Christmas Worship Song


As the daylight hours get shorter and as the autumn leaves fall off the trees in blustering breezes, the time has come for worship leaders to start to search for Christmas songs. This gives enough time for important decisions to be made, think through how things fit together etc.

I would imagine most of us will include a few traditional christmas songs to include, but are still searching for Christmas songs that will fit within the sound of a modern worship setting. With this in mind, I set about writing this Christmas song called 'Emmanuel'. It centres around the theme mentioned in Isaiah 14 and Matthew 1:

But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,[f] because he will save his people from their sins.”
22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”[g] (which means “God with us”).

So have a listen to the demo of the song below. If you like it and would like to use it as part of your church's Christmas worship you can download and print off the chord chart here 

The song is registered with CCLI so if your church is siged up, you can use the song without anny questions within the copyright rules. Please do remember to notify CCLI of your use of the song in your church's annual CCLI report. Thank you.


Emmanuel

God so loved the world he gave
His only Son for us
Love made know in human form
His plan for our salvation
Emmanuel
God is with us, God is with us
Emmanuel
You came to save us, You came to save us
What miracle the virgin birth
Divine humanity
The Christ child to die as a man
To bring us back to God
What mystery, what majesty
Amazing grace, Your love for me
By Matt McChlery. Copyright (c) 2011 Faithseed Music. Admin my Song Solutions Copycare.

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