Stephen Nichols

Hopefully you'll find, you know, your favorite hymn in here.

But I included, for instance, Go Tell It on the Mountain.

And we don't realize, but that's actually a Christmas carol and a Christmas hymn.

And here's just one of the stanzas.

Down in a lonely manger, our humble Christ was born.

And God sent us salvation that blessed Christmas morn.

So go tell it on the mountain.

It's great.

Well, I hope they recognize there is a story here to walk through the whole Christmas story and walk through the gospel.

And so I think that can be helpful.

But you can also just dip in here.

And there's quotes from the usual suspects, Martin Luther, Jonathan Edwards, Spurgeon, Calvin.

But there's also some lesser knowns in church history.

that just have wonderful, so gospel-filled reflections on Christmas.

And so I hope it just introduces you to some new people and just gives you some nuggets to be thinking about as you celebrate Christmas as a family.

For instance, John Milton, of course, Paradise Lost, wrote a great poem called On the Morning of Christ's Nativity.

Here's just a few lines, Nathan.

This is the month and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King of wedded maid and virgin mother born.

Our great redemption from above did bring, for so the holy sages once did sing, that He, our deadly forfeit, should release.

And with his father, work for us a perpetual peace.