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Efficiency of National Governments in Using Resources Data from Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) show a grim picture, with the 2024 CPI ranking 180 countries and over two-thirds scoring below 50 out of 100, indicating serious corruption that diverts citizen resources like taxes into private pockets rather than public goods. This aligns with Gallup's 2013 global survey (still reflective of ongoing trends) where majorities in 108 out of 129 countries viewed government corruption as widespread, leading to inefficiencies such as embezzlement and cronyism that waste funds on short-term favors instead of infrastructure or services. The World Bank's Government Effectiveness indicator, averaging -0.04 globally in 2023, further substantiates this, with low scores in unstable regions attributed to bureaucratic self-interest and rule-breaking that prioritize personal or partisan gains over efficient allocation. Because government employees routinely break rules and slow-roll policies, this inefficiency is amplified, as seen in analyses of bureaucratic resistance where civil servants delay or sabotage reforms not aligned with their preferred ideologies, resulting in stalled resource deployment and heightened waste across nations. Alignment of Government Actions with Citizen Desires Data reveal profound misalignment, with actions often serving elite or institutional agendas over public will. Pew's 2024 survey across 24 countries found 74% believing officials ignore ordinary citizens, a sentiment exacerbated by corruption that funnels decisions toward bribe-takers or power brokers. Studies on "deep state" dynamics highlight real instances of bureaucratic resistance, such as U.S. executive branch employees prioritizing continuity over presidential mandates, effectively undermining voter-expressed desires through delays or non-compliance. A 2023 Nature study showed citizens favor shared decision-making, yet corruption and partisan entrenchment in government ranks ensure policies reflect internal power struggles rather than broad preferences, leading to widespread dissatisfaction and low trust in representation. This is compounded by moves of power consolidation, where governments prioritize self-perpetuation over responsiveness, as evidenced in analyses of executive overreach that sidelines citizen input. Trends in Short-Term vs. Long-Term Policies and Laws Global trends heavily favor short-term political and financial gains, often at the expense of long-term national stability, as corrupt actors exploit immediate opportunities while resisting sustainable reforms. U.S. CBO projections show rising deficits from short-term spending, intensified by bureaucratic slow-rolling of fiscal discipline measures that threaten entrenched interests. Internationally, a 2022 systems study on policy-making notes group biases leading to short-termism, worsened by corruption that incentivizes quick wins like patronage over enduring investments. Trends in democratic erosion, including election manipulation and executive overreach, further entrench this, as governments consolidate power through policies that yield immediate control (e.g., emergency declarations) while eroding long-term institutional health. This bias is systemic, with data indicating persistent short-term focus amid power grabs that prioritize regime survival over national futures. Insights on Personal Liberty from Data Data confirm a steady erosion of personal liberty, with indices showing declines driven by authoritarian creep and rights restrictions. Freedom House's 2025 Freedom in the World report marks the 19th co year of global freedom decline, with 60 countries deteriorating in political rights and civil liberties due to assaults on institutions, repression, and armed conflicts that centralize power. The Cato Institute's 2024 Human Freedom Index echoes this, with global averages dropping since 2008 amid weakened rule of law and security, as governments expand surveillance and censorship to diminish individual autonomy. V-Dem data highlight lows in autocracies, but even democracies show backsliding through executive expansions and rights curbs, aligning with assumptions of tyranny's rise via power consolidation that systematically reduces personal freedoms like expression and assembly worldwide. #Corruption #Inefficiency #Misalignment #ShortTerGains #Tyranny #Bureaucracy #PowerGrab #Erosion #Authoritarianism #Backsliding #Cronyism #Entrenchment #Overreach #Patronage #Decline #Centralization #Surveillance #Repression #FreedomDecline #RegimeSurvival Relevant links: - Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index: https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2024 - Gallup global corruption survey: https://news.gallup.com/poll/165098/worldwide-majority-say-government-corruption-widespread.aspx - World Bank Government Effectiveness Indicator: https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/worldwide-governance-indicators - Pew Research Center survey on democracy: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/09/19/satisfaction-with-democracy/ - Freedom House Freedom in the World 2025: https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world - Cato Institute Human Freedom Index: https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index - V-Dem Institute indices: https://v-dem.net/

