Yes, the pre-Christmas Eve service, consisting of a few good songs that just didn’t work for the coming Christmas Eve service, accompanied by a few appropriate worship tunes. Here’s how it went;

Angels We Have Heard on High
O Come Let Us Adore Him- traditional & Matt Redman Version
I Adore You- Phil Wickham
(Sermon)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman – The November Green Version
Humble King – Brenton Brown
King of Glory – Chris Tomlin

It would be real easy to play the first two tunes exactly the same, but I thought that might get old. So we played Angels with just a simple G to C on 4, medium groove and then played all of the half-note/ quarter-note chords on the Chorus. I liked it. O Come Let Us Adore Him, pretty straight up-tempo until going to cut time feel used by Matt Redman on one of the Passion Live CDs. Was very pleased with the way the Wickham tune closed out this set in good worship. God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman, good dramatic tension, except when I flubbed the lyrics to the second verse, oh well. Was checking, out Brenton Brown’s blog, and came across this version of Humble King with a Christmas Verse, that I had never heard before, and thought this would be a good E-minor transitional song. When I finished playing this song, it just seemed to want to take me to a slow chorus of “Who is this King of Glory? The Lord, strong and Mighty” and than we speed up the tempo, and closed out the service. It was a good morning of worship. Next-up, Christmas Eve, and I’m off next Sunday so I’ll recap that on next Monday, the 29th. Merry Christmas!