I like getting passionate about things I like. I really like any fiery about things I don't like.

So here's the top three least favorite Christmas songs. Number one. I'm my name is Father Mike

Schmitz and this is Ascentra Presents and this is a Christmas coat. We're going to start with the good

Christmas songs. Number one, not a Christmas song, but just an Advent song. It's called Okummo Come

Comey Manuel. And there are three versions that are amazing,

insane, ridiculous, insinulous. I love almost every version. Number one, counting,

I was saying counting crows. No, casting crowns. Casting crowns, Ocumoncombe Emanuel. It's just

like cello violin. It is so good. Number two, Stephen Curtis Chapman, Ocombe, Emmanuel. You guys, it's a little

new rendition of it. So, so good. And then lastly is Mannheim Steamroller, Vinny, Vinny,

Emmanuel. All three of those versions, so just like, incredible, great, love listening all

of the time. I could listen probably to all three of those all year out. And that's number one. Number two, there's a great Christmas album by casting crowns. And there is a song they have heard the bells on Christmas Day. They put it into like a minor key. And so it's just, it's so good because I didn't realize that that song was so profound. In fact, I think I made a video about it a couple of years ago of just like the declaration of faith in the midst of this broken world and suffering and violence

and war and us hurting each other, that sense of death doesn't have the last word and evil and sin

don't have the last word, but God has the last word. I heard the bells on Christmas Day. I particularly

like that version by casting crowns.

Next one, the thing.

Breath of Heaven by Amy Grant.

Now, I don't know if I'm dating myself at this point when I say Breath of Heaven by Amy Grant,

but it's just, it's so good.

It's a song from the perspective of Mary in this uncertainty.

One of the things that I think we sometimes forget is that in Luke chapter one, when the angel comes to Mary and declares that here's what God's plan is for her life and she says, be it done to me according to thy word. It then says, then the angel departed from her. And that sense of like, yeah, there would be an uncertainty. There would be so much, so many questions. And so that God be near me. So I would pray that song so many times in high school, college, beyond, where it's just, okay, God, just be with me. Um, be with me now. Be with me now. Is one of the refrains that happens a couple times. It's so good. I'm going to mention some albums right now. Stephen Curtis Chapman, uh, Christmas album. Michael W. Smith, Christmas album, again, dating myself. The first two Amy Grant Christmas albums, so good. Barbara Streisand, Christmas album. My mom would play that all of the time on the days

leading up to Christmas and beyond Christmas. And it's so good. She sings both Ave Maria and the Lord's

prayer, which is great. But it just reminds me my mom. So did it all like Andy Williams Christmas or Ben Crosby Christmas.

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