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If Everyone Believed from O Holy Night

By David Phelps

1,416 views Sep 26, 2026 updated One Wintry Night album Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

David Phelps spends most of this one describing ordinary holiday details rather than making any theological claim at all — "lights are twinkling down the block... the smell of cookies baking... we dust off that old record and sing along with Nat King Cole." It reads, for a while, like any secular Christmas song.


Then, without much fanfare, the scene shifts: "Daddy breaks out the Bible and brings it all back home, we gather to remember the greatest story ever told." The whole song has been building toward this one family tradition, mentioned almost in passing among stockings and ice rinks.


"How a Father sent His only Son to be our only hope" compresses John's Gospel into a single line, the same claim the Christmas trimmings had been quietly pointing toward the entire time. The closing declaration — "that Jesus is the reason" — doesn't argue with the earlier verses' warmth about family and snow; it just insists there's something underneath all of it worth naming directly before the song ends.

Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team

Lights are twinkling down the block far as the eye can see

And Daddy’s on a mission, he’s got to find the perfect tree

The smell of cookies baking, that can only mean one thing

That it’s finally Christmas


We dust off that old record and sing along with Nat King Cole

Grandpa falls asleep while Grandma tells of days of old

All the crazy family’s come to town and they’re knocking at the door

‘Cause it’s finally Christmas

It’s finally Christmas


We’ve been waiting for it all year long

We feel it in the air and we hear it in the songs

There is peace on earth and no place like home

It’s what the world’s been missing

It’s finally Christmas


Yeah out in Colorado they’re watching snowflakes fall

There ain’t no snow in Georgia, but there’s an ice rink by the mall

No matter where you come from, if you’ve got love you’ve got it all

And it’s finally Christmas


Daddy breaks out the Bible and brings it all back home

We gather to remember the greatest story ever told

How a Father sent His only Son to be our only hope

What the world’s been missing

That Jesus is the reason

It’s finally Christmas

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