Fav Christmas Album EVER!!!
Wow! This cd has now become the pinnacle of Christmas albums within my holiday traditions. I like to consider myself a Christmas music expert, and this one takes the lead easily! I literally haven't been able to take it out of my cd player since I first got it.
Our worship band played "Angels We Have Heard On High" last week, and the congregational response in singing "GlORIA In EXCELSIS DEO" was SOOOO huge! God was so lifted high!
This week we are doing "My Soul Magnifies the Lord." This is probably my favorite song on the cd (besides "Winter Snow") It's just such a wonderful anthem with praises to God eminating from the soul.
"O Holy Night" gives me goosebumps EVERYTIME I listen to it! The arrangement is so simple yet soooooo powerful. It proves you don't have to mess with these songs to make them more powerful.
The thing I love about this album is that it takes Christmas Carols and puts them completely within a worship setting. So Chris' version of "O Come All Ye Faithful" is so much more worshipful than say...Nat King Coles (still a great version, but completely different setting).
I had the priviledge of seeing Chris in concert last night and it was sooooo amazing to sing these songs within a congregation! The band was tight as always, and chris sang the heck out of these songs. IF you have a chance to catch his "Glory in the Highest" tour....DO IT!!! It was soooooo powerful and a great way to center myself on what Christmas is....a baby being born in Bethlehem, who is the Savior of us all. wow!
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