Comments on: Songs that exemplify the spirit of Christmas

By: Daniel J. Mount

Daniel J. Mount — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:50:33 +0000

Wow! You sure have come up with some great entries.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:27:17 +0000

I have to go with “Hand Of Sweet Release.”

There’s an end to all the waiting
There’s an answer to the who and where and why tonight
All the years anticipating
Are surrendered to a tiny baby’s cry
There’s a dawn to follow darkness
There’s a face to fill the title, “Prince of Peace”
What He promised, He delivered, I am saved
By the hand of sweet release

A world in turmoil, a sacrifice like none other, the answer to our salvation….is a tiny baby asleep on the hay. How awesome is that?!

By: Meagan Williams

Meagan Williams — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:25:04 +0000

Gaither Vocal Band – Reaching (written by Bill and Gloria Gaither)

His love went on longing
His love went on reaching
Right past the shackles of my mind
And the word of the Father
Became Mary’s little son
And His love reached all the way to where I was

This song just exemplifies to me, yet again, the wonder of the fact that God humbled himself to come in the form of an ordinary baby, to be the Savior of the world. He came for us and He reached out to us in the way he knew would get our attention. If He came as a baby, He knew they would have to take notice of it. They would have to love it, care for it, protect it, teach it, guide it, etc.

The lyric of the song is pretty short, but it’s message is profound. The God who came on that night so long ago, STILL COMES.

By: Brian Crout

Brian Crout — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:45:56 +0000

The Inspirations’ “The Wonder of Wonders”

The wonder of wonders, oh how could it be?
That God became flesh and was given for me.
The Almighty came down and walked among men.
The wonder of wonders, he died for my sin.

The verses are about Mary and the birth of Jesus.

By: Matt Baker

Matt Baker — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:30:05 +0000

The second verse of the old Steele’s song “Another Way Out” really points toward the manger and then to the cross. great song.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:27:26 +0000

I think the song by the Hinsons “Mercy Built A Bridge”( From the Album Generations, 1987) is a good one, I believe BFA has also recently done it.

” In a Lowly Cattle Stable In Bethlehem there where signs of new construction on a mighty span. That in the hearts of all the lost would cast a shadow of the cross, because that babe in Mary’s crib, would soon be Mercy’s Bridge”.

By: Amy Rogers

Amy Rogers — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:17:31 +0000

I wish!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, that album is on my wishlist!!

By: Daniel J. Mount

Daniel J. Mount — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:15:56 +0000

Amy, I’d forgotten I have two renditions of the song in my collection. Have you heard his orchestrated version, in 1994 on Serving a Risen Savior?

By: Daniel J. Mount

Daniel J. Mount — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:12:51 +0000

Wow – that’s neat!

I hadn’t thought of that song today, but now that you mention it, I’m going to definitely have to play it before the day is over.

By: Amy Rogers

Amy Rogers — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:10:38 +0000

This year I sang a “special” for the Christmas program with our pastor’s ~13-year-old daughter who just got saved a few months ago. I didn’t feel really inspired, so I asked her what she wanted to sing, and she had been listening to Gerald do “If That Isn’t Love,” so we sang,

He left the splendor of Heaven, knowing His destiny
Was the lonely hill called Golgotha, there to lay down His life for me.

If that isn’t love…

It was only her second time to sing a special – the first was with her dad a few weeks ago, and they sang “Consider the Lilies.” That was a wonderful service! (They think they don’t believe in SG, and I don’t tell them any different.) We pitched this song too low, and she had a hard time finding the melody, but I loved watching this sweet, tender young girl on her “first saved Christmas.” I remember my own …