Your 2022 Advent Devotional Playlist

We hope you are enjoying this year's Advent devotional series. A special thank you goes out to Amy Kinzer, from the Champaign (Illinois, USA) Church, who recorded four beautiful Christmas hymns to go along with the devotionals.

Each song ties in with one of the devotional topics. To hear a song, click on the graphics below. To see the lyrics for the five hymns, you may scroll to the bottom of this page.

Enjoy!

About Amy

Amy Kinzer is a wife, mother, and campus minister in Champaign, Illinois. She has been singing since she was a little girl, and she’s grateful that God allows her to use her talents for worship in the kingdom of God. She is a proud Illinois resident, but her heart also lives in her former homes of Wisconsin and Tennessee. Her loves include cooking, journaling in her Bible, and making up silly songs with her toddler.

Joy to the World

By Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

Joy to the world, the Lord is come
Let Earth receive her King
Let every heart prepare Him room
And Heaven and nature sing
And Heaven and nature sing
And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing

Joy to the Earth, the Savior reigns
Let men their songs employ
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy

No more let sins and sorrows grow
Nor thorns infest the ground
He comes to make his blessings flow
Far as the curse is found
Far as the curse if found
Far as, far as the curse is found

He rules the world with truth and grace
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness
And wonders of His love
And wonders of His love
And wonders, wonders, of His love

O Holy Night

Music by Adolphe-Charles Adam
Lyrics by John S. Dwight

O holy night! The stars are brightly shining,
It is the night of the dear Savior’s birth;
Long lay the world in sin and error pining,
Till he appeared and the soul felt its worth.
A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices,
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn;

Chorus:

Fall on your knees, O hear the angel voices!
O night divine! O night when Christ was born.
O night, O holy night, O night divine.

Led by the light of Faith serenely beaming;
With glowing hearts by his cradle we stand:
So, led by light of a star sweetly gleaming,
Here come the wise men from Orient land,
The King of Kings lay thus in lowly manger,
In all our trials born to be our friend;

Chorus:
He knows our need, our weakness is no stranger;
Behold your King! Before him lowly bend!
Behold your King! Before him lowly bend!

Truly he taught us to love one another;
His law is love and his gospel is peace;
Chains shall he break, for the slave is our brother,
And in his name all oppression shall cease,
Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we;
Let all within us praise his Holy name!

Chorus:
Christ is the Lord! O praise his name forever!
His pow'r and glory, evermore proclaim!
His pow'r and glory, evermore proclaim!

We Three Kings

By John Henry Hopkins, Jr.

[Verse 1: All]
We three kings of Orient are;
Bearing gifts we traverse afar.
Field and fountain, moor and mountain,
Following yonder star: