Jingle Bells

My favorite Christmas CD since 1994

By Elizabeth Robertson Williams

Despite my mom's fierce campaigning "Merry Christmas" continues to morph into "Happy Holidays", but for whatever reason, most people are still very welcoming of most traditional Christmas carols.

Have you been listening to your "light fm" radio station, or even in restaurants and stores?  It's amazing the power and praise that is found within so many of the Christmas carols people have been enjoying for years.  You have Mariah Carey, Carrie Underwood, and even Riahnna all of a sudden all willing to sing about the birth of Christ.   

I love worship music, but I must confess, when it comes to Christmas songs (I'm talking the real ones...O Holy Night, Joy to the World, Angels We Have Heard On High, etc.) I'm not always quick to embrace and reflect on the true meaning.  

My goal this year as I'm shopping, driving, Christmas partying, decorating, and wrapping, is to actually pause and listen to Christmas songs this year.  There is so much Truth in these songs we've been hearing for years.  I pray it falls fresh on our ears this year!  

"This, This is Christ the King

Whom shepherds guard and angels sing

Haste, haste to bring him praise

The Babe, the Son of Mary"

"Joy to the world, the Lord is come!

Let earth receive her king;

Let every heart prepare Him room"

"A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices...
Fall on your knees!  Oh, hear the angel voices!
O night divine, the night when Christ was born."

Below are just a few of my favorites...and if you're interested in a great worship CD for Christmas here are two I love:
Christmas Worship Down Under, Hillsong
Glory in the Highest: Christmas Songs of Worship, Chris Tomlin