Tag Archives: Christmas
Keep Christ in Christmas with Holy Pals Pajamas
For our secular culture, Christmas time is about gift giving, gathering with family, Santa Claus, candy canes, and gingerbread houses. And while these are fun gifts to be enjoyed, we as Christians are called to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas.
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Tagged Christmas, faith, Holy Pals
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Cozy Earth: A Luxury Gift for the Holidays
With the holiday season fast approaching, many people are starting to wonder what they should get their loved ones for Christmas. Unfortunately, so many of the luxury brands we enjoy in America come from companies that don’t prioritize being both high-quality and ethically made. Not so for Cozy Earth.
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Tagged Christmas, cozy earth
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The Missing Peace
Even the most secular of Christmas season greeting cards can be found promoting the idea of peace. Often seemingly quoting the angels message to the shepherds announcing the arrival of the Messiah found in Luke 2. That message in brief proclaims, “Peace on earth. Goodwill to men.”
The Irony of Contemporary Christmas
As a Christian and a pastor, I have spent a lot of time getting to know God. It goes with the territory! But the more I understand the goodness of God, the more difficult it is to understand the hatred so many have for God, especially as we consider that Christmas, “the most wonderful time of the year” is rooted in a knowledge of God’s grace.
Posted in Faith, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty
Tagged Atheism, christian, Christmas, evolution, faith, The Irony of Contemporary Christmas
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Help Resurrect Easter
So the grandest of all Christian celebrations is upon us. This year, Friday April 7th is Good Friday. Sunday April 9th is Easter. Or Resurrection Day as some prefer to call it. The two dates vary from year to year. Why? It’s, well, complicated. Why do these two occasions give us the grandest of our faith celebrations as Christ followers? Because we get to color Easter eggs? Uh…wrong answer.
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Tagged Christmas, Easter Sunday, Good Friday, Gospel, Michelle S. Lazurek, Resurrection Day
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“The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!”
Next to Jesus Christ and “love,” Christmas is probably the most popular theme for music. For most Americans, Christmas has been, as the song says, “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!” But why is this so?
May God Have Mercy Upon Us and Our Troubled Country
With our nation on a razor’s edge, the days are getting shorter — and darker.
In fact, the winter solstice is coming in a couple of weeks on Dec. 21, marking the shortest day on the calendar and thus the darkest time of the year.
In fact, the winter solstice is coming in a couple of weeks on Dec. 21, marking the shortest day on the calendar and thus the darkest time of the year.
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Tagged A.W. Tozer, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Blind Watchmaker, Christmas, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Mother Teresa, Phillips Brooks, Richard Dawkins, Salvation Army, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Tipper Gore, vote fraud, winter solstice
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So Much More Than Glitter and Gifts
My wife and I recently took our four children to see the Festival of Lights in East Peoria. If you’ve never been, it’s said to be one of the Midwest’s “largest lighted holiday events.” Some individual displays (such as the steam train) are comprised of tens of thousands of lights, with the total number of lights running into the millions.
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! May the peace and love of “the baby born in Bethlehem” be in your heart this season and throughout the year. It is an amazing gift to be able to freely celebrate our faith and to proclaim the birth of our Savior who came to give life and give it abundantly (John 10:10).
AFA Identifies the Combatants in the ‘War on Christmas’
Last month a Woolworth store in Germany made headlines in the UK and in the U.S. for proclaiming itself to be a “Muslim” store, and therefore it would no longer carry Christmas items. There’s more to the story – as the local management of the store defended itself by saying that there was such little demand for the Christmas products, they decided the shelf space was better used with other items. You can read about it here, here and here and decide for yourself what to believe.
Christmas as controversy is not new, of course, as the debate over …
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Tagged Christmas, Dennis Prager, Donald Trump
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