Some interesting websites concerning the birth of Christ...
http://www.themoorings.org/apologetics/chronology/Chrmas.htmlhttp://www.redbay.com/ekklesia/birth.htm A very good site, not as hard to read as the other. Lots of cool facts.
This one is great too...
http://www.new-life.net/chrtms10.htmI like listening to the radio around Christmas...lots of great music that ought to be played year-round...I don't like Santa and Jingle Bell stuff, but there's a big supply of the songs I do like.
I've been craving noise this holiday season. I just can't stand to hear Christmas sung quiet and sweet. This is the God-man, the Mystery, the Word Made Flesh, and He's coming back with the hosts of heaven. A group called the Trans Siberian Orchestra does a pretty good job meeting my noise need, although I've only heard one or two of their songs...
I was thinking this year how hard it is to ruin a good song; no matter how its done, I always like "Ring Christmas Bells", and Manneheim Steamroller does a version of this song that makes it sound like the dead rising to life.
Joy to the World isn't exactly a Christmas song, and it shouldn't be confined to December. Its about the last days and eternity, when Christ returns and takes the world for His inheritance.
Brother Love said:
14 more Days!!!! Don't scare me like that! I've still got presents to make! I told myself a long time ago I'd finish all the presents early so I wouldn't be stuck frantically sewing and baking and what-all three days before Christmas...but here I am, at the end of another buying/making/wrapping season, working my bum off...
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