Christmas Medley — One Christ, Fully Known

Krista filmed me playing this a couple of weeks ago... recording is below...

Nearly twenty years ago I found myself at my piano late one night, overwhelmed by the realization that we often speak of Jesus in fragments.

We celebrate the baby. We revere the Savior. We proclaim the King.

But we rarely hold them all at once.

Out of that quiet moment came a piece I have simply called “Christmas Medley.” It weaves together three melodies that, for me, represent the fullness of Christ:

• Lulay, Lulay (Thou Little Tiny Child)

• Mary, Did You Know?

• O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus

This is not a clever musical experiment but, rather, a confession of faith!

The Child — Innocence

Lulay, Lulay carries the fragile wonder of the Christ-child — the unspeakable humility of God entering the world not with thunder, but with breath and heartbeat.

This is the mystery that still stops me every time: the One who flung galaxies into space choosing to be carried in a woman’s womb.

The Son — Humanity

Mary, Did You Know? gives voice to the unanswerable questions.

"This sleeping child you’re holding in your arms

Is the great I AM…"

Jesus is not distant from us. He entered our hunger, our grief, our suffering, our skin. He did not save us from afar — He came inside our story.

The King — Sovereignty

Then rises O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus — a hymn that has long lived in my bones.

"Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free…

Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me…"

Here is the cross. Here is the throne. Here is love with no ceiling and no retreat. And here is God Almighty stepping His foot onto earth with a resounding THUD (the last note of the piece) to solve the problem of sin and death in "the kind intention of His will" at the moment of the fall in the Garden of Eden! Whenever I play that last resounding E, I am thinking:

"IT. IS. FINISHED."

Weaving These Three Together

So, when I play this piece, I am not moving through songs — I am beholding one Christ.

Not the baby instead of the King.

Not the Savior separate from the Creator.

But the fullness of Christ:

• Innocence without weakness

• Humanity without limitation

• Sovereignty without distance

Together they tell the story only Christmas can tell:

That the remedy for Eden did not come in fire or decree —it came in flesh.

A tiny, innocent child…who would grow into the Man of Sorrows…

who reigns forever as the victorious King.

And so today, Christmas Day, I share this piece with you — not as performance, but as worship.

May it help draw you once again into the wonder of one Christ, fully known.