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Thanks for listening and thanks for your support at the end of 2023. 23. Christmas hymns for Christmas are well known in the culture, they're well known in the church.

And then there are these hidden gems like the one we're going to be looking at on this Christmas day.

All my heart again rejoices.

Greetings and Merry Christmas on this Christmas day.

I'm Todd Wilkin, you're connected to issues etc here in the

first hour. We are going to be studying the Christmas hymn. All my heart again

rejoices with Dr Arthur Just. Then we'll replay a teaching on the Christmas season

with Pastor Will Wheaton of the word of the Lord. will The Logical Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and author of the two volume Concordia commentary on Luke

in the book, Heaven on Earth, The Gifts of Christ

in the Divine Service.

Dr. Jess, welcome back.

Wonderful to be with you in this Christmas season.

Why is this tremendous Christmas hymn not more well known?

Well in a way it's not a Carol, it's a Him, and what I mean by that is it's a Him that really does kind of dive into the theological meaning of Christmas.

It doesn't really tell the story. the theological meaning of Christmas.

It doesn't really tell the story of Luke 2 or Matthew.

One, it really in a sense deals with the why of Christmas and what does Christmas really mean and it's really

about the meaning of the incarnation for us it's a very deep him and what I mean by deep is it really takes us into the very essence of our faith.

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