- The Best of Christmas - Grace to You
The Best of Christmas Like many of history’s most enduring stories, this one took the most unlikely of turns A virgin woman bears a child, promised by an angel and conceived by God Born in a crowded town near Jerusalem, the infant has for His nursery a stable—His makeshift crib, a feeding trough But shepherds worship the boy, and a powerful king fears Him And when He has become a man
- Holidays and Celebrations - JW. ORG
Holidays and Celebrations The fact that Jehovah’s Witnesses do not participate in most holiday observances and other celebrations can be somewhat perplexing to a teacher We hope the following helps you to understand why we take the matter so seriously Perhaps to a greater extent than you may have realized, many holidays and the customs associated with them have a non-Christian religious
- The People Who Missed Christmas: Herod - Grace to You
This post was first published December 11, 2012 -ed Meet another man who missed the first Christmas: Herod Matthew 2 tells his story He was
- The People Who Missed Christmas: The Innkeeper - Grace to You
Some were sentimental, saying Christmas is a family time, a time for children, and so on Others were humanistic, seeing Christmas as a time to celebrate love for one’s fellow man, the spirit of giving, and that sort of thing Others were crassly hedonistic, viewing Christmas as just another excuse to party
- The Theology of Christmas - Grace to You
Here is the theology of Christmas, okay? The theology of Christmas My intention today is to be straightforward and just tell the real story of the birth of Christ and have you make no mistake about its genuine significance In Philippians chapter 2, verse 5 ends by identifying Christ Jesus Then Christ Jesus becomes the theme of the next few
- The True Christmas Spirit - Grace to You
If you’re like me, you have heard the world’s comments and evaluations of this time of the year And one of the phrases that you hear a lot is “the Christmas spirit ” We need to have “the Christmas spirit ” And of course, I began to think about that, being somewhat analytical Just what is the Christmas spirit? And I suppose there are a lot of potential answers to that question To
- The Ugliness of Christmas - Grace to You
That’s the meaning of Christmas And no matter what you may think and what sentiments you may have and what warm feelings you might have about Christmas, unless you understand the ugliness of your own sin and embrace Jesus Christ, who alone by His death and resurrection can save you from that sin, you don’t have any connection with Christmas
- The People Who Missed Christmas - Grace to You
The Buddhists miss Christmas, they're worshipping the wrong god Oh, Jerusalem, they worshipped the right God but in the wrong way and they missed it And you can be a protestant and you can be in a church and miss it I couldn't help but notice they sent clergymen, a couple of protestant clergymen to Iran to minister to those people
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