Singing: Birth of Christ

Christmas has always been special to me, it was how I was brought to our church literately.

A friend invited me to attend his church's midnight Christmas celebrations, it was a elaborated affair that I never had imagined. Dressing up for church as if they were going to a grand ball at MIDNIGHT! Who does that?

Well, christians does that!

Why?

Because its a celebration of the birth of someone very very dear to their hearts.

I was impressed by the music on my first Christmas midnight mass. There were drums, guitars, bass guitars, piano, organ players who played in great sync with such joy. There was a sense of warmth to their worship. That great desire to play beyond their very best to celebrate the birth of Christ. I have not seen worship at such genuine level before. There were hiccups and last min obstacles that they need to overcome but everyone pitched in to put up the greatest show they can.

And the choir.... oh my, they stood for almost the entire 2hours, blasting their lungs out. The melodious music with the festive mood was overly joyful to the soul.

I was an addict to Christmas celebrations in our church.

Gradually over a few years, I just kept wanting to go back for the Christmas mass. It was always so delightful!

THEN I myself started to join in the choir to create the "noise" hee.... Time and time again, we all looked forward to performing a great show for the birth of baby Jesus. We sang our hearts out, belt our voices hoarse.

Today I finally knew why we enjoyed doing that so much....

Today our Saviour is Born
Today our Saviour is Bo-rn
This is the day
This is the day
Christ our Saviour is Born!

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Friday, December 25, 2009
We Praise God for the Gift of Jesus
by Rick Warren
From the Gospel of Luke we see the birth announcement of Jesus -

Suddenly, God's angel stood among them and God's glory blazed around them. They were terrified.

The angel said, "Don't be afraid. I'm here to announce a great and joyful event that is meant for everybody, worldwide: A Savior has just been born in David's town, a Savior who is Messiah and Master. This is what you're to look for: a baby wrapped in a blanket and lying in a manger."

At once the angel was joined by a huge angelic choir singing God's praises:

Glory to God in the heavenly heights,
Peace to all men and women on earth who please him.

Luke 2:9-14 (MSG)