Requested by Phoebe: Away in a Manger. I think this was the first Christmas carol I learned, and it has never failed to move me.
Sung here by John Denver (couldn’t find it be Pavarotti)/
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‘Away in a Manger’ (British Melody)
Well, no hymn requests, no Christmas carols, this morning–not yet. Let me treat you to Away in a Manger, played by our dear friends and colleagues, Joshua and Jeremy.
And so “Anonymous,” aka “Someone,” is still leading in our annual Christmas Carol Contest. How the heck can I award a prize to “Someone”?
Sure we can do more than 22 views…
By Request, ‘Away in a Manger’
Hooray! We’ve got Christmas carols today!
Requested by Phoebe, sung by Alan Jackson: Away in a Manger. Oh, this brings me back! To very early childhood, in fact. But that’s one of those things that Christmas does so well… Thank you, Lord.
By Request, ‘Away in a Manger’
Requested by Erlene, entered into the carol contest: Away in a Manger, sung by Carrie Underwood.
I think this was the first Christmas carol I learned. Seventy-some years later, it was the power to move me to tears.
Yes, we have a Savior.
By Request, ‘Away in a Manger’ (UK)
Requested by SlimJim, Away in a Manger–and I hope he doesn’t mind that this time I opted for the British melody that goes with that carol. There’s an American melody, too, and they’re equally lovely. Sung by the Kings College Choir… in England.
By Request, ‘Away in a Manger’
Do you feel it yet–the Christmas spirit? You know, I think I do! My soul is drinking in these carols.
Requested by Erlene–Away in a Manger, sung by Nat King Cole. This is the carol’s American melody. Next time I post it, I’ll use the British melody.
Come on, now, don’t be shy! There’s room in this contest for everybody.
By Request, ‘Away in a Manger’
We have this Christmas hymn request from Susan–Away in a Manger, sung by 9-year-old Claire Crosby.
The melody she sings to is more common in Britain than in America. I keep running into that. I guess if I want to find the American melody, I’ll have to hunt for it.
By Request, ‘Away in a Manger’
This was the first Christmas hymn I learned to sing. At the time I didn’t know what some of the words meant. Cattle were “lowing”? Morning is “nigh”? But I had no trouble at all understanding the meaning.
Requested by Thewhiterabbit: Away in a Manger, sung by Alan Jackson.
By Request, ‘Away in a Manger’
Here it is, the first entry in our Christmas Carol Contest! Requested by Erlene, Away in a Manger. This rendition is sung by Alan Jackson.
What a flood of sweet memories this hymn invokes! Some of the very earliest memories I have, in fact.
If we ever needed Christmas, we need it now, in 2020.
Demoting Jesus Christ
Complete the sentence, if you can. “I send my children to public schools to be educated by Far Left Crazy dimwits because _________.”
For the latest example, we cross the Atlantic to a school in London where the headmaster, in order to make things more “inclusive,” has changed the lyrics of Away in a Manger, in the school’s Christmas pageant, to strip away the Lordship of Jesus Christ (https://www.foxnews.com/world/london-parents-upset-after-school-changes-lyrics-to-christmas-carol-to-be-more-inclusive).
So the kids can’t sing “Lord Jesus.” It can only be “little baby Jesus.” To make it more inclusive. So as not to express any Christian content to Muslims, Hindus, atheists, or people who worship trapdoor spiders.
But if Jesus is only a little baby, and not Lord of anything, then what the dickens are we celebrating? The birth of a nice guy? If Jesus is not the Christ, if He is not the Lord of lords and King of kings, then why do Christmas at all? As C.S. Lewis explained, if Christ is not who and what He says He is, then He is either a liar or a lunatic. And why should such a one be celebrated?
The more “inclusive” you try to make something, the more you thin it out–until whatever meaning it had has been diluted out of existence.
The nooze story quotes some angry parents, but apparently they’re not angry enough so that school big shots need have any fear of them.
But that’s how public servants become the masters of the public: when they lose their fear of the people.