![]() Silent Night? Holy Night ( Silent Night! Holy Night!).The Advent “Nicknames” Of Jesus ( O Come, O Come, Emmanuel). ![]() Then the carols we have looked at this Advent season are: This has been an ongoing series, so if you would like to catch up with us you can see the Christmas carols we already discussed here, here, and here. These messages will bring a new appreciation of God’s love that was sung at Christ’s Advent, and reawaken the sweetness of meaning for this Christmas Day. Please join me this Sunday as we take a new look at the old familiar messages in our Christmas carols. There are some amazing messages in many of our old familiar Christmas carols, because many of those messages are saturated with the old familiar story of Redemption that the Bible tells over and over again. How many “old familiar carols” have you heard Christmas after Christmas, until the words have almost lost their meaning? If we’re not careful, any song repeated too often can lose the richness of its original intent. Of peace on earth, goodwill to men. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) ![]() If you’ve missed any of the message in this series, you can check them out by clicking here. Let us guard against Christmas ever becoming a humbug-an imposter, something empty of meaning-but let’s make sure the rich meaning of Christ’s peace dwells richly in us! The bells and carols and remembrances of Christ’s First Advent should send our hearts soaring in anticipation of Christ’s Second Advent-when Christ shall return to take all of His own to be with Him forever, where He will wipe away every tear and where we live forever with Him in the New Jerusalem (see Jeremiah 33:9 John 14:3 Revelation 21:1-4). ![]()
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