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One of our Favorite Christmas Albums
You can't go wrong with a little Nat King Cole during the Christmas Season. Does this make me old fashioned?
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Linus Explains What Christmas Is All About
Our boys are obsessed with A Charlie Brown Christmas right now.
This is my favorite scene. Linus explains the true meaning of Christmas by quoting directly from Luke 2:8-14 (KJV). I love the fact that this is actually on network television every Christmas season.
It is interesting to note that network executives did not want to have Linus reciting the story of the birth of Christ from the Gospel of Luke; the network thinking of the time assumed that viewers would not want to sit through passages of the King James Version of the Bible. Charles Schulz was adamant about keeping this scene in, remarking that "If we don't tell the true meaning of Christmas, who will?" (taken from Wikipedia)
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Andrew Peterson’s “Behold the Lamb of God”
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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