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Joy to the World . . . All Year Long

By Filings on Thu, 12/24/20
Christmas Carols
Christmas
Second Advent
Church and Biblical History

“ ‘Joy to the World’ was never intended to be a Christmas hymn…. Watts wanted the reader to follow the prophetic thread, so to speak, out from the New Testament toward the ultimate future, where the Lord Christ would come, once and for all, to redeem all things.” - Ligonier

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Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.

(ESV, James 5:9)

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