If you are like myself you most likely grew up singing the same 8 to 10 "Christmas Hymns" each year over and over again, .....of which many do have excellent texts. However, what I was not aware of is that there are a great number of Christmas Hymns out there that for one reason or another have not made it into the average hymnbook over the past 50 to 100 years. In fact, there are tons of good hymns out there that just aren't being used ........with rich biblical texts full of sound theology. Hymns from which you can really be thought good doctrine. Texts that take you on a good journey and point out the glory of God.
With this in view I would like to take a few posts to share some of my favorite "new" Christmas Hymns. However, this first selection is not one of those but one of the more familiar standards that happens to be my all time favorite Christmas Hymn. Try and read it without singing it like a poem you have never read. The theology is amazing. Enjoy!
Hark! the herald angels sing,"Glory to the new born King,
peace on earth, and mercy mild,God and sinners reconciled!
"Joyful, all ye nations rise,join the triumph of the skies;
with th' angelic host proclaim,"Christ is born in Bethlehem!
"Hark! the herald angels sing,"Glory to the new born King!
"Christ, by highest heaven adored;Christ, the everlasting Lord;
late in time behold him come,offspring of a virgin's womb.
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;hail th' incarnate Deity,
pleased as man with man to dwell,Jesus, our Emmanuel.
Hark! the herald angels sing,"Glory to the new born King!
"Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace!Hail the Son of Righteousness!
Light and life to all he brings,risen with healing in his wings.
Mild he lays his glory by,born that man no more may die,
born to raise the sons of earth,born to give us second birth.
Hark! the herald angels sing,"Glory to the new born King!"
Charles Wesley
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