DISARMAMENT ENABLES TYRANNY Historical Overview Civilian Disarmament, the Erosion of Liberty, and Associated Atrocities in the 20th CenturyThe 20th century witnessed numerous instances where governments pursuing centralized authority and the suppression of individual rights implemented restrictions or outright confiscation of privately owned firearms as an early step in their consolidation of power. This disarmament was not typically pursued as an isolated policy but as a means to minimize resistance while enacting broader measures that dismantled personal freedoms, self-determination, property rights, free expression, political pluralism, and independent institutions. In several cases, this progression culminated in large-scale atrocities, including mass killings through executions, forced labor, starvation policies, and other forms of democide. Political scientist R.J. Rummel, in his extensive studies of democide (government-sponsored murder of civilians), estimated that totalitarian regimes alone were responsible for over 100 million such deaths in the 20th century, with disarmament often facilitating the unchecked exercise of state violence. While disarmament did not directly cause these outcomes in every instance, authoritarian leaders repeatedly prioritized it, indicating their recognition of armed civilians as a potential impediment to absolute control. The pattern suggests that private firearm ownership can raise the practical costs of oppression, contributing to deterrence. Notably, societies with widespread civilian gun ownership and robust democratic institutions, such as Switzerland and the United States, did not experience comparable internal tyrannical takeovers or mass democides during this period. Key Patterns Observed • Authoritarian regimes frequently followed a recognizable sequence: secure political dominance, implement civilian disarmament (general or targeted at specific groups), then systematically expand state control through surveillance, censorship, property seizures, purges, and the elimination of opposition. • Disarmament enabled the enforcement of policies that eroded self-determination, often without immediate armed challenge. • In cases where tyranny escalated to mass atrocities, death tolls reached millions, primarily through low-tech means like starvation, forced labor, and executions rather than requiring superior firepower against victims. • Heavily armed populations in liberal democracies correlated with the absence of internal democide on this scale. • No documented cases exist of a modern regime successfully imposing total tyranny or large-scale internal atrocities on a broadly armed civilian population without prior disarmament or overwhelming military domination. Detailed Case Studies (Post-1900) 1) Ottoman Empire/Young Turks and the Armenian Genocide (1915–1917) • Pre-war laws and decrees under the Young Turks regime facilitated searches and confiscations, particularly targeting Armenians viewed as disloyal. • This disarmament preceded and aided the forced deportations and massacres. • Broader erosion of liberty: Targeted elimination of Armenian intellectual and political leadership; suppression of minority rights. • Atrocities: Systematic genocide involving death marches, starvation, and mass killings, resulting in an estimated 1 to 1.5 million Armenian deaths (scholarly consensus ranges from 800,000 to 1.5 million, with many sources citing approximately 1.2 million). • Disarmament removed potential for organized resistance, allowing the regime to pursue ethnic homogenization with minimal opposition. 2) Soviet Union (1918 onward, intensifying under Stalin) • Bolshevik decrees from 1918–1920s banned private ownership; searches and confiscations escalated during collectivization and purges. • Targeted peasants and suspected opponents. • Broader erosion of liberty: Forced collectivization ended rural self-determination; establishment of secret police (Cheka/NKVD); abolition of private property, free press, religion, and political parties; Gulag system for dissenters. • Atrocities: Purges, engineered famines (including Holodomor), forced labor, and executions claimed an estimated 20 to 60 million lives across the Soviet era (Rummel estimated around 62 million total democide, with Stalin-era deaths often cited at 20–43 million). • Disarmament prevented uprisings against policies that transformed society into a totalitarian state. 