O Holy Night

The Christmas carols we know by heart can become part of the seasonal background. Yet many of them contain rich theology, hard-won faith and language shaped by suffering, injustice and longing.

O Holy Night listens again to five of those songs. Through reflections on carols including O Holy Night, Hark! the Herald Angels Sing, In the Bleak Midwinter, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day and O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, the booklet considers what their words reveal about the incarnation, redemption, human dignity, suffering, peace and the promised renewal of all things. Their histories matter too: some were written into grief or social upheaval, which gives familiar lines a weight that gets missed when we hear them in shops or sing them once a year.

Each reflection is accompanied by Scripture, questions and prayer, giving you the chance to hear these songs less as Christmas ambience and more as expressions of faith conviction.

Download your free copy and let the music of Christmas lead you further into the King it celebrates.

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