One positive alternative for your family Christmas celebration is to try a home-made Christmas celebration. In recent posts I have discussed how commercial Christmas has become with some ideas on how to rediscover Christmas in a fresh way. I think this is a positive option and one that my wife and I will be implementing […]
An idea that might be worth considering while trying to rediscover Christmas is to celebrate a non-commercial Christmas. Celebrating a non-commercial or gift-free Christmas would arguably remove a lot of the distractions that surround Christmas in America. Christmas is an overly commercialized holiday by any account. No, I am not suggesting all Christians should boycott […]
Christianity is incarnational. One of the unique claims that Christianity makes is that God became man and walked among us. “The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.” (John 1.14 WEB)
One of the exciting […]
I have compiled a list of common Christmas mistakes. This list is no doubt incomplete and suggestions and additions are welcome. This list represents some of my observations on the Christmas season. My observations of some common Christmas mistakes are (in no particular order):
Forgetting that it is more blessed to give than to receive
Forgetting whose […]
Christmas season is upon us. As nativity sets go up and Christmas carols are sung popular Christmas misconceptions abound. Perhaps it should not be surprising that a society that prefers the pagan aspects of Christmas over the spiritual aspects would not bother to correct errors in the story. But I would think that the Christian […]
If Christmas isn’t really a Christian holiday then should Christians celebrate it? If Christmas used to be a Christian holiday but has become hopelessly secular should Christians celebrate it? These are questions that Christians debate about today. We have looked at the history of the Christmas celebration in earlier articles in the Christmas Rediscovered series. […]
There has been quite a culture war brewing for some time now over whether Christmas is a Christian holiday or a secular holiday. There is further debate over whether Christians should celebrate Christmas at all if the origins of the holiday are not Christian. The historical evidence suggesting that the Christmas holiday is actually a […]
Why do we celebrate Christmas in December if Jesus was probably born in the spring? We do not know exactly when Jesus was born since the early Christians placed very little value on birthday celebrations. The early Christian theologian Origen argued in AD 245 that Jesus birth should not be celebrated “as if he were […]
I have been reading the Word of Mouth Ministries blog for a little while now. Iggy contributes some great thoughts to the emerging discussion. Iggy just started a new series on emerging church values this week that includes some good thoughts. Check out the site. Iggy’s heart for ministry and Jesus shines through in a […]
As we prepare to celebrate Christmas it seems we have lost the Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah promised so many years in advance. Jesus, the hope of generations, has been forgotten. As we prepare to celebrate his appearance among us the Savior is increasingly marginalized. The one who offered himself as the ultimate gift […]