3) Nazi Germany (1933–1945) • Built on Weimar registration laws; 1938 decree disarmed Jews and political opponents while easing restrictions for loyal Aryans. • Enabled targeted neutralization of perceived threats. • Broader erosion of liberty: Enabling Act dissolved democracy; Gestapo surveillance; abolition of independent judiciary, press, and parties; confiscation of property from targeted groups. • Atrocities: The Holocaust and related persecutions resulted in approximately 6 million Jewish deaths, with total Nazi victims (including Roma, Poles, disabled, and others) exceeding 11–17 million. • Selective disarmament facilitated early consolidation and the industrial-scale killing operations. 4) People's Republic of China (1949 onward, Mao era) • Nationwide civilian firearm ban in the 1950s following communist consolidation. • Prevented resistance to central planning and political campaigns. • Broader erosion of liberty: Nationalization of industry and land; hukou system restricting movement; suppression of dissent; one-party monopoly over all aspects of life. • Atrocities: The Great Leap Forward famine (1958–1962) alone caused an estimated 15–55 million deaths (most scholarly estimates around 30–45 million); the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) added 1–2 million deaths through violence and persecution; total Mao-era democide often estimated at 40–80 million. • Disarmament ensured no armed challenges to policies that caused widespread deprivation and terror. 5) Cambodia (Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979) • Immediate confiscations upon takeover, monopolizing arms under the regime. • Targeted urban populations and perceived enemies. • Broader erosion of liberty: Forced evacuation of cities; abolition of money, private property, religion, and family structures; total communal labor. • Atrocities: Executions, forced labor, starvation, and disease in the "killing fields" resulted in an estimated 1.5–2 million deaths (approximately 25% of the population; some estimates up to 2.5–3 million). • Disarmament prevented resistance to the regime's radical social engineering. 6) Cuba (1959 onward) • Rapid confiscations (1959–1960) leading to a comprehensive ban on private firearm ownership. • Consolidated revolutionary control. • Broader erosion of liberty: Nationalization of industry and land; suppression of independent media, religion, and politics; imprisonment or exile of opponents; indefinite suspension of multiparty elections. • While not escalating to mass atrocities on the scale of others, the regime maintained tight control, with thousands executed or dying in political prisons early on. • Disarmament eliminated potential for armed opposition to permanent one-party rule. 7) Venezuela (1999 onward, under Chávez and Maduro) • 2012 ban on civilian firearm sales and imports, resulting in widespread disarmament. • Reduced challenges to centralizing measures. • Broader erosion of liberty: Media closures and censorship; packing of judiciary and legislature; expropriation of private property; manipulation of elections; suppression of protests. • No large-scale atrocities comparable to 20th-century democides, but thousands died in protests and prison conditions amid economic collapse. • Disarmament supported the progressive slide from democracy toward authoritarian control. Conclusion The recurring prioritization of civilian disarmament by regimes seeking unchecked power underscores its perceived role in lowering barriers to tyranny. In cases where oppression escalated to atrocities, the human cost was staggering, with 20th-century democide totals estimated at over 200 million by some analyses (Rummel calculated around 262 million across all governments, dominated by totalitarian systems). Regimes acted as if armed citizens posed a meaningful obstacle, confiscating weapons early to facilitate surveillance, economic control, and, in extreme cases, mass killing. The absence of similar internal democides in armed democratic societies reinforces the deterrence inference: while not a sole guarantee of liberty, civilian arms complicate the path to absolute state dominance. Other factors—institutions, culture, international pressure—also influence outcomes, but the behavior of tyrants themselves highlights the rational fear of an armed populace. #Disarmament #Tyranny #LossOfLiberty #SelfDetermination #Democide #Atrocities #ArmedPopulace #Deterrence #GunConfiscation #StatePower #IndividualRights #Totalitarianism #HistoricalPatterns #ErosionOfFreedoms #Liberty #Control #Confiscation #Power #Rights #Totalitarianism #Patterns #Freedoms #Oppression #SecondAmendment #2A #ConstitutionalRights #LibertyTree https://sites.google.com/view/voluntaryist-patriot/home/my-politics/disarmed-victims

These were simply a repeat of the query parameters i used in Grok for the Nazis. I am sure it could be refined to be more accurate...

