Merry Christmas! Enjoy this beautiful video from the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Via: Kevin DeYoung
Christmas
The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue. —J.R.R. Tolkien
On the night Jesus was born something spectacular took place. The plains of Bethlehem became the theater for one of the most spectacular sound-and-light shows in human history. All heaven broke loose. Luke tells us what happened: And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An [...]
Sir Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and the Tenebrae choir performing For Unto Us A Child Is Born from Handel’s Messiah. Recorded in December 2006.
Sir Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and the Tenebrae choir performing the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah. Recorded in December 2006.
O God, take me in spirit to the watchful shepherds, and enlarge my mind; Let me hear good tidings of great joy, and hearing, believe, rejoice, praise, adore, my conscience bathed in an ocean of repose, my eyes uplifted to a reconciled Father; place me with ox, ass, camel, goat, to look with them upon [...]
Here’s another video of an impromptu performance of the Hallelujah Chorus – this time at a mall in Canada. Via: Tim Challies
Descend O Christ from heav’n on high, Thy glory set aside, Save us from death and darkness grim, And with Your seed abide. Veni, veni Domine, Thy people to redeem, Veni, veni Domine, fulfill our Christmas dream. The cradle crude all filled with straw Awaits Thy visit here, While shepherds gaze at glory’s light, Enrapt [...]
On the night Jesus was born something spectacular took place. The plains of Bethlehem became the theater for one of the most spectacular sound-and-light shows in human history. All heaven broke loose. Luke tells us what happened: And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An [...]
The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue. —J.R.R. Tolkien Via: Twitter