The Best Christmas Praise & Worship CD I’ve Ever Heard

Ryan Egan —  November 30, 2007 — 4 Comments

Tomorrow is December 1st.  Hopefully you’ve been planning for Christmas services already at your church and hopefully you’ve already incorporated some of the great classic hymns into your services (Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus; O Come, O Come, Emmanuel; Of the Father’s Love Begotten).

But what of the modern?  Where in the world is the depth that we’ve known in Christmas hymns yet repackacked in a modern style?  It’s all here, in “Savior: Celebrating the Mystery of God Become Man” from Sovereign Grace Music.

I know I’ve reviewed this before, but I can’t stress enough how amazing this project is.  Not only is the music singable, it somehow still feels like classic Chritmas music, even though it is a modern project.  And although it is all new music, the timeless truths communicated within are brought to life with fantastic new imagery and thoughtful lyrics.

The album opens with a triumphant call to worship in “Christ the Lord is Born Today:

Death and darkness surely tremble
Light has come to all the people
The Lion comes to crush the serpent
He comes a Lamb, a lowly servant
Let the earth rejoice
O come and lift your voices

From this beginning track, we know that the album will be full of the awe of beholding the newborn King and the triumph that King has brought to us through His death on the Cross.

Often it is hard to wrap our minds around the fact that God took human form to redeem us, and even though the project’s song “Glory Be To God” helps us begin to see that fact a little more clearly,  the song still keeps the God that became human who He ultimately is, a God who is infinitely more than we can imagine.

Emptied of His majesty
He comes in human form
Being’s source begins to be
and God is born
All our griefs He’ll glady share
All our sins He”ll fully bear
He will cover our disgrace
And suffer in our place

And finally, keeping with the theme of God’s incarnation, lyrics on “Sleep, Jesus, Sleep” that perhaps helps us see for the first time what “we do not have a High Priest who is unable sympathise with our weakness” really means:

Sleep, newborn King
We’ll gently sing
You who reigns forevermore
Ruling as the Lord of Lords
You who never had a need
Must sleep

This project paints a beautiful picture in a modern, yet classic way of the birth, life, death, resurrection and ultimate victory of Jesus Christ.

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Ryan is a follower of Christ, husband, father, worship leader, & creative. He is heavily involved in the Association of Free Lutheran Churches and desires to teach others to live a life of worship in everything they do.