having just played the small selection of jazzed up carols that I always seem to do at our christmas meetings I realised that I avoid a lot of the ‘usual suspects’ cos they don’t seem to have any theological truth, gospel or ANYTHING apart from the weather and a name check of who was there (silent night etc). It’s a shame because most of the tunes are great & singable.

SO…

how about inviting people to write a new verse for their favourite christmas favourite(old ones in public domain only). It needs to be in the language style of the original (thees & thous?) , and have some gospel truth in it (though not so much crammed in that it sticks out like a sore thumb).

You could invite people to send the lyrics about Oct time & then post the best ones on your site for all of us to use . what do you think? I’ll even try to do one myself if you will (think I’ll try “when santa got stuck up the chimney”…just kidding!)

happy new year
matt

steve