Here are 4 reasons for some of their choices. According to the encyclopedia of religion, europeans decorated their homes “with lights and evergreens of all kinds” to celebrate the winter solstice and to combat evil spirits “the druids ascribed magical properties to the mistletoe in particular. 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 This post was first published december 11, 2012
Meet another man who missed the first christmas Matthew 2 tells his story Undoubtedly a lot of planning has gone into your christmas celebration this year Christmas has long been described as a traditional christian festival to celebrate the birth of jesus Many of the customs used in this celebration, however, make us wonder how they came to be associated with jesus’ birth in the first place For one thing, there is the myth of santa claus
What a bizarre idea—not wanting to impose the worship of jesus christ on the day we celebrate his birth! One little boy suggested that the christmas spirit is really contentment, because that’s what you need to be when you don’t get what you want Christmas should be simple, not complex, very simple Christmas should be stripped of all of its trappings so that all that is left is the simplicity of god becoming man That is the only element in the christmas seasonal celebration that has in it any lasting power to effect life. The best of christmasenjoy 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
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