Another quality album from @AndrewPeterson. Check out a few of my other posts regarding Andrew Peterson.

You can't go wrong with a little Nat King Cole during the Christmas Season. Does this make me old fashioned?

Love and Thunder is a great album by Andrew Peterson. If you are not familiar with his music this would be a good start. Also check out this touching video of illustrations set to the music of his song “Family Man” from this album.

My wife and I enjoy Fernando Ortega and this is one of our favorites:

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Messiah - Part II, No 44. Hallelujah.mp3 (9067 KB)

This always makes our boys smile, which naturally makes us smile as well.

Here is a touching video of illustrations set to the music of Andrew Peterson’s “Family Man” from his album Love and Thunder. Since I’m promoting his music, check out my post on his Behold the Lamb of God album. I also highly recommend his latest release Resurrection Letters, Vol II.

Behold the Lamb of God by Andrew Peterson is one of my favorite Christmas albums. The musical arrangements are unique and there is a lyrical depth that goes beyond what you usually hear from the vast majority of Christian artists. I find myself listening to it throughout the whole year because it tells the story of our Savior and the plan of salvation beginning in the Old Testament and concluding in the New Testament. Andrew Peterson is a gifted musician and storyteller. This is not your standard Christmas music.

Andrew Peterson writes:

"What makes this bunch of songs unique is that I wanted to remind (or teach) the audience that the story of Christmas doesn’t begin with the birth of Jesus. Many people tend to forget or have never even learned that the entire Bible is about Jesus, not just the New Testament. So the musical begins with Moses and the symbolic story of the Passover (Passover Us) and works its way through the kings and the prophets with their many prophecies about the coming Messiah (So Long, Moses) to the awful four hundred years of silence before God told Mary she’d be having a baby (Deliver Us). After the song called Matthew’s Begats, which lists the genealogy of Jesus, the story picks up in more familiar territory with Mary and Joseph and the actual birth (It Came To Pass, Labor of Love). The final song is called Behold, the Lamb of God, which ties together the Passover and the beauty and scope of the story."

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The Valley of Vision is a collection of Puritan prayers & devotions. When asked what books have had a great influence on his life, John MacArthur included The Valley of Vision among them.

Puritans like John Bunyan, Thomas Watson, Richard Baxter, and Isaac Watts knew their hearts, their Bibles, and their God much better than we do. Their prayers reveal a personal, humble, passionate relationship with an awesome God, a living Savior, and an active Spirit. Reading their meditations should inspire us to pursue the same level of reality as we worship God.

I have also been greatly encouraged by an album of songs inspired by The Valley of Vision released by Sovereign Grace Music. Available here or on iTunes.

You can’t beat this. Covenant Life Church has released a great album of hymns. I have really enjoyed this album. You can get it here for whatever you feel is fair—no questions asked (or for free if you tell five friends about the album).

Hymns have served the people of God for generations and will endure long after we’re gone. They are time-tested and true. They speak to every circumstance of life and point us to the wisdom, love and power of our gracious God and Savior.