{"id":9322,"date":"2018-12-25T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=9322"},"modified":"2020-11-14T19:11:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T01:11:06","slug":"the-greatest-christmas-song-index-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2018\/the-greatest-christmas-song-index-resources.html","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Christmas Song: Index\/Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a place to list, in order, all the posts about &#8220;the greatest Christmas song&#8221; in order, and to provide you with a few other things to check out if you&#8217;re interested&#8230;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"475\" height=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/allyefaithful.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/allyefaithful.jpg 475w, https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/allyefaithful-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2018\/a-measure-of-modern-christmas.html\"><strong>A Measure of Modern Christmas<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 <em>Music is perhaps one of the best measures of what Christmas has become in our world today. I think it was last year when I heard about a poll that ambitiously tried to identify the greatest Christmas song of all time. Of all time!<\/em><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2018\/greatest-christmas-song.html\">The Greatest Christmas Song?<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 <em>The greatest Christmas song of all time. A tough choice! When asked what my favourite is, I usually choose It Came Upon A Midnight Clear. But that&#8217;s not what this article is about.<\/em><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2018\/the-greatest-christmas-song-king-of-angels.html\">The Greatest Christmas Song: King of Angels<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 <em>This week we&#8217;ll take a look at the first verse and chorus of the song I chose as the greatest Christmas song of all time&#8230;<\/em><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2018\/the-greatest-christmas-song-the-missing-verse.html\">The Greatest Christmas Song: The Missing Verse<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 <em>When I think of O Come All Ye Faithful, I think especially of of verse 2 &#8230; I started pulling out hymnbooks from my shelf. And surprisingly, I only found one hymnal that even had this verse!<\/em><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2018\/the-greatest-christmas-song-come-and-worship.html\">The Greatest Christmas Song: Come and Worship!<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 <em>Today I&#8217;m going to cheat, and include three verses. The first one is probably the most familiar to you&#8230;<\/em><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/the-greatest-christmas-song-why-was-the-baby-there.html\">The Greatest Christmas Song \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Why was the Baby there?<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 <em>O Come All Ye Faithful may contain a lot of theology, but it&#8217;s almost purely for the purpose of worship. You might say, it doesn&#8217;t explain a lot. But we do get some important hints in the next verse.<\/em><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/the-greatest-christmas-song-christmas-greetings.html\">The Greatest Christmas Song: Christmas Greetings<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 <em>Yea (yes), Lord, we greet Thee! The most important greetings we can give at Christmas, or any time.<\/em><br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some other resources that you&#8217;ll want to check out if you want to learn about this song. First,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hymntime.com\/tch\/htm\/o\/c\/o\/ocomeayf.htm\"> the <strong>Cyber Hymnal<\/strong> has it in 14 languages<\/a>, as well as some background on the authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, a couple of posts from my Dad, <strong>Robert Cottrill<\/strong>, at your one-stop-site for interesting hymn facts every day of the year. Check out <em><a href=\"https:\/\/wordwisehymns.com\/2012\/05\/14\/o-come-all-ye-faithful\/\">O Come, All Ye Faithful<\/a><\/em> and also an article about <em><a href=\"https:\/\/wordwisehymns.com\/2010\/08\/16\/today-in-1786-john-francis-wade-died\/\">John Wade<\/a><\/em>, and one about <em><a href=\"https:\/\/wordwisehymns.com\/2010\/09\/05\/today-in-1802-frederick-oakeley-born\/\">Frederick Oakeley<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone else was posting about this song this year &#8211; <strong>Michael Kelley<\/strong> from LifeWay. 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