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Lifespring! Why Christmas Day 22 - 2022 Lifespring! WhyChristmas Show
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- Kids & Family
Transcript
Podcast Introduction
It’s Day 22 of the 2022 encore of the 2009 season of the Lifespring! Why Christmas show, hosted by James Cooper, creator of whychristmas.com, and me the OG Godcaster, Steve Webb, of lifespringmedia.com.
Christmas is almost here, when we’ll have the drawing to find out who will win an autographed copy of Bryan Duncan’s A NehoSoul Christmas CD. There’s still time for you to enter. For details, go to lifespringmedia.com/day9 to see how. It could be you!
Gifts for your Christmas podcast hosts are welcome at /support
Design: Steve Webb. Christmas tree character: James Cooper
Notes
On today's show James will tell you a bit about the history of Christmas Carols and plays a version of 'Oh Come all ye Faithful' by Jill Parr.
Find out more at: http://yxmas.com/carols
Support
This a value for value podcast. There are no advertisers because advertising=censorship. If you enjoy the Lifespring Family Audio Bible, decide how much value it brings to you. Only you can make that determination. Then put a number on the value and send it to me here: SUPPORT.
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Steve Webb 0:02It's day 22 of the 2022 encore of the 2009 season of the Lifespring White Christmas show hosted by my good friend James Cooper, creator of whychristmas.com and me the OG Godcaster Steve Webb of Lifespringmedia.com. Christmas is almost here we will have the drawing to find out who will win an autographed copy of Brian Duncan's and Neil's soul Christmas CD but there's still time for you to enter. For details go to Lifespringmedia.com slash day nine to see how that's Lifespringmedia.com slash da y numeral nine no spaces. You could be the winner. Gifts for your Christmas podcast hosts are welcome at Lifespringmedia.com slash support.
James Cooper 0:52Hello, and welcome to date 22 of the 2009 Lifespring Why Christmas Show. Back on day five. You might remember I told you the story behind one of our most popular Christmas carols Silent Night. But what are Christmas carols and why don't we just call them Christmas songs? Well, the word carol actually means a dance or song of praise and joy and carols were originally written to be sung during all four seasons. But the tradition has only really kept a Christmas so we have Christmas carols. The first Christmas carols are written by people in the early church to try and stop people from singing their old pagan carols that they sang during the winter solstice festivals. But there was a problem. Most of these early Christian carols were written in Latin, a language that only people in the church or very well educated people could understand. So most normal people didn't have a clue what the carols were about. But this was changed in 1223. Winston Francis of Assisi had the radical idea of actually writing something that people's own language. When Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans came to power in England in 1647. They banned Christmas carol singing and carols weren't really sung ...
Transcript
Podcast Introduction
It’s Day 22 of the 2022 encore of the 2009 season of the Lifespring! Why Christmas show, hosted by James Cooper, creator of whychristmas.com, and me the OG Godcaster, Steve Webb, of lifespringmedia.com.
Christmas is almost here, when we’ll have the drawing to find out who will win an autographed copy of Bryan Duncan’s A NehoSoul Christmas CD. There’s still time for you to enter. For details, go to lifespringmedia.com/day9 to see how. It could be you!
Gifts for your Christmas podcast hosts are welcome at /support
Design: Steve Webb. Christmas tree character: James Cooper
Notes
On today's show James will tell you a bit about the history of Christmas Carols and plays a version of 'Oh Come all ye Faithful' by Jill Parr.
Find out more at: http://yxmas.com/carols
Support
This a value for value podcast. There are no advertisers because advertising=censorship. If you enjoy the Lifespring Family Audio Bible, decide how much value it brings to you. Only you can make that determination. Then put a number on the value and send it to me here: SUPPORT.
Transcript
Download .txt file.
Steve Webb 0:02It's day 22 of the 2022 encore of the 2009 season of the Lifespring White Christmas show hosted by my good friend James Cooper, creator of whychristmas.com and me the OG Godcaster Steve Webb of Lifespringmedia.com. Christmas is almost here we will have the drawing to find out who will win an autographed copy of Brian Duncan's and Neil's soul Christmas CD but there's still time for you to enter. For details go to Lifespringmedia.com slash day nine to see how that's Lifespringmedia.com slash da y numeral nine no spaces. You could be the winner. Gifts for your Christmas podcast hosts are welcome at Lifespringmedia.com slash support.
James Cooper 0:52Hello, and welcome to date 22 of the 2009 Lifespring Why Christmas Show. Back on day five. You might remember I told you the story behind one of our most popular Christmas carols Silent Night. But what are Christmas carols and why don't we just call them Christmas songs? Well, the word carol actually means a dance or song of praise and joy and carols were originally written to be sung during all four seasons. But the tradition has only really kept a Christmas so we have Christmas carols. The first Christmas carols are written by people in the early church to try and stop people from singing their old pagan carols that they sang during the winter solstice festivals. But there was a problem. Most of these early Christian carols were written in Latin, a language that only people in the church or very well educated people could understand. So most normal people didn't have a clue what the carols were about. But this was changed in 1223. Winston Francis of Assisi had the radical idea of actually writing something that people's own language. When Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans came to power in England in 1647. They banned Christmas carol singing and carols weren't really sung ...
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