These songs have travelled with me through many seasons of faith, family, and quiet worship. Some are centuries old, some more recent, and one is my own.
This album is offered as a Christmas gift — to be listened to slowly, shared freely, and returned to again.
Listen online
- The complete recording — YouTube
- Streaming edition — available from Christmas Day
Track listing
- O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
- The Truth From Above
- Gabriel’s Message
- In the Bleak Midwinter
- What Child Is This
- Away in a Manger (Normandy tune)
- Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
- The Lord’s My Shepherd
- As With Gladness
- Angels from the Realms
- We Three Kings
- Jesus, Name Above All Names
- Cornerstone
- Servant King (From Heaven You Came) · Kendrick
- Great Is Thy Faithfulness
- There Is a Redeemer · Green
- Praise You · Goodine
- In Christ Alone · Getty / Getty
- Goodness of God · Fielding / Johnson / Ingram
- What a Friend We Have in Jesus
- Blessèd Assurance
- I Love His Name (Uncle Eric’s hymn)
- Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
- Van Diemen’s Land
- Messiah (a poem by Mally)
Liner notes & acknowledgements
Most of the music on this album comes from hymns and carols that have been sung for generations. Some are centuries old, some more recent, and each has found its way into my life at different times and in different seasons.
Where individual writers are known, I have named them with gratitude. This includes contemporary songwriters whose work has shaped modern worship — among them Graham Kendrick, Stuart Townend, Keith and Kristyn Getty, and the writers of “Goodness of God.”
“Praise You” was written by Elizabeth Goodine.
“I Love His Name” is a family hymn that was written by my great-uncle, Eric Golden.
“Messiah” is a poem I wrote some years ago, and I’m grateful to be able to share it here in spoken form.
All performances on this recording are a cappella. The arrangements are simple, offered with care, and intended for listening rather than performance.
If something in the music or the poem stays with you, you’re very welcome to write to me at: thinkspeakrun@gmail.com
Author
davesali@gmail.com