The Gettys' Favorite Christmas Hymns (Keith and Kristyn Getty)

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🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In today's special Christmas episode, hymn-writers Keith and Kristyn Getty share their favorite Christmas hymns, and three songs of the songs will be played in during the interview. Keith and Kristyn Getty are hymn writers, GRAMMY®-nominated artists and the founding leaders of the Getty Music organization who hail from Northern Ireland. Their greatest musical passion is writing and championing great hymns of the church. Getty Music and Crossway are partnering to release the Sing! Hymnal in fall of 2025. Learn more about the upcoming hymnal here. Read the full transcript of this episode. O Come, O Come Emmanuel – arranged by Keith Getty, Fionan de Barra © 2019 Fionan De Barra Pub Designee (BMI) Getty Music Publishing (BMI) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) Brightest and Best – arranged by Keith Getty, Fionan de Barra, and Ben Shive © 2021 Getty Music Hymns and Songs (ASCAP) Fionan De Barra Pub Designee (BMI) Junkbox Music (ASCAP) Getty Music Publishing (BMI) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) In the Bleak Midwinter – Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty © 2016 Getty Music Publishing (BMI) (adm. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) Full recordings available on YouTube and all music streaming platforms; sheet music and other resources at www.gettymusic.store

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0:00.0	Keith and Kristen Getty are two of the most prolific and beloved hymn writers of our generation.
0:08.0	Their songs, including modern classics like In Christ Alone, and the Power of the Cross,
0:13.0	are sung by thousands of Christians in churches around the world each week.
0:18.0	But their love of hymns extends far beyond just those that they've written. Both
0:22.6	Keith and Kristen have a deep appreciation for the classic hymns of our faith as well. In keeping with
0:28.2	the holiday season, today I'm excited to sit down with Keith and Kristen to talk about their
0:32.7	favorite Christmas hymns and then listen to their performance of each one right here on the Crossway
0:37.7	podcast. Keith and Kristen are award-winning hymn writers who lead the Getty Music organization.
0:44.3	Getty Music has partnered with Crossway to create the all-new sing hymnal coming in the fall of 2025.
0:51.3	Let's get started.
1:01.4	Well, Keith and Kristen, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossway podcast.
1:02.9	Thanks for having us. Glad to be here.
1:04.0	So I'm really excited for our conversation for the chance to celebrate this Christmas season that we're in by talking about one of the best things
1:12.8	about the season, at least in my book, and that's Christmas Hymns. And we're going to do
1:17.8	something really fun in a few minutes. We're going to have you to share about your three
1:21.9	favorite Christmas hymns or three of your favorite Christmas hymns. And then we're going to
1:26.4	actually play them so that listeners can experience what it is about those songs that you both love so much.
1:33.4	But before we get to those hymns, my guess is that if you were to poll 100 evangelical Christians, that a good majority of them would say that even if they don't say they love hymns, generally speaking,
1:46.0	there are at least a couple Christmas hymns that they just cherish, that just means so much to them.
1:52.3	What do you think it is, Keith, about those classic Christmas hymns that makes them so special for so many of us?
1:58.9	Well, I think we have to go just a little bit deeper to the deep history of Christmas
2:02.0	hymns, and that is Christmas itself is a story that's told in songs.
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