Title: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen! (2 of 4)
Series: Heaven & Nature Sing
Author: Tim Badal
Text: Jude 24-25
Turn in your Bibles to the book of Jude this morning. We're continuing our series titled "Heaven & Nature Sing," looking at our Christmas playlist. We're looking at some songs we sing during the Christmas season, investigating them in order to understand why they were written and what their words really mean. Hopefully, this will bring greater substance and meaning to our celebration of Christmas.
Let's face it. The Christmas celebration, unlike any other holiday we have on our calendar, is all about music. We don't have specific music, for the most part, for Valentine's Day, St. Patty's Day, Flag Day, Veterans Day, Halloween or Thanksgiving. But when Christmas comes around the music starts to play.
I saw this firsthand this past week. We were catering a luncheon at a huge distribution center where there were hundreds upon hundreds of employees. The room probably seated about 300 people and it was full. They were busy eating, yet there was nothing special about what was going on in the moment.
Then my eye caught sight of this lady with the Christmas spirit. She was dressed to the Christmas nines. She had a big Santa hat on with a big sleigh bell ornament on the end of it. Everywhere she went, that bell was jingling and she was exuding Christmas. She walked into the lunchroom and looked around, but I could tell she was unhappy with what she saw.
The people weren't very festive. This was a holiday party. They brought in a caterer. It should have been festive. She said, "There's no music! Where's the music?" Then she did the unthinkable. She started belting out "Joy to the World" in front of 250-300 people.
I remember thinking, "Oh boy, this is not going to be good." But wouldn't you know it? By the time she was done with the first line, the vast majority of the people in that room joined in singing "Joy to the World." It was awes ...
Series: Heaven & Nature Sing
Author: Tim Badal
Text: Jude 24-25
Turn in your Bibles to the book of Jude this morning. We're continuing our series titled "Heaven & Nature Sing," looking at our Christmas playlist. We're looking at some songs we sing during the Christmas season, investigating them in order to understand why they were written and what their words really mean. Hopefully, this will bring greater substance and meaning to our celebration of Christmas.
Let's face it. The Christmas celebration, unlike any other holiday we have on our calendar, is all about music. We don't have specific music, for the most part, for Valentine's Day, St. Patty's Day, Flag Day, Veterans Day, Halloween or Thanksgiving. But when Christmas comes around the music starts to play.
I saw this firsthand this past week. We were catering a luncheon at a huge distribution center where there were hundreds upon hundreds of employees. The room probably seated about 300 people and it was full. They were busy eating, yet there was nothing special about what was going on in the moment.
Then my eye caught sight of this lady with the Christmas spirit. She was dressed to the Christmas nines. She had a big Santa hat on with a big sleigh bell ornament on the end of it. Everywhere she went, that bell was jingling and she was exuding Christmas. She walked into the lunchroom and looked around, but I could tell she was unhappy with what she saw.
The people weren't very festive. This was a holiday party. They brought in a caterer. It should have been festive. She said, "There's no music! Where's the music?" Then she did the unthinkable. She started belting out "Joy to the World" in front of 250-300 people.
I remember thinking, "Oh boy, this is not going to be good." But wouldn't you know it? By the time she was done with the first line, the vast majority of the people in that room joined in singing "Joy to the World." It was awes ...
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