Every Christmas season is filled with music. Here are some selections from a Christmas cantata that I wrote 40 years ago. I hope these songs of Christmas will remind us all of the greatest gift God has given us for the greatest need we have: the forgiveness of our sins. 

Merry Christmas 

The Song of Jesus:

He left His throne in paradise to come to earth for me

He left the praise of ten thousand angels to dwell in old Galilee

He left the beauty of golden streets, and He left the right hand of God

And He sacrificed the honor He had known, upon this earth to trod

He left is all, yes, and willingly, in a stable to be born

He set aside for swaddling clothes, the robes that He had worn

He who alone was equal to God cast it all aside for me

And humbled Himself to a lowly birth to my Savior be 

The Promised One:

The earth was filled with dying, and suffering from the fall

But the promised coming Messiah would offer hope and life to all.

The sign of God was declared; to Isaiah the prophet was given

That a child would be born of a virgin and be the Son of God in heaven

From the fruit of Eden’s fate came the promise God had given

His seed shall surely bruise your heel, but your seed shall crush his head

The sign of God was declared; to Isaiah the prophet was given

That a child would be born of a virgin and be the Son of God in heaven

And now the hope of the faithful, the salvation of Adam’s race

The promised coming Messiah to offer mankind God’s grace

The sign of God was declared; to Isaiah the prophet was given

That a child would be born of a virgin and be the Son of God in heaven

Star Song:

And now the moment had arrived

The hope of all man’s yearning

For high up in the eastern sky

A new bright star was shining

(From the Cantata: “Hope is Born” by David Craig, © 1975: renewed 2013; from the book “Exclamations of Praise” © 

2013)