Questions will rise about the Christmas album’s title, “Far As The Curse Is Found.” The title comes from a line in “Joy to the World.”
Here is an excellent article that helps explain it. A snippet is below to quickly sum it up if you don’t have time to read the whole thing:
In this remarkable carol, we hear the announcement of a Gospel as big as the cosmos itself. The blessings of Jesus’ redemption flow as far as the curse is found, wherever that curse is found—in family life, political and business life; in government, industry, and science; in the arts and in recreation; education and economics. This is a Gospel for people who vote and work; who shop and play; who learn and create. It isn’t a Gospel simply for a disembodied existence on the other side of death. Lowell Mason’s hymn reminds us that the Gospel is good news to a world where every aspect of the cosmos and our existence in it is twisted away from the intention of the Creator’s design by the powers of sin and death.
I am so glad I followed the link from CCJ’s blog. Because I was going to ask, why that title? Now I know. Excellent.