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Sunday Worship: Cities of Promise – A place in the heart

Cities of Promise – A place in the heart

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A Service for the 3rd Sunday of Advent with Chapel Choir of Methodist College, Belfast.

A Service for the 3rd Sunday of Advent with the Chapel Choir of Methodist College, Belfast.

During this era of Covid the city seems to have been devalued as a place of human flourishing. Instead it's become a place of fear of contamination - a place to get away from, no longer a sought after place to live. But the biblical view is of a redeemed city, a place where human culture is valued alongside restored relationships - a place of beauty and worship of the living God.  On the 3rd Sunday Advent, the theme is A Place in the Heart. Father Martin Magill and the Rev David Compton reflect on what this means for the City of Belfast. 
With the Chapel Choir of Methodist College, Belfast, directed by Ruth McCartney. The organist is Dr Joe McKee.  
St Luke 1.46-55 
Come thou long expected Jesus 
Mary's Child by (Chilcott) 
Softly   (Will Todd) 
The Hands that first held Mary's child (Dan Forrest) 
A Christmas Lullaby (Dan Forrest) 
Still still still   Mack Wilberg 
Sweet little Jesus boy 
On Jordan's bank the Baptist’s cry

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