Christmas is the first Christmas worship album of Christian Contemporary music composed of Christmas

Christmas

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...

 songs by the Hillsong Church

Hillsong Church

Hillsong Church is a Pentecostal megachurch affiliated with Australian Christian Churches and located in Sydney, Australia. The church's senior pastors, Brian and Bobbie Houston, began the church in 1983 as the Hills Christian Life Centre in Baulkham Hills...

.

Album details

The songs on Christmas are renditions of popular Christmas carols and several of Hillsong Music

Hillsong Music

Hillsong Music is Christian music produced by Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia as well as offshoot churches, Hillsong London and Hillsong Kiev...

's own songs led by Darlene Zschech

Darlene Zschech

Darlene Joyce Zschech is an Australian Pentecostal worship leader and singer-songwriter who primarily writes praise and worship songs. She is the former worship pastor of Hillsong Church and is currently a member of Compassionart, a charity founded by Martin Smith.-Biography:As a young adult...

 & the Hillsong Team. This album has three more tracks than the earlier version of this album entitled Jesus, Christmas Worship Down Under, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Away in a Manger and The First Nowell.

Track listing

1. "Silent Night
   Silent Night
   "Silent Night" is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song "Stille Nacht" were written in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, by the priest Father Joseph Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber...
   
   " (traditional; arranged by Russell Fragar)
2. "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" (traditional; arranged by Peter King)
3. "Saviour of the World" (Katia Bowley)
4. "Jesus
   Jesus
   Jesus of Nazareth , commonly referred to as Jesus Christ or simply as Jesus or Christ, is the central figure of Christianity...
   
   , What a Beautiful Name" (Tanya Riches
   Tanya Riches
   Tanya Riches is a singer, songwriter, choir conductor, lecturer and pastor residing in Sydney, Australia. Originally publishing her works through Hillsong Church, she authored popular title 'Jesus What a Beautiful Name' at the age of 15, which reached the top #10 Christian congregational songs in...
   
   )
5. "The Reason Why" (Fragar)
6. "Away in a Manger
   Away in a Manger
   "Away in a Manger" is a Christmas carol first published in 1885 in Philadelphia and used widely throughout the English-speaking world. In Britain it is one of the most popular carols, a 1996 Gallup Poll ranking it joint second.-History of the lyrics:...
   
   " (traditional; arranged by Fragar)
7. "Perfect Love" (Darlene Zschech
   Darlene Zschech
   Darlene Joyce Zschech is an Australian Pentecostal worship leader and singer-songwriter who primarily writes praise and worship songs. She is the former worship pastor of Hillsong Church and is currently a member of Compassionart, a charity founded by Martin Smith.-Biography:As a young adult...
   
    & Fragar)
8. "O Holy Night
   O Holy Night
   "O Holy Night" is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" by Placide Cappeau , a wine merchant and poet, who had been asked by a parish priest to write a Christmas poem...
   
   " (traditional; arranged by Reuben Morgan
   Reuben Morgan
   Reuben Morgan is the worship pastor and one of several worship leaders and songwriters alongside Darlene Zschech at the Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia. He has written songs such as "Eagles Wings", "Hear Our Praises", "I Give You My Heart", "My Redeemer Lives" and "Mighty to Save", which won...
   
    & King)
9. "Rejoice" (Donia Makedonez)
10. "Star of Bethlehem
    Star of Bethlehem
    In Christian tradition, the Star of Bethlehem, also called the Christmas Star, revealed the birth of Jesus to the magi, or "wise men", and later led them to Bethlehem. The star appears in the nativity story of the Gospel of Matthew, where magi "from the east" are inspired by the star to travel to...
    
    " (instrumental; David Moyse)
11. "The First Noel
    The First Noël
    The First Nowell is a traditional classical English carol, most likely from the 18th century, although possibly earlier...
    
    " (traditional; arranged by King)
12. "O Come, All Ye Faithful"/"Jesus You Are All I Live For" (traditional; arranged by Fragar & Simeon Webster)
13. "Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Halleluyah, and the Latin form Alleluia are transliterations of the Hebrew word meaning "Praise Yah". The last syllable is from the first two letters of the name of God, YHWH, written JHVH in Latin). Hallelujah is found primarily in the book of Psalms...
    
    " (Zschech)
14. "Glory to God" (Morgan)