{"id":437,"date":"2008-12-26T10:46:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T10:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/12\/a-christmas-song-from-mark-web.html"},"modified":"2008-12-26T10:46:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T10:46:36","slug":"a-christmas-song-from-mark-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/12\/a-christmas-song-from-mark-web.html","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas song from Mark Weber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I figure most of you are out shopping today, but I thought I&#8217;d share a Christmas song that my friend Mark Weber wrote called &#8220;Who Wants To Cry At Christmas.&#8221; I know most of just just had a few lovely days with family, but there are a lot of people out there who are lonely or without loved ones, and I thought this might be a nice message for you. As Mark sings, <em>&#8220;There&#8217;s still a hope at Christmas, that God will find a way, to meet me in my sadness, and help it go away.&#8221; <\/em><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0wpTLLYqF0I&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0wpTLLYqF0I&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>Mark and Johnny Juarez, an internationally touring Latin-Christian-pop-rock recording artist, teamed up for a series of Christmas in Spanglish concerts this Christmas. &#8220;We sang in both Spanish and English (Spanglish), in a wide variety of venues, including a Presbyterian church in an artsy city neighborhood, a famous chain secular bookstore in the suburbs, a youth-oriented coffeehouse, a soup kitchen, an inner-city Christian Center geared toward kids, and a Pentecostal church in downtown Toronto on the snowiest of snowy nights,&#8221; Mark told me.You can see some clips of those shows on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/primopr716\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Weber&#8217;s YouTube.com page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I figure most of you are out shopping today, but I thought I&#8217;d share a Christmas song that my friend Mark Weber wrote called &#8220;Who Wants To Cry At Christmas.&#8221; I know most of just just had a few lovely days with family, but there are a lot of people out there who are lonely&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-music"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Christmas song from Mark Weber - Gospel Soundcheck<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/12\/a-christmas-song-from-mark-web.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Christmas song from Mark Weber - Gospel Soundcheck\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I figure most of you are out shopping today, but I thought I&#8217;d share a Christmas song that my friend Mark Weber wrote called &#8220;Who Wants To Cry At Christmas.&#8221; 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