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Welcome to a new week of the Daily Blade. So for the last couple of installments that I've done,

I was carrying on Jobi's theme of worship as war by exposing you to worship songs that fall outside

of the contemporary Christian music genre. So I did that to help you guys out. And from the comments

we've received, it has. I mean, I did those weeks because I know that many of you guys don't like the sound of contemporary Christian music,

but worshiping God through song is not optional.

So I wanted to expose you to music from genres that you might like that also have strong biblical and theological themes with them.

Now, I promise you guys that this isn't going to become you know the spiritual musical lyric connection podcast

but i'm actually going to keep this theme going because it's christmas this week guys and if you're

anything like me you grew up listening to christmas carols and many of you again like me saying

them without any regard for the theological or biblical significance being communicated in the lyrics.

So this week, we're going to look at five different Christmas carols that point us to the truth of Scripture and the incarnation of the Savior of the world.

And we're kicking off this week with one of the most famous Christmas carols of all time, O Holy Night.

So for the record, my favorite version of this song is from Josh Grobin from his Christmas album, Noel, from 2007.

So you should check that out.

This song was written in 1847 in France by a poet named a Placid Capot, and it was set to music by a composer named Adolf Adam.

Now, as a matter of history, it doesn't seem like Capot was a very devout or committed Christian,

but God certainly used him to write one of the most theologically rich carols of all time,

and, as I already said, one of the most popular.

And as with the rest of the Christmas carols, I will look at this week,

O Holy Night is a meditation on the incarnation.

So incarnation simply means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh. So Jesus's incarnation

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