Christmas Offerings is the seventh full-length album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by the Christian

Christian music

Christian music is music that has been written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith. Common themes of Christian music include praise, worship, penitence, and lament, and its forms vary widely across the world....

 band Third Day

Third Day

Third Day is a Grammy award-winning Christian rock band formed in Marietta, Georgia during the 1990s. The band was founded by lead singer Mac Powell, guitarist Mark Lee and former member Billy Wilkins. The other band members are bassist Tai Anderson and drummer David Carr...

. It was released on October 17, 2006. "Away in a Manger", "Silent Night", "The First Noel" and "Do You Hear What I Hear" are all live versions. "Christmas Like A Child", "Born in Bethlehem", "Merry Christmas" and "Jesus, Light of the World" are original songs recorded in studio.

Track listing

1. "O Come All Ye Faithful" (John Francis Wade) – 3:51
2. "Do You Hear What I Hear?
   Do You Hear What I Hear?
   "Do You Hear What I Hear?" is a Christmas song written in October 1962 with lyrics by Noël Regney and music by Gloria Shayne Baker. The pair were married at the time, and wrote it as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis...
   
   " (Noel Regney, Gloria Shayne) – 3:37
3. "Born in Bethlehem" (Mac Powell) – 3:43
4. "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...
   
   " (Adolphe Adam, Placide Cappeau) – 4:06
5. "Angels We Have Heard on High
   Angels We Have Heard on High
   "Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol. The song commemorates the story of the birth of Jesus Christ found in the Gospel of Luke, in which shepherds outside Bethlehem encounter a multitude of angels singing and praising the newborn child....
   
   " (traditional) – 3:50
6. "Silent Night" (Francz X. Gruber, Joseph Mohr) – 4:10
7. "Jesus, Light of the World" (Mark Lee) – 3:56
8. "Joy to the World
   Joy to the World
   "Joy to the World" is a Christian Christmas carol.The words are by English hymn writer Isaac Watts, based on Psalm 98 in the Bible. The song was first published in 1719 in Watts' collection; The Psalms of David: Imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian state and...
   
   " (Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts) – 3:36
9. "What Child Is This?
   What Child Is This?
   "What Child Is This?" is a popular Christmas carol written in 1865. At the age of twenty-nine, English writer William Chatterton Dix was struck with a sudden near-fatal illness and confined to bedrest for several months, during which he went into a deep depression...
   
   " (William Chatterton) – 3:30
10. "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) – 2:59
11. "Christmas Like a Child" (Tai Anderson) – 4:02
12. "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:...
    
    " (James R. Murray) – 3:57
13. "Merry Christmas" (Brad Avery) – 6:30

Awards

In 2007, the album won a Dove Award for Christmas Album of the Year at the 38th GMA Dove Awards.

Personnel

• Tai Anderson – Bass, Art Direction, Group Member
• Robert Ascroft – Photography
• Brad Avery – Guitar, Group Member
• Blaine Barcus – A&R
• Brandon Brooks – Cello
• David Carr – Drums, Group Member
• James Chadwick – Translation
• John Sullivan Dwight – Translation
• Laura Harrington – Assistant Engineer
• Terry Hemmings – Executive Producer
• Mark "Anarchy" Lee – Guitar, Group Member
• Stephanie McBrayer – Art Direction
• Don McCollister – Vocals (bckgr), Producer, Engineer, Mixing
• Jonathan Medley – Assistant Engineer
• Frederick Oakeley – Translation
• Tim Parker – Art Direction
• Michelle Pearson – A&R
• Mac Powell – Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Group Member
• Kris Sampson – Assistant Engineer
• Traci Sgrignoli – Make-Up, Hair Stylist, Stylist
• Tony Terrebonne – Engineer, Assistant Engineer
• Stephanie Waldrop – Art Direction
• Craig White – Engineer
• Scotty Wilbanks – Piano, Keyboards, Organ (Hammond)
• Hank Williams – Mastering
• John E Young – Translation