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Year C, Advent, Third Sunday

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Readings

First Reading:	Zephaniah 3:14-20
Psalm:	Isaiah 12:2-6
Second Reading:	Philippians 4:4-7
Gospel:	Luke 3:7-18

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Hymns

• Awake! Awake, and Greet the New Morn
• Baptized in Water
• Canticle of Thanksgiving
• O for a Thousand Tongues
• Rejoice! Rejoice, Believers
• Somebody's Knocking at Your Door
• Soon and Very Soon
• The Desert Shall Rejoice
• Wild and Lone the Prophet's Voice

Hymns Recommended by Experts

Joy to the World

This is recommended for Year C, Advent, Third Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #92.

O for a Thousand Tongues

This is recommended for Year C, Advent, Third Sunday by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #610 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #590.

Wild and Lone the Prophet's Voice

This is recommended for Year C, Advent, Third Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #163.

O God of Every Nation

This is recommended for Year C, Advent, Third Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #756.

Now Thank We All Our God

This is recommended for Year C, Advent, Third Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #543.

Come, Thou long expected Jesus

This is recommended for Year C, Advent, Third Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #82.

Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

This is recommended for Year C, Advent, Third Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #581.

Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart

This is recommended for Year C, Advent, Third Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #353.

In the Bleak Midwinter

This is recommended for Year C, Advent, Third Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #144.

On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry

This is recommended for Year C, Advent, Third Sunday by 4 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #96 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #70.

What a Friend We Have in Jesus

This is recommended for Year C, Advent, Third Sunday by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #465.

O Day of Peace That Dimly Shines

Relates to hope expressed in Zephaniah 3 and theme of repentance in Luke 3

Hark, the Glad Sound

This is recommended for Year C, Advent, Third Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes.

Recommendations for Philippians 4:4-7

Rejoice in the Lord Always

This is recommended for Philippians 4:4 by 15 hymnal scripture indexes including Baptist Hymnal 1991 #433.

Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart

This is recommended for Philippians 4:4 by 16 hymnal scripture indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #804, Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #353, and The United Methodist Hymnal #74b.

Rejoice, the Lord is King!

This is recommended for Philippians 4:4 by 41 hymnal scripture indexes including African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal #88, Baptist Hymnal 1991 #197, Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #224, and Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) #309.

What a Friend We Have in Jesus

This is recommended for Philippians 4:6 by 17 hymnal scripture indexes including African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal #323 and Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #465.