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Buddy Greene CHRISTMAS/ Not Just Any Night brings the fresh, beautiful playing and singing of Buddy Greene, with his very talented Nashville friends, to consider - in an engaging variety of sounds and style - the real Christmas story. Features the Mark Lowry- Buddy Greene classic Christmas song, Mary, Did You Know. A word from Buddy Greene Ive always wanted to produce a Christmas album. I sort of like the idea of working thematically and, for me - one who believes that Jesus is the Messiah, the only Son Of God, come to earth to preach good news to the poor and set the captives free - there is no better theme than His birth and the advent of His kingdom. Christians today tend to be very predictable, but not Jesus. He arrived in a very unlikely fashion. He was born to poor parents in an animal stable - a feed trough for a bed - in an obscure little town called Bethlehem. His birth did not go unnoticed. A remarkably diverse cross-section of humanity became aware of this amazing child: a rag tag group of shepherds, mysterious gift-ladened foreigners from the East and a mad and murderous king who somehow knew this baby-monarch was a very real threat to the kingdoms of this world. Jesus was always unpredictable. He astounded the teachers at the temple at age twelve (not to mention worrying and embassasing his parents.) He turned water into wine. He began a ministry at age thirty which he would complete, three years later, nailed to a Roman cross, vilified and crucified by the religious status quo and the political powers vainly trying to rid themselves of this upstart, radical teacher-healer who made himself out to be God. He kept bad company, told stories of a kingdom not of this world, loved the poor and incited the religious. He attracted children and whores and vagabonds and braggarts and little lonely people - rich and poor alike. He forgave them of all their sins. Finally, He paid for their sins and your sins and my sins. No, that was not just any night...and, not just any baby. It was the night when God himself entered human history, became flesh and blood and moved into the neighborhood. It was the night the angels sang and, from that night on, people and angels have continued to sing and play and dance and work to the glory of this God: the God who is with us and in us and for us. This One who, though rich, yet for our sakes became poor so that we through His poverty might become rich. What a night! What a baby! The amazing, unpredictable, loving God...come to earth with us. His name is Jesus.