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On My Father's Side

Christmas Food Court Flash Mob, Hallelujah Chorus

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To God's Will completely given

His faithful servant

Christmas in heaven

The night before Christmas For homeschoolers

Missing - Presumed Lost

T'was the Night Before Jesus Came

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One of our favorite Christmas hymn

The Christmas Violin

No Room at the Inn

Searching for the 'Perfect Gift'

Should a Christian Celebrate Christmas?

The "Fear Nots" of Christmas

Quotes: Christmas

Searching for the 'Perfect Gift': "It was the week before Christmas. Parking spaces were hard to come by. There were long lines, crowded stores, rude people, and grossly inflated prices. In one long checkout line, one man was heard to say, 'They should kill the guy who started Christmas.' One wise and godly woman in the line said, 'They did -- they hung Him on a cross.'" John 15:20-21

Secularists Assault on Christmas and Christianity: "One of the most effective ways to overturn a culture is not to take it on directly, but to undermine it gradually....For the past half century, there has been a slow but unrelenting attack on the Christian foundations of the United States. First, secularists took prayer out of the public schools, because it 'promoted religion and alienated non-believing children.' ...Then they wanted the study of the Bible taken out of schools, because that 'promoted Christianity....

     "...public monuments listing the 10 Commandments had to go, too, because displaying the moral foundation of Western law somehow endorsed Judeo-Christian religion.....Every year, there are fewer nativity scenes on display."

Scrapping School Religious Holidays Solves Nothing: "Boston University religion professor Stephen Prothero argues that public schools should do away with giving students’ days off for religious holidays because honoring Christian holidays in this manner is unfair to other religions. 'As I read the First Amendment,' writes Prothero, 'using taxpayer dollars to prop up Christianity and Judaism at the expense of Hinduism is unconstitutional." See Establishing a Global Spirituality

Tragedy at Christmas show as actress plunges 25ft to her death in front of horrified audience: "An actress in a Christmas pageant who was suspended 25 feet in the air by an overhead rope fell headfirst onto a concrete church floor and died. Keri Shryock, 23, and two other performers were playing wise men on their way to Bethlehem before about 2,000 spectators during Wednesday night's opening performance at Crossroads Community Church, in Cincinnati. The three were approaching a star when Shryock fell....

    "The church characterized the program as a contemporary Nativity story, said church spokesman Matt Chandler. 'It was a figurative and artistic version of the Christmas story found in the book of Luke,' he said.

    That's so sad. May God comfort her family. But