~NOEL

You'll find a helpful treatment of the word 'noel' here!

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Music corner ☺...

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About the songs I posted above...

*On Chris Tomlin's 2015 Christmas album, you'll find "The First Noel," along with an original song that is titled, "Noel."

*Lady Antebellum's cover of "The First Noel" is on their 2012 Christmas album.

*Check out Pentatonix's 2014 Christmas album for their version of the hymn.

*Hillsong Worship has included it on their new 2017 Christmas album.

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Other versions of the classic tune are below...

~ Kari Jobe did a pretty rendition on her 2007 Christmas album.

~ Also in 2007, Josh Groban and Faith Hill did a duet on his Christmas album.

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~CHRISTMAS READING SUGGESTION

Recently I picked up a book that I bought years ago at a local used bookstore, and I opened right to a section that really spoke to me about some things and was revelant to my present.

This was interesting to me, as I hadn't read the book yet because I had felt like God hadn't wanted me to read it yet, though maybe that was just me imagining things.

After reading a bit through it, I decided to look up its author on twitter, and in doing so, I came across a tweet by someone expressing their affection for a Christmas book she wrote.

I've posted it below and have added it to my future Advent reading list ☺.

Immanuel: A Daily Guide to Reclaiming Christmas

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"'God with us.'  When our sins made it impossible for us to come to him, God took the outrageous step of coming to us, of making himself susceptible to sorrow, familiar with temptation, and vulnerable to sin's disruptive power, in order to cancel its claim.  In Jesus we see how extreme God's love is." ~Ann Spangler

You'll find a handful of other quotes from this book here.

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*A confusing aspect of this title is that there seems to be more than one subtitle associated with it, the second one being, "Praying the Names of Jesus Through the Christmas Season" (see here, here, and here).  At first I thought this was the title of a second book by her but realized it is not.

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