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On Christmas Day

By Matt Osgood | Added 11th November 2008

Bible Passages: Isa 7:14; Matt 1:23; Luke 2:16; Luke 2:7

Themes: Incarnation, Christmas, God's love, Jesus

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The incarnation is full of seeming paradoxes and contradictions - the uncontainable God contained within a stable, the eternal God being born to a young girl, and so on. This song is an attempt to paint a picture of the amazing truth that "God is with us" through various Christmas images, and to respond to that in worship. Check out the Choir and Orchestra arrangment here.

1. On Christmas day, a humble girl
gives birth to hope for all the world,
this is Immanuel.
How awesome and mysterious,
the Lord of heaven draws near to us,
this is Immanuel.

2. The hands that once split night from day
now feebly clutch a blade of hay,
this is Immanuel.
Majestic king, now small and weak,
the Word of God must learn to speak,
this is Immanuel.

This is our God, seen by our eyes,
the love of the Father made known in Jesus Christ.
This is our God, worthy of praise,
the love of the Father revealed on Christmas day.

3. The shepherds come and bow to him,
the Lamb who takes away our sin,
this is Immanuel.
For God has entered time and space
to show the world his endless grace,
this is Immanuel.

Immanuel, Immanuel. Our God is with us now.
Immanuel, Immanuel. Our God is with us now.

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I honestly think this is an all-time Christmas classic. I hope more and more people sing it.

Joel Payne at 19:37 on 15th August 2011

Fills what I suspect may be a common gap in a church's repertoire - a brilliant, modern, accessible Christmas song. We've used it each year since it came out and it's become a classic already. A blessing to our church family.

Ben Atkins at 11:49 on 2nd September 2011

Moving, beautiful, another great tag for exporting to other songs. Sounds great in York Minster too!

Simon Bray at 16:14 on 19th September 2011

This is not only memorable but catchy and meaningful. I've used it lots

Tom Gough at 11:17 on 20th September 2011

We used a fusion of the choral/orchestral version and a rock band version, Christmas 2010 in our main carol service, and again on Christmas morning. Quite easy to teach to a scratch choir, and a good blend of trad/modern.

Daren Allder at 15:09 on 20th September 2011

a wonderful and lovely song praise the lord

Martin Staker at 10:02 on 13th October 2011

I sang this song in our church two years ago and it has become my favorite Christmas song. It tells the whole Christmas story in one prefect little work. I would love to repeat the work this year and add a simple slide show to it.

Gail Fehr at 14:23 on 18th October 2011

wonderful song.. I will sing this in my church this christmas season

Robert Gagarin at 04:54 on 20th October 2011

Found this beautiful song while browsing Resound for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Our music group now intend to use it in our Christmas Day worship at Standish Methodist Church. Thank you so much for making it available to us.

june lever at 10:33 on 20th October 2011

guys can you send me the guitar chord of this song...cuz it iz a tottally nice song and i want to sing it in my church............plz send it to drumerrocker@yahoo.com

drumer rocker at 07:24 on 23rd October 2011

Hi there, if you register with the site you can download chords, piano score, lead sheet all for free... we're nice like that :)

Matt Osgood at 22:49 on 23rd October 2011

We love this song. Our primary choir sang it at the local carols by candlelight in the community. The power of the words and tune cut through all the Santa clausing and tinseling. Thank you.

Cathy Smith at 21:56 on 27th November 2011

Big thanks! We've sung this at our informal worship service for the past three weeks and are due to sing it again on Christmas Day!

Julie Wheeler at 18:35 on 16th December 2011

This has been a real hit in our church - we have sung the 4-part version with a group of 'singing for fun' members in two carol services, and this year we plan to sing it during Midnight Communion on Christmas Eve, and again in the family service on Christmas morning, using the simpler version. Thank you for the Piano score - last time I played it from the full vocal score, necessitating lots of page turns, but the piano score is excellent for unison singing. God bless you all.

Libby Parr at 21:41 on 16th December 2011

We really enjoyed singing this on Christmas Day again this year. It was definitely the best song of the morning, only to be outdone by my husband's preaching of the word ;-) Last year we had Joel and Rhiannon Payne with us who taught this song to us, so we had a moment of happy remembrance of having them with us. We miss you two.

jan smith at 23:07 on 27th December 2011

Introduced this at Christmas and was well received and picked up by the congregation quickly. A great addition to the Christmas repertoire. Thankyou.

Jonathan Knight at 08:52 on 31st January 2012

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