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Post by luv2pray2 on Dec 21, 2007 19:58:23 GMT -5
ALEX AND I WOULD LIKE TO WISH EVERYONE A HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON.
LUV, DIANE AND ALEX
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Post by bryan_s on Dec 21, 2007 20:40:13 GMT -5
:)THANK YOU Diane & Alex! MAY YOU AND YOURS HAVE A VERY HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON, ALSO. May you continue to keep your eyes on Jesus. I am glad that you are happy and content in your service to our Lord and Savior. May we all keep looking up. Your Friend, Bryan
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Post by Richard McFarland on Dec 24, 2007 3:20:41 GMT -5
I would like to wish all a very Merry Christmas!
The Holiday season would not be possible without Christmas and there would be no CHRIST mas without Christ. The world may have some priorities mixed up. The world very probably has the wrong DAY by a half a year or so. The world has turned the celebration of the Birth of Christ into a marketing plan complete with advertising, CHRIST mas sales and office parties. The world has begun, for the sake of being "politically correct," to take the very name away for the celebration of His wondrous birth.
Without the birth of Christ there could have been no perfect life, no perfect example, no Death on the Cross to take away our sins and make us worthy to stand before God.
Any person who believes in the Life, Ministry and Death of Christ MUST NOT forget the Birth of Christ. Christ's birth was celebrated from that first day. His birth should be a time of Worship and giving rather than a day of celebrating crass commercialism. Matthew 2:1: Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 2: Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.Matthew 2:11: And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshiped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.It's a little unfortunate that as professing Christians we seem to hold ourselves a little too aloof from the "world" and it's traditions while clinging to our own such as women going out two and two or mid-week Bible studies, each very fine and proper in their respect to preaching Christ and learning more of Him together.
Christmas is a day of Worship of Christ from the beginning of His life on earth. The giving of gifts to other Christians, friends and family shows in ourselves the selflessness of Christ and the wonderful thought that it is better to give rather than receive.
To do this and to Worship Christ on the day set aside for Him as the day of his Birth in light of little history of the actual date is an act of Faith and Love.
Remember, the wise men came "into the house" to visit and worship Christ. They missed the actual day also and we read of no Spiritual concern for these men. The remembrance and the act of worship are of the most importance to God.With True Love for Christ,
Richard[glow=red,2,300]MERRY[/glow] [glow=red,2,300]CHRISTMAS![/glow]
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