Christmas #9 - O Christmas Tree - Christmas Day - December 25, 2023 Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree! Merry Christmas! Did you find some things under your Christmas Tree this morning? This is my miniature Christmas Tree that I often take with me when I travel at Christmas time. I bought this about 20 ...
Christmas #8 - Top Ten Christmas Carols - Part 4 - Sunday, December 24, 2023 What tops the list of the top ten Christmas Carols? #1. "Silent Night" tops the list of the Top Ten Christmas Carols. In the number one spot is the Christmas carol "Silent Night". This carol was composed by Franz Xaver ...
Christmas #7 - Top Ten Christmas Carols - Part 3 - Saturday, December 23, 2023 In parts 1 and 2, I list the carols that placed 10th to 5th. In part 3 we will discover which carols placed 4th, 3rd, and 2nd on the Top Ten Christmas Carols list. #4. "The First Noel" is in ...
Christmas #6 - Top Ten Christmas Carols - Part 2 - Friday, December 22, 2023 In part 1, I told you about the three carols that made the 10th, 9th and 8th places. In this post I will share the next three on the list. #7. "O Holy Night" is in seventh place on the ...
Here is a list of the top ten Christmas Carols. Many of these carols I have played on the handbells this Christmas Season. Let's start with 10th place: #10. The tenth carol to make the list of the Top Ten Christmas Carols is "We Wish You a Merry Christmas". The song "We Wish You a ...
Music at Christmas Time is pretty special to me. I love Christmas Carols. We sing Christmas carols because they are a way of telling the story of the nativity and the birth of Jesus. While explaining what happened around Jesus' birth, the carols also help us express the joy and awe-inspiring scenes of the nativity. ...
What does a train have to do with Christmas? My picture for today is another homemade project that I set out as part of my Christmas decorations. What does a train have to do with Christmas? Did you know that the first regularly scheduled steam locomotive passenger train in the US was started on Christmas ...
Advent Calendars - Counting the Days Until Christmas Advent calendars start on December 1 and end on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. You open the door number one first. The point of the calendar is not to count down, but rather to count up towards the days before Christmas. In 1839 Johann Hinrich Wichern, a ...
Advent - Hope, Joy, Peace and Love Today is the third Sunday of Advent. Advent, from the Latin adventus meaning coming, is a four week period of preparation for the celebration of the birth of Jesus at Christmas. Advent is about the good news that God loves His creation and sent His son, Jesus, to ...
We Wish You a Merry Christmas  "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is a traditional English carol. It is believed to have originated in the West Country of England in the 16th century. Carolers going door to door to spread some holiday cheer likely sang this song. In the song the carolers are asking the ...
