Today is the third Sunday of Advent! We light the third candle, the candle of LOVE. John 3:16 tells us that God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that whoever believes in Him will not perish, but will have have eternal life. Love is the heart of Christmas!
In comments, let me know what your favorite Christmas carol is. Mine is One Small Child. If you’re not familiar with it, look it up!
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Valerie Comer is a USA Today bestselling author and a two-time Word Award winner who writes where food meets faith and fiction. She injects experience laced with humor into her green clean romances. Her life on a small farm in western Canada provides the seed for stories of contemporary inspirational romance. Like many of her characters, Valerie and her family grow much of their own food and are active in the local foods movement as well as their church. She only hopes her creations enjoy their happily-ever-afters as much as she does hers, shared with her husband, adult kids, and adorable granddaughters.
My favourite carol changes. I still love O Holy NIght, but I love the Casting Crowns version of I heard the Bells on Christmas day. I also love “It’s all about the Cross” by the Ball Brothers.
Hi Valerie, hope you have had a great weekend. School has finished for the year, now to catch up on cleaning up around the house and playing loads of games with the boys:)
One Small Child is new to me, will go and listen to it. I am loving for King and Country’s Christmas album, especially the song Glorious. A lasting favourite is Carol of the Birds, an Aussie take on a Christmas carol.
Blessings:)
It’s hard to choose just one… I really like “Leise rieselt der Schnee“ (don’t know the name in English, would be something like the snow is falling slowly) which is kind of fun because we don’t have snow where I live.
Also some of other favorites are O Holy Night and While you were sleeping.
Hi Laura! I am German, was born in Berlin, and have a degree as a German teacher. In SW Michigan the snow has been quietly (lease) falling, therefore I have been singing “Leise rieselt der Schnee,” a German carol without an English translation. Where did you learn this German carol. First verse roughly translated: Quietly falls the snow. Still and stark lies the sea. Christmas glistens the woods. Be joyful Christmas is coming soon.” A fitting song for the third Advent.
Hi Valerie! Thanks for the Advent posts, my favorite part of the Christmas season. This year one of my favorite carols is “Mary Did You Know” as sung by Pentatonix. My all time favorite carol is “Stille Nacht” or “Silent Night.” A carol with a rich history. The carol written by a determined priest to have Christmas Eve music. A carol translated in to many language. I have heard it sung in about 20 different languages on Christmas Eve. A carol that offered hope in 1914, during WW1 (the movie Joyeux Noel chronicles this story). Merry Christmas.
My favorite classic is O Holy Night, and the newer song I like is Mary Did You Know!
I love Still, Still, Still (which I only really know in German, but I do know what I’m singing ;) ) -its one my grandmother taught me (she grew up speaking German in her home). I also love I Wonder as I Wander and Break Forth O Beautiful Heavenly Light. None of which ever get much play at church but that’s why I own a hymnal of my own :)
I don’t have a favorite, but as I was reading this I was humming “I’ll be Home for Christmas.” There are few Christmas songs I don’t like. It really depends on my mood. Merry Christmas, Valerie!
I’ve got lots of favorites! What Child is This, Mary Did You Know, We 3 Kings, etc., etc.
O Holy Night and What Child is This are two of my favorites.
I hadn’t heard that one before. Just enjoyed it :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYSJj-EHAAk
“Glorious” was new to me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU2g0Sv_Hdw
And I enjoyed Carol of the Birds, too! Not sure if this is an approved version. ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1PuZk6VBr4
I don’t remember the words from my childhood, but the music is very familiar. Enjoyed this version this afternoon! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNgteoy0UZs
I grew up in a Mennonite home, where Low German was spoken but High German was read and sung. Stille Nacht is one of the few carols I remember singing in German as a child.
O Holy Night is SO majestic! It is definitely one of my favorites, too.
I checked out this version of Still, Still, Still. Pretty sure I haven’t heard it before! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpRq4i-XMmk
This is the version of Break Forth I found. Lovely! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA7dL36cP1A
It depends on my mood, too, but One Small Child is always a favorite of mine! Merry Christmas to you, too. :)
I love all those as well!
Oh, yes! Mine, too.
My favorite is “Mary, did you know?” written by Mark Lowery. Touches my heart every time I hear it or sing it.
Hi Renate! My grandparents sang at a “German choir” and they sang this song there. We took a copy of all their songs and still song it at home in the advent. We also have a LP with German Christmas Carols which I still listen to!
It’s quite funny because there’s no snow here in Brazil and we are almost melting here in summer, yet I insist on singing this song as it is my favorite. A couple of years ago we spent Christmas in the US and it begun snowing on Christmas Eve and I was finally able to sing the song when there was snow! I had a blast!
We have a translation for this song to portuguese, but the lyrics are not as meaningful as in German.
My favorites are We Three Kings (I don’t know that I’ve come across a version that I really didn’t care for) and O Holy Night, which is so majestic.
I have many favorite carols, but an old one I really like is O Come, O Come Emmanuel. We were on the road during most of this week, so I missed all of these posts. It’s good to be home for Christmas!