It's CHRISTmas Eve--a time for reflection, family and praise for Christ. Since The Year of Faith over on my newsletter is just around the corner. (Be sure to subscribe to this blog for in 2014, I'll be back with a weekly column to educate and amaze!) I'm taking these last few weeks of 2013 to share some praise and worship with you. This video touches on one of my pet peeves about CHRISTmas time. There is very little Christ in CHRISTmas anymore. Most of the Christmas movies talk about it being all about family and love. A nice concept to be sure, but certainly not the focus of CHRISTmas. Some of the Christmas movie line up doesn't even talk about...
DATELINE ART OF ELOQUENCE!.....BREAKING NEWS! The new year is fast approaching and I have a lot of changes planned. Here are the headlines: ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ 2013 Video Countdown to CHRISTmas ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ I know many of you look forward to my Video Countdown to CHRISTmas every year here on the Art of Eloquence blog. I've been doing it for about four years now. However, since starting my daily JoJoisms blog a few months back, I've decided to host the countdown on that blog instead. It fits the theme better anyway and that blog is already daily where this one is weekly. The Video Countdown to CHRISTmas began, as usual, on December 1st and will end on December 25th. Also you can subscribe...
I love this song! I share it with you on CHRISTmas because CHRISTmas isn't about Santa or family or presents, but it's also not just about baby Jesus or the wise men or the manger. It's about our sin, it's about God's love, it's about the blood that Jesus shed for us. More than the beginning of the story, it's about the cross. It's the ending to the story on Resurrection Sunday that saves us. CHRISTmas is only the beginning of Jesus' story. He wasn't just born for us, but He lived with us and died for us. That's the love of our Lord and Savoir. I pray you have had a blessed time this past month leading up to...
Making it's second appearance here on the AoE video countdown to CHRISTmas is this very spiritual version of Carol of the Bells.
It's by 2002 Music and from the album CHRISTmas Dreams.
The thing that struck me about this video is the snow. It's shown in many forms, all beautiful. It reminds me about how different each snowflake is and how different each person is. When it shows the entire world, it reminds me that Christ died not only for me or for those who love Him, but for all of mankind.
Still more to come. Until tomorrow...
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For the fourth year here on the AoE Countdown to CHRISTmas is an instrumental version (piano) of Carol of The Bells by George Winston. I love the scenes depicted in the video and his version of this song is simply gorgeous. I could listen to this for hours. I love the way it changes throughout the piece and comes round again. It's a more creative version than I've heard. We all need to slow down about this time of year, just about ten days out from CHRISTmas to listen to the sounds of CHRISTMas and remember the beauty of what Jesus did. I'll have another great video tomorrow. Until then... ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ If you liked this post, read…Seven Reasons Why YOU...
