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Your favorite Christmas song?
by sacolton 53 Replies latest jw friends
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stillajwexelder
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orangefatcat
My favourtie carol is "Come all ye Faithful", and Handel's Messiah. I am going to see John MacDermett this coming Tuesday.
I can hardly wait. I am sorry I don't know how to get You Tube to upload here.
Orangefatcat
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JimmyPage
I like so many of them.
Paul McCartney's "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time".
John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War is Over)".
Gary Hoey's shred guitar christmas albums ("Ho Ho Hoey").
But the song that has always stayed in my head, even when it's not the holidays, is "Jingle Bell Rock." Maybe because they made my P.E. class dance to that one every year. Wish I could have joined them.
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XJW4EVR
There is just something about Dee Snider singing O, Come All Ye Faithful, that says Christmas to me.
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Quandary
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6581236
My favorite Christmas music is Handel's Messiah.
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MegaDude
A beautiful jazzy version of Silent Night
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FuzzyPaul
I am heading up a Boy's choir and think that The Carol of the Bells is awesome. The George Winston piano solo version on December is remarkable. Teaching boys (with my 10 year old son in the group) The Carol of the Bells would be a tough challenge especially since I was not a Music major in College.
No X-mas trees for me - just Love for Jesus Christ. Christmas spreads the gospel and this I know - The Watchtower lies and says anything to cast a shadow of doubt over tradional Christianity. It is not something I explore casually. ANYthing with a prominent place in Christianity is thrown away by the Watchtower's religion.
The reason "Jehovah" is God in the Hebrew scriptures and is never named in the Greek scriptures AND verses quoting the Hebrew where "Jehovah" appears but applying them to JESUS shows that the Christian writers had recognized the Messiah as having the fullness of deity.
46 years as a JW and 2 years in the Baptist Church and I sound like a trinitarian.
Jesus had a Lord, Savior, God and Father - the one he called "Father." John 20:17 He - Jesus Christ is our Lord, God, Savior, and Father. John 1 and Isaiah 9. John 1:1 is translated wrongly by everyone because the logos was with "ton theon" which means "THE God" not "God". Strongs explains that it means "The Supreme Deity". Jesus is OUR God.
If one were to assume that Jesus is our God and allow contentious verses to be viewed from that perspective the New Testament makes better sense. Things don't have to be explained away when the obvious surface meaning fits the premise that Jesus is our God. Read John 10:31-38 at http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search= using the NIV or The New Living Translation, John 3:16 and 17:3 are seriously rewritten by the WT to mislead. Salvation is by Faith alone. Works can't save - only condemn. Compare every translation there and see.
The WT is a detractor of Christainity. Jesus did not wait until 1914 to be given authority. 1914 is bogus. Jesus got it all before he ascended including the family name of Yahweh.
Matthew 28:18 Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
John 17:11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one.
Christmas to ME is the time of year when attention is drawn to the Gospel of his birth and presentation at the Temple. It spreads the Gospel.
Jesus is a person with feelings. He is interested in us personally. He is not a computer progarm with true / false results. He wasn't a Pharasee with legalism as his agenda. Jesus is a real person who loves us , me, and you.
My prayers with you all.
Paul
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White Dove
Little Drummer Boy and Carol of the Bells.
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White Dove
I forgot to add to the list "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" with Karen Carpenter singing it. I've got to get it this year and try to hear it.