ZACHARY'S NOTES:

Stanza 1 // When Christ “enters” our “human story” he comes to destroy all of the stories we tell ourselves and one another. The Pharisees who placed limits on God’s action in the Law - Jesus comes that we might know “unbounded grace” in His Word.

Stanza 2 // We rise, shine, and sing to Christ because of what He comes to accomplish. Our Lord comes to those “surrounded by death and sin” - to send “the pow’r of evil reeling” and give those without hope “freedom, light…life, and healing.” Where even Scripture causes us to ask whether we have spoken and acted against God’s name, Christ comes to forgive.

Stanza 3 // The strength of Christ to bind the devil and come for sinners is the power Christ gives to His people! This is “our song” and “our prayer” as God’s forgiven people - that the world would see and appreciate God for who He is and what He has done.

Stanza 4 // When Christ makes us a “new creation” by His promise, we see a God “outside His mind” as God at work for us, saving and giving us freedom.

OTHER SUGGESTIONS

ELW 665 - Rise, Shine, You People! // WOJTKIEWIECZ

ELW 503/504 - A Mighty Fortress Is Our God - EIN FESTE BURG

ELW 517 - Lord, Keep Us Steadfast In Your Word - ERHALT UNS, HERR

ELW 621 - Jesus Lives, My Sure Defense - JESU, MEINE ZUVERSICHT

ELW 665 - Rise, Shine, You People! - WOJTKIEWIECZ

ELW 766 - Lord of Our Life - ISTE CONFESSOR

ELW 843 - Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness - NETTLETON

LBW 228/229 - A Mighty Fortress Is Our God - EIN FESTE BURG

LBW 230 - Lord, Keep Us Steadfast In Your Word - ERHALT UNS, HERR

LBW 340 - Jesus Christ, My Sure Defense - JESU, MEINE ZUVERSICHT

LBW 366 - Lord of Our Life - ISTE CONFESSOR

LBW 393 - Rise, Shine, You People! - WOJTKIEWIECZ

LSB 655 - Lord, Keep Us Steafast In Your Word - ERHALT UNS, HERR

LSB 656/657 - A Mighty Fortress Is Our God - EIN FESTE BURG

LSB 659 - Lord of Our Life - ISTE CONFESSOR

LSB 666 - O LIttle Flock, Fear Not the Foe - KOMMT HER ZU MIR

LSB 741 - Jesus Christ, My Sure Defense - JESU, MEINE ZUVERSICHT

LSB 825 - Rise, Shine, You People! - WOJTKIEWIECZ

LSB 849 - Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness - NETTLETON

RH 71 - Lord, Keep Us Steadfast In Your Word - ERHALT UNS, HERR

RH 169/170 - A Mighty Fortress Is Our God - EIN FESTE BURG