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Why “Joy to the World” shouldn’t be a Christmas Carol
It's a hopeful declaration: the Lord is come! But is the song "Joy to the World" based in the Bible at all? I'm going through well-known Christmas carols to see how they line up with the Bible. "O Holy Night" turned out to be pretty biblical. "We Three Kings" has some...
There’s no way Jesus was born on a “Silent Night”
On Christmas Eve in 1818, a small-town Austrian congregation heard the hymn "Silent Night" for the first time. Since then, the song has been translated into at least 142 languages. It's one of the world's best-loved Christmas carols. But was it really a silent night?...
If you only know the first verse of “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” you’re missing out.
Almost every line from "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" could be developed into an individual blog post, sermon, or book. The lyrics are poetic, encouraging, and (for the most part) biblical. I've been looking forward to examining this hymn against Scripture—I think...