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		<title>Day 25: Joy to the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 10:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joy to the world! the Lord is come; Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare him room, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing. For me, it&#8217;s the ultimate Christmas hymn. And I&#8217;m not alone. As of the late 20th century, this was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1553&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 24: O Come, All Ye Faithful</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my earlier days as a pastor, I chose the hymns to be sung for each worship service. I could easily spend hours each week reading texts and reviewing tunes so that the three hymns fit as well as possible thematically and emotionally with the sermon. And in those days, today’s hymn was always the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1542&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 23: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s carol was first written as a poem by Edmund Sears, in 1849, at the request of his friend, William Parsons Lunt, who was pastor of the United First Parish Church in Quincy, Massachusetts. Its first public appearance was in the Christian Register in Boston on December 29, 1849. A year later, the accompanying tune [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1535&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 22: Do You Hear What I Hear?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only around since 1962, this Christmas song has been recorded by hundreds of artists. Not actually a hymn or carol, and not overtly theological, I immediately found myself relating the lyrics to Psalm 148. Both the song and the Word involve the praise of God by all creation &#8211; from critters to celestial bodies &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1527&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 21: Angels We Have Heard on High</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first glance, this Christmas carol doesn’t appear to have a whole lot of theological depth. It’s just a re-telling of the events of the nativity in four stanzas. In fact, this old French carol doesn’t even have a known author; it’s anonymous. And yet&#8230; And yet, in the refrain that follows each of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1520&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 20: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Part 3 of 3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the only hymn or carol that will get three entries. It’s not that there aren’t great texts in the others &#8211; as we’ve clearly seen, there are! But this hymn is so rich in the weaving together of nativity and passion, song and scripture, that I really wanted each stanza to receive its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1509&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 19: Hallelujah Chorus</title>
		<link>http://midweekjolt.me/2011/12/19/day-19-hallelujah-chorus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Messiah is an oratorio composed in 1741 by George Friedrich Handel, using texts from the King James Version of the English Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. It was first performed on April 13, 1742 in Dublin, and premiered in London the following year. While not overwhelmingly received initially, this oratorio has gone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1490&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 18: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s carol is perhaps the most personal and heartfelt of any I know. I have always loved listening to its powerful message. During the Civil War, Charles Appleton Longfellow joined the cause as a Union soldier, without the blessing of his father, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In November of 1863, Charles was severely wounded in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1478&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 17: What Child is This?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, on Day 17, I had to review which carols I had and hadn’t covered. To my surprise, I had not yet written about today’s carol: What Child is This. A very popular and well-known song, it was written in 1865 by English writer, William Chatterton Dix, following a sudden near-fatal illness. The illness confined [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1470&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 16: I Wonder As I Wander</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s carol hasn’t been around long, less than a century. But it’s a great little song. There are three stanzas in the original, but I just want to focus on the first one. Back in July 1933, John Jacob Niles was in Murphy, North Carolina and encountered a traveling evangelist named Annie Morgan. He met [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1458&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 15: Away in a Manger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If asked which Christmas carol I would choose as the favorite of children, I would have to say, Away in a Manger. Not sure why, but every time I hear it, I think of kids, and of my having moved on to more “mature” carols. Away in a manger, no crib for a bed, The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1444&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 14: Good King Wenceslas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good King Wenceslas looked out on the Feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even; Brightly shone the moon that night, though the frost was cruel When a poor man came in sight, gathering winter fuel.  This is more a carol than a hymn, and a strange one at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1432&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 13: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Part 2 of 3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I gave you fair warning when I covered the first stanza of this hymn on December 3. This has got to be the most theologically rich of all the best-loved hymns of Christmas. Which, again, is why I need to cover each of the four stanzas. Sunday, I simply posted a hymn from the New [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1424&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 12: Go Tell It On The Mountain</title>
		<link>http://midweekjolt.me/2011/12/12/day-12-go-tell-it-on-the-mountain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been listening to James Taylor for a very long time. I can&#8217;t say I know a lot about him, but I do love his music. Now and then he writes a song that has lyrics which &#8211; at least to me &#8211; have inherent Christian meaning, but I  can&#8217;t say I &#8216;ve ever known [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1410&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 11: Christ is Supreme</title>
		<link>http://midweekjolt.me/2011/12/11/day-11-christ-is-supreme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Colossians1, Paul quotes one of the earliest Christian hymns to remind us just who we find in the manger at Christmas: Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1406&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 10: Some Children See Him</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s carol was not familiar to me as a kid. I suppose it’s because it was only ten years old when I was born. It wasn’t until I sang it in a Christmas choral event that I really became familiar with it. Since then, It has become one of my favorites. A part of me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1394&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 9: Silent Night</title>
		<link>http://midweekjolt.me/2011/12/09/day-9-silent-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, since I sorta dissed Silent Night yesterday, I thought I’d highlight it today. Because while it’s doubtful that the night of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem was all that quiet, this carol stands head and shoulders above maybe every other. Some claim it is the most famous carol of all time. I’m not gonna argue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1384&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 8: In the Bleak Midwinter</title>
		<link>http://midweekjolt.me/2011/12/08/day-8-in-the-bleak-midwinter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I’ve been digging into hymns and carols for these blog posts, I’ve become more acutely aware of lyrics that are likely inaccurate, historically. Like Silent Night, for example. Was the night of Jesus’ birth really that quiet? Wasn’t the little town of Bethlehem swollen more than ever before with people who had returned home [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1367&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 7: God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen</title>
		<link>http://midweekjolt.me/2011/12/07/day-7-god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas can bring so many frustrations and concerns. What gifts do I buy? Will all my family interactions go well? Do I say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays? How will I afford everything? It’s no wonder this time of year brings so much anxiety and depression. Of course, we all know it shouldn’t be this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1358&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 6: Lo, How a Rose E&#8217;er Blooming</title>
		<link>http://midweekjolt.me/2011/12/06/day-6-lo-how-a-rose-eer-blooming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one doesn&#8217;t make the all-time list of favorite hymns or carols. In fact, I own a ton of Christmas albums, but only one of them includes this hymn. If it&#8217;s unfamiliar to you, click HERE to listen to the melody. Originating in Germany in the 16th century in the Catholic church, and including as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midweekjolt.me&amp;blog=7568305&amp;post=1344&amp;subd=midweekjolt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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