Primarily for the audiences she attracted with Age to Age, A Christmas Album features well-known sacred and secular standards alongside original songs, and tracks from this album continue to receive airplay to this day during the holiday season on both secular and Christian radio stations.

Although not as successful as Age to Age, A Christmas Album still peaked in the Top Ten of the Christian chart and spawned a Top 20 Christian radio single in "Emmanuel."

40 in the 2001 book, CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music.

The original CD issue had a manufacturing flaw that caused a small, but noticeable jump during the transition between tracks 3 and 4.

The album was also released as a promotional only vinyl picture disc version in a die cut sleeve.