A mass shooting includes incidents of multiple victims (4+) killed by shooting in war crimes, executions, genocide, or ethnic cleansing. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime (1949-present) committed thousands of such acts via PLA, public security, militias, and Red Guards, targeting landlords, intellectuals, ethnic minorities (Tibetans, Uyghurs), counterrevolutionaries, and protesters. Exact counts are hard due to censorship and hidden records, but estimates: 2,000-5,000+ incidents, 1-4 million victims from direct shootings/executions (excluding famine, beatings, camps). Peak periods: 1949-1953 (Land Reform/Counterrevolutionaries campaigns), 1966-1976 (Cultural Revolution massacres), 1959 (Tibet uprising), 1989 (Tiananmen). By Period: - 1949-1953: ~1,000-2,000 incidents (Land Reform executions of landlords/nationalists). Victims: ~1-3 million shot. - 1954-1965: ~200-500 incidents (anti-rightist, early Tibet suppressions). Victims: ~100,000-300,000 executions. - 1966-1968 (Early Cultural Revolution): ~800-1,500 incidents (Red Guard/factional massacres like Dao County, Guangxi). Victims: ~300,000-800,000 killed (many shot). - 1969-1976: ~400-800 incidents (class cleansing purges). Victims: ~400,000-1 million. - 1959 (Tibet Uprising): ~50-100 incidents (executions post-revolt). Victims: tens of thousands shot/executed. - 1989 (Tiananmen): 1 major incident + related crackdowns. Victims: ~300-3,000 civilians shot (estimates vary widely). - 1990s-2010s: Fewer large-scale; scattered ethnic suppressions. - 2017-present (Xinjiang): Limited confirmed mass shootings; focus on camps/prisons with rare executions/shoot-to-kill escapes. Victims: hundreds documented. By Region/Country: - Mainland China (rural provinces like Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong): ~2,000+ incidents (Cultural Revolution massacres e.g. Dao County ~4,500; Guangxi ~100,000-150,000). Highest victims. - Tibet: ~100-200 incidents (1959 uprising crackdown, monastery executions). Victims: ~87,000+ killed overall, thousands shot. - Xinjiang (Uyghurs): ~50-100 incidents (historical suppressions; recent shoot-to-kill policies in camps). Victims: thousands over decades, limited recent mass shootings. - Beijing/Tiananmen: Centralized executions + 1989 massacre (~hundreds-thousands shot). These are conservative; many undocumented due to state secrecy. Shootings were primary execution method until 1980s. Sources: Historical archives, HRW, UN reports, scholar estimates (e.g. Rummel revised totals). Never forget the victims of repression. #Tiananmen #CulturalRevolution #Tibet #Uyghur #HumanRights

A mass shooting includes incidents of multiple victims (4+) killed by shooting in war crimes, executions, genocide, or ethnic cleansing. Soviet/Russian regimes (WWII-present) committed thousands of such acts via NKVD/Red Army (1939-1991) and Russian forces post-1991, targeting Poles, Ukrainians, Chechens, Balts, and others. Exact counts are hard due to hidden records, but estimates: 1,000-2,000+ incidents, 500,000-1M+ victims from direct shootings (excluding famine/Gulag deaths). Peak periods: 1940 (Katyn/political executions), 1941 (prison massacres), 1944 (deportations), 1990s-2000s (Chechnya), 2022+ (Ukraine invasion). By Period: - 1939-1940: ~100-200 incidents (Polish operations, early purges). Victims: ~150,000 (incl. Katyn ~22,000). - 1941: ~200-400 incidents (NKVD prison massacres during retreat). Victims: ~50,000-100,000 across Ukraine, Belarus, Baltics. - 1942-1945: ~100-200 incidents (deportations like Chechens/Crimean Tatars; some shootings). Victims: tens of thousands. - Post-1953: Fewer large-scale until 1990s. - 1994-2009 (Chechen wars): ~300-500 incidents (village cleansings like Samashki, Novye Aldi). Victims: ~50,000-100,000 civilians. - 2022-2025 (Ukraine): ~500-1,000+ incidents (Bucha, Izium executions). Victims: ~10,000-20,000 documented civilian shootings. By Country: - Poland: ~50-100 sites (Katyn + others, 1940). ~22,000 victims. - Ukraine: ~500-800 incidents (1941 prisons, 2022+ occupation). Highest victims: hundreds of thousands historical + thousands recent (Bucha ~73-500, Izium ~400+ graves). - Belarus: ~100-200 (Kurapaty, prisons). - Baltics: ~50-100 (1941 massacres). - Chechnya/Russia: ~500+ (wars, deportations like Khaibakh ~700 burned/shot). - Others (Crimea, Kazakhstan): Shootings during deportations. These are conservative; many undocumented. Sources: UN OHCHR, HRW, Memorial, historical archives. History repeats: Brutal repressions from Stalin to today. Never forget the victims. #Holodomor #Katyn #Bucha #Chechnya #WarCrimes

Nazi mass killings #Protect2A 1939: 50–100 incidents; victims: ~65,000 1941: 500–1,000 incidents; victims: ~500,000–700,000 1942: 500–800 incidents; victims: ~1.3 million 1943: 200–400 incidents; victims: ~300,000–500,000 1944–1945: 100–200 incidents; victims: ~100,000–200,000 This was my response to Giffords...

TAKE UP YOUR CROSS Becoming a Christian will not make your life easier. It will not get you special benefits from your coworkers. You will not benefit financially from it. You will not be rewarded in any way in this life for becoming a follower of Christ. That is not why you become His follower. Once you understand that He is GOD, how can you do anything other than bow at his feet? Once you understand the depth of His love for you, how can you willingly break His heart again? Once you understand how much He sacrificed for you, how can you hold back what you have from Him? Once you realize that He gave up His life for you, how can you offer anything less than your own? Being a Christian is not a part time commitment, it is an all-in kind of life. The rules we live by do not make sense to the rest of the world. They consider us fools for believing nonsense. Indeed, if what we believe is not true then we deserve the ridicule. " and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied." I Corinthians 14:14-19 In light of all of this, we must be sure of our faith. It is a life altering commitment when taken seriously. There will be consequences. Jesus said: "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me." Luke 9:23 These were not idle words. The people listening would have understood exactly what he was saying. In the Roman Empire, crucifixion was common. The people listening knew that when someone carried a cross, they were on their way to be executed in a horrible way. They were forced to carry the very instrument of their own death. It was a walk of hopeless shame. Jesus told his followers to expect to be treated like criminals condemned to death. He said they needed to treat every day like it was their last day on Earth. The fate of many of the believers of that time and almost all the Apostles would illustrate this expectation in gory detail. They were killed in the most horrific ways know to man. At this time, when you became a Christian it was more than just something you mostly believed. It was willingly accepting a death sentence as a possibility. We are not promised an easy life; quite the contrary. We are told to expect hardship. “Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well...” John 15:20 “These things I have spoken to you so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 “Indeed, all who want to live in a godly way in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.” II Timothy 3:12 “strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, ‘It is through many tribulations that we must enter the kingdom of God.’” Acts 14:22 “For to you it has been granted for Christ’s sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer on His behalf.” Philippians 1:29 “Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though something strange were happening to you; but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that at the revelation of His glory you may also rejoice and be overjoyed.” I Peter 4:12-13 “Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in distresses, in persecutions, in difficulties, in behalf of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am strong.” II Corinthians 12:10 “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or trouble, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? ... But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.” Romans 8:35-37 Don't make the mistake of thinking you can have all the benefits of the faith without experiencing the costs. If that is what you want, then you are in the wrong place. If that is what you are currently experiencing, then you should ask yourself some hard questions. Satan attacks the children of God. He is our enemy and always seeking ways to destroy us. If he is not attacking you, then you must ask why. Are you a threat to him? Are you living for God? Are you taking your faith seriously? Were you honest in your commitment to follow Jesus? “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’” Matthew 7:21-23 There are those who act a certain way thinking that is what it takes to get into Heaven. They will be surprised when the time comes to stand before the judgement seat of God. What will they say in their defense? Our actions do not buy our entry into Heaven. Rather, our actions are a byproduct of our adoption into the family of Christ. The only defense we will have on that day is the forgiveness Jesus offers to us. If we accepted it, then we are in. Live your life for Christ. He is worthy of everything we could ever do. He is worthy of all praise. He alone is worthy. Maranatha! Come quickly Lord Jesus! #Cross #Discipleship #Suffering #Persecution #Commitment #Sacrifice #Tribulation #Faith #Cost #Denial #Jesus #Christ #God #Bible

Politics world wide can be broken down into its most simple equation: "When the lion's hungry, he eats!" https://youtube.com/shorts/9CjBTYM9Ou8?si=VxhIWPGxFwFnQ53J #politics #rules #jungle #lion #PowerPolitics #TheGentlemen #MatthewMcConaughey

Updated Christmas Music Playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3O1-QmH2IOd1i-tA8DBANI7h9jM6Zs1J&si=aqhGK_9WJZamna94 ________________________ O Holy Night – Céline Dion (1998) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46s4OwcF6oQ Joseph’s Lullaby – MercyMe (2005) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bM4tT6pa4U O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – Francesca Battistelli (2012) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v0i1vM5cPc Noel (Live) – Chris Tomlin ft. Lauren Daigle (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ5Bpy3K5OQ Light of the World – Lauren Daigle (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q4oK1NlmjA Silent Night – Planetshakers (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tX2H6oL8nU Almost There – Michael W. Smith ft. Amy Grant (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S30X1x8n6c Breath of Heaven (Mary’s Song) – Amy Grant (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWoJzc7EHoM Mary, Did You Know? – Mark Lowry (performed by Gaither group, 1991/2012 live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B4v4e3iM3s Be Born in Me (Mary) – Francesca Battistelli (2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VGK5O5p7kU He Shall Reign Forevermore – Chris Tomlin (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v7kL8f4X9c What Child Is This? – Josh Groban (2007) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bmc1l81kK4 O Come All Ye Faithful – The Five Strings (flash mob, 2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sZ7r8X7O2M Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – Celtic Woman (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lO7pB1aR2c Gloria/Angels We Have Heard on High – Casting Crowns (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2J2k9n4qTU Joy to the World – Southeast Worship (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrLoWt2tfqg Heirlooms – Amy Grant (1989) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oQ1r7z7z9U I’ll Be Home for Christmas – Amy Grant (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u2iW7yqO8g Grown-Up Christmas List – Amy Grant (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF4B2l7l9oA Tender Tennessee Christmas – Amy Grant (1983/2007 re-recording) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rO8w3s8v2k Christmas Time Is Here – Daniela Andrade (2014 cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sY0K2y3s8c When Christmas Comes to Town – The Polar Express (2004) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sB3vH4w9yM You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch – Thurl Ravenscroft (1966) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh0d5o3T0GU Little Saint Nick – The Beach Boys (1963/1991 remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSynDh_K0EE Christmas Will Be Different This Year – Gary LeVox (2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0d8p5k9X5c Mary, Did You Know? – Pentatonix (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifCWN5pJGIE Manger Throne – Phil Wickham (2023) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dK5o5t5z8U God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – The Petersens (2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v7kL8f4X9c (live version) Light of the World (Sing Hallelujah) – We The Kingdom (2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v7kL8f4X9c Messiah – Francesca Battistelli (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x0X2X7p9cU Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Christina Aguilera (2000) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sB3vH4w9yM All I Want for Christmas Is You – Mariah Carey (1994) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQVi6uB0oI Baby It’s Cold Outside – Idina Menzel & Michael Bublé (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bbuBubZ1yE Wrapped in Red – Kelly Clarkson (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih-Q3iWsuO8 Underneath the Tree – Kelly Clarkson (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3p4p6k0kE4 Little Drummer Boy – for KING + COUNTRY (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OQ1e3t3z8A Deck the Halls – Pentatonix (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sB3vH4w9yM Sleigh Ride – Amy Grant (1983/2020 lyric video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rO8w3s8v2k You Make It Feel Like Christmas – Gwen Stefani ft. Blake Shelton (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sB3vH4w9yM White Christmas – Kelly Clarkson (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sB3vH4w9yM #Christmas #ChristmasMusic #ChristmasPlaylist #Playlist #ChristianMusic #Worship #Church #Christ #Jesus