Tag: Christmas 2020

A Gift from Me to You

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This song, My Love’s an Arbutus, I like to post every year at Christmas-time as a small token of thanks to all of you, my readers, for your support throughout the year. If this beautiful melody seems familiar, you’ve probably heard it as part of the music soundtrack for Scrooge, the classic film treatment of A Christmas Carol, starring Alistair Sim. Anyway, it’s lovely, it’s soothing, and I hope you enjoy it.

A Personal Note: The conviction is strongly growing on me that all we have to do is not give up, keep piling up the evidence and shoving it under people’s noses: and that if we do that, we will win: the theft of the 2020 presidential election will fail, and our republic will be saved.

All we have to do is not give up. The truth is on our side. We can pray to a righteous God, the judge of all the earth; but the prayers of leftids are only an abomination. The evidence of massive election fraud is already heaped up as high as the sky–with more to come!

I don’t think President Trump will give up and hand our country over to Red China. We must let him know that we’re with him all the way: we will not tolerate any election fraud. Not any. We will not accept China Joe as our president, and his rogues’ gallery of commie burnouts as his cabinet.

Work. Pray. Tell the truth. And don’t give up.

With God’s help we will win this thing.

By Mark Rushdoony: ‘Be Encouraged!’

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The Astronomy Behind The Star Of Bethlehem : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR

Mark Rushdoony has an answer for those who look at the state of the world, despair of the gospel, and say “Just look around you.”

https://chalcedon.edu/blog/be-encouraged

All right: look. “Yet what do we see each Christmas? The world must stop and recognize the impact of Jesus Christ on history.”

It’s a short little essay, brief but to the point. For me to say more would spoil it.

‘We Three Kings’

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Ach! No entries yet today in our Christmas Carol Contest. I must provide a carol.

So here’s one to get the ball rolling: We Three Kings of Orient Are, sung by the Robert Shaw Chorale.

If you haven’t entered yet, now is as good a time as any. The contest closes Dec. 31.

‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’

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We can’t let Christmas come or go without posting this, one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by the New London Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting, and the Norman Luboff Choir.

By Request, ‘What Child Is This’ (Fernando Ortega)

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We had to go to six different stores this morning, stocking up for Christmas Week, and I’m afraid it wore me out and frazzled my nerves. But I’m back now, we got everything we needed–and this hymn, requested by Joshua, was just the ticket! Thank you, Joshua–I’m sure I’m not the only one who will love this.

What Child Is This, sung by Fernando Ortega… Thanks, we needed that.

By Request, ‘Jesus, Oh, What a Wonderful Child’

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Racing the clock, but at least I’ll have posted these hymn requests.

This one’s from SlimJim–Jesus, Oh, What a Wonderful Child, sung by The Martins.

One more thing to check, and then I’m out the door.

By Request, ‘Oh Holy Night’ (Celine Dion)

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I have to be in four or five different places this morning, at pretty much the same time, but let me at least post these hymn requests so they can be entered in the carol contest.

Requested by Carla Fullerton (welcome aboard, Carla)–Oh Holy Night, sung by Celine Dion.

By Request, ‘The Little Drummer Boy’

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“Thewhiterabbit” asked for this one, The Little Drummer Boy–and how could we go wrong with Bing Crosby?

My Cyber-Christmas Party

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Victorian Christmas II | Thomas Kinkade Studios | Thomas kinkade paintings, Thomas kinkade art, Kinkade paintings

If you, like me, are used to family gatherings for Christmas–but most of your family, like mine, has either died off or moved far away–you can wind up feeling a little lonely. I don’t know what to do about that, other than to resort to the imagination.

And so this lovely house that you see in the Thomas Kinkade painting above is now my house, for the time being; and it’s open to all of you for a Christmas celebration–with carol-singing, some virtuoso on my new harpsichord, beer from the finest micro-breweries, and the best Christmas sermons and prayers that we can find on video. We have to celebrate: Jesus Christ is born!

We’ll play games, too.

So come on over! The gates of the imagination are always open. We’ll post your comments and your hymn requests–wouldn’t it be a blast, these next few days leading to Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, to hear from… well, everybody? Sharing Christmas cheer, greetings, and best wishes.

We’ll try to post a photo of our Christmas tree, after we put it up and trim it; but if our technology isn’t up to the challenge, there’s still the imagination.

And the real stuff of Christmas, the parts that really matter–we don’t have to imagine those, do we?

Bonus Carol: ‘Silent Night’

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Hey! Let’s do Christmas for all we’re worth! Sing it, shout it, proclaim it: Christ the Savior is born, He whose right it is to rule, He’ll break the heathen with a rod of iron–and we are saved!

Come on, more carols–the villains hate to hear it. Demons flee from His face. God sets ’em up and sets ’em down. And we are saved!

So here’s another Christmas carol–Silent Night, sung by Alan Jackson.