
For all other inquiries, including help with merch, click here.
Redeem download codes here.
- Track Name: Covenant Choral Ensemble - O Come O Come Emmanuel
-
Song for Advent -
Music: http://covenantchicago.org/pdf/OComeEmmanuelChoir.pdf - Track Name: Hark a Thrilling Voice is Sounding
-
Song for Advent -
Music:
http://covenantchicago.org/pdf/HarkAThrilling.pdf - Track Name: Prepare the Way, O Zion
-
Song for Advent -
Music:
http://covenantchicago.org/pdf/PrepareTheWay.pdf - Track Name: Hark! 'Tis the Watchman's Cry
-
Song for Advent -
C
Hark! ’tis the watchman’s cry,
C_______G________C
“Wake, brethren, wake!”
Jesus Himself is nigh;
C_____G_______C
Wake, brethren, wake!
C
Sleep is for sons of night;
C___________F_____G
Ye are children of the light,
C
Yours is the glory bright;
C______G_______C
Wake, brethren, wake!
Call to each wakening band,
“Watch, brethren, watch!”
Clear is our Lord’s command;
Watch, brethren, watch!
Be ye as men that wait
Always at the Master’s gate,
E’en though He tarry late;
Watch, brethren, watch!
Hear we the Shepherd’s voice,
“Pray, brethren, pray!”
Would ye His heart rejoice?
Pray, brethren, pray!
Sin calls for constant fear,
Weakness needs the Strong One near
Long as ye struggle here;
Pray, brethren, pray!
Now sound the final chord,
“Praise, brethren, praise!”
Thrice holy is our Lord;
Praise, brethren, praise!
What more befits the tongue
Soon to join the angels’ songs,
While Heav’n the note prolongs,
Praise, brethren, praise! - Track Name: Comfort Ye My People
- Song for Advent: from Handel's Messiah
- Track Name: Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers
-
Song for Advent -
Music:
http://covenantchicago.org/pdf/Rejoice Rejoice Believers with chords'.pdf - Track Name: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
-
Song for Christmastide -
Music:
http://covenantchicago.org/pdf/LetAllMortal FleshKeep Silencecc.pdf
http://covenantchicago.org/pdf/LetAllMortal FleshLS.pdf - Track Name: Twas in the Moon of Wintertime
-
Am
’Twas in the moon of wintertime,
___________G______Am
When all the birds had fled,
Am
That God the Lord of all the earth
__________G_____Am
Sent angel choirs instead;
C________________G
Before their light the stars grew dim,
_____Am
And wondering hunters heard the hymn:
Refrain
Em-Am____G____E7
Jesus your King is born,
Am_G___Am
Jesus is born,
Am______E7_Am
In excelsis Gloria.
The earliest moon of wintertime
Is not so round and fair
As was the ring of glory around
the Infant there.
Before their light the stars grew dim,
And wondering hunters heard the hymn:
Refrain
O children of the forest free,
The angels' song is true,
The holy Child of earth and Heav’n
Is born today for you.
Come kneel before the radiant Boy,
Who brings you beauty, peace and joy. - Track Name: On this Day Earth Shall Ring
-
Song for Christmastide -
Music:
http://covenantchicago.org/pdf/onthisday.pdf - Track Name: Glory be to God on High
-
Song for Christmastide -
Music:
http://covenantchicago.org/pdf/GloryBeToGod.pdf
