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“Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.”  (Psalm 98:4-6)

It is so easy to take the old Christmas songs for granted, thinking they’re out-dated or old-fashioned! Nothing could be further from the truth! Today’s carol, “Joy to the World” was actually written to a musical score entitled “Antioch”, named after the city of Antioch where believers were first called Christians (see Acts 11:26).

I just saw the official news that the U.S. has been in a recession since a year ago, however the Bush administration has avoided the word “recession” like the plague. But now that Bush is on the way out, the National Bureau of Economic Research has become emboldened, and is calling it what it is–and has been.

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