Scripture verse: Luke 1:26 Mary's Boy Child is a 1956 Christmas song, written by Jester Hairston. Hairston wrote...
Miscellaneous Musings
Pessimist, Realist or Optimist?
And here’s another truth: Most people fall somewhere between those two extremes, wanting to be the latter, sometimes falling into the former. And most people are weak, on either extreme. Judas: weak. Peter: weak. Strength is found in what we do once we figure out we’re weak. And character is shown when we choose to do the right thing even though we’re weak. Judas: characterless. Peter: characterful.
What are we to do with that?
Silent Night
O Holy Night (Cantique de Noël)
Go Tell It On The Mountain
Scripture verse: Mark 16:15 Go Tell It on the Mountain is an African-American spiritual, whose original writer is lost...
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
Scripture verse: Genesis 26:4 It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (1849) is a poem and Christmas carol written by Edmund...
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Scripture verse: Matthew 2:10 Do You Hear What I Hear? was written by Noël Regney with music by Gloria Shayne...
In Dulci Jubilo
Scripture verse: Philippians 4:4 In Dulci Jubilo (In Sweet Rejoicing) is a macaronic text of German and Latin dating...
Mary Did You Know?
Scripture verse: Revelation 12:5 Mary, Did You Know? is a Christmas carol written by Mark Lowry and Buddy Greene. The...
Still, Still, Still
Scripture verse: Psalm 132: 4-5 Still, Still, Still is an Austrian Christmas carol and lullaby. In German its first...
What Child Is This
Scripture verse: Isaiah 7:14 What Child Is This? Was written by William Chatterton Dix, in 1865. While recovering from...
Ave Maria
Scripture verse: Luke 1: 28-45 Ave Maria is from the Latin text Ave Maria, published in 1853 as Méditation sur...
Angels We Have Heard On High
Scripture verse: Luke 2:13-14 Angels We Have Heard on High is of French origin, but its writers are lost to history....
The Huron Carol
Scripture verse: Matthew 28:19 The Huron Carol, also known as Twas in the Moon of Wintertime, is a Canada's oldest...
Joy To The World
Scripture verse: Psalm 98: 4-9 English hymn writer Isaac Watts, wrote Joy To The World. The song was intended to...