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Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Thursday, December 25, 2025

May God help us

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Having recently heard a Texas preacher and politician cite the story of Mary and her choice as support for abortion (yes, you read that rig...

A Christmas story

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...too good to not be true. Two days before Christmas, a woman frantically shopped to get some last-minute gifts. She had her four-year-old ...
Wednesday, December 25, 2024

The Babe of Bethlehem

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Henry Beer wrote the following Christmas hymn. Beer was an elder of the Apostolic Christian Church , and according to the historian Perry A...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

X-mas or Christmas or both?

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There are Christians who spend a great deal of time saying, “Keep Christ in Christmas” or “Put Christ back into Christmas.” (Other Christian...
Monday, December 25, 2023

The Nativity

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Henry Beer , an elder of the Apostolic Christian Church , wrote the following Christmas hymn. It was first printed in his book My Garden of ...
Saturday, December 23, 2023

’Twas the Night Before... What?

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“This volume is like a beautiful old picture which has come down to us in a state of extraordinary perfection.” Clement Clarke Moore (1779-...
Sunday, January 08, 2023

The Truth Sent From Above

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I recently ran across this traditional English folk carol online, and thought I would share it here. According to the Hymns and Carols of Ch...
Friday, December 09, 2022

Goodwill, love, and humility

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“At this point, America effectively has two month-long national holidays: Christmas and ‘Pride.’ The first evokes goodwill, love, and humili...
Monday, December 20, 2021

I’ll be home for Christmas

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6 links containing arguments for and against Christmas for the Christian:  Disputing the Pagan Roots of Christmas -- “Regardless of the act...
Friday, December 25, 2020

God in cradle lies, A Psalm for Christmas Day Morning

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“A Psalm for Christmass day morning,” by Thomas Pestel (circa 1585-1659), appeared in his Sermons and Devotions Old and New... in 1659, in...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

There’s a song in the air

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Josiah Gilbert Holland wrote the hymn beginning with the first line “There’s a song in the air.” “There’s a song in the air” excellently e...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Why Mary? (Repeat)

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Why Mary? ( Repeat from December 2005 ) Why did God choose Mary to be the mother of Jesus? Most look for something in Mary who is or for...
Tuesday, December 25, 2018

José y Maria

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José y Maria by Everett Patterson is an unique drawing imagining Joseph and Mary in a modern setting, “inspired by a number of evocative ‘i...
Saturday, December 22, 2018

Christmas quotes

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The posting of quotes by human authors does not constitute agreement with either the quotes or their sources. (I try to confirm the sources ...

Believing the Unbelievable, and other "Christmas" links

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The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts link...
Friday, December 21, 2018

Should Christians celebrate Christmas?

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Q . Should Christians celebrate Christmas? A . Christmas is an annual celebration commemorating the birth of Jesus, usually on Decembe...
Sunday, December 24, 2017

From “Christmas” to the “Cross”

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Many people love babies and stories about babies. It seems to me that to many folks the “Christmas” story is an enjoyable baby story that ...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

Politically-Correct-“Christmas” version

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Luke 1:26-35 in the PCCV (Politically-Correct-“Christmas” version of the Bible) 26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel went to the city...
Friday, December 30, 2016

Christ Mass on December 25

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Following is a brief statement of opinion why December 25 was set as the celebration of the birth of Jesus, by Elder Grady Dearman. For more...
Friday, December 25, 2015

A Christmas "meditation"

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I am to a large degree ambivalent about Christmas. Perhaps it's easy to have mixed feelings about a holiday that brings out such wild ex...