The Aftermaths of Christmas

It is two days after Christmas and most likely, regardless of your age somebody has already asked you what you got for Christmas; and if not it is only a matter of time before it happens. So allow me to ask you a slightly different question: What did you get for Christmas that [...]

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Christmas Carols as Worship

A few weeks ago I heard a pastor during Advent complain about how her favorite radio stations had all gone to all Christmas music all the time before Thanksgiving. To which I was glad to hear that I wasn’t the only one who has been fed up with Christmas music or should I say [...]

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Is Advent the solution the church needs?

Every year it seems as if the Christmas season becomes less sacred and more secular even among Christians with the increasing focus on the counterproductive culture wars. Instead what if more Christians and Churches focused on Advent as the central focus of the season? Then again chances are most American Christians unless they [...]

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Commercialization of Christmas

It seems that every year there are complaints about how commercialized Christmas has become at the expense of the spiritual. The traditional mottoes such as “Jesus is the reason for the season” and “Without Christ there would be no CHRISTmas” seem to surface each year but don’t seem to make much of a difference beyond [...]

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How much is Christmas Missing the Point?

This year I am really starting to despise a good number of Christmas carols that keep on popping up all over the place. I guess it doesn’t help that pretty much all of the radio stations in my area going to all Christmas music 100% of the time, and that a few of jumped on [...]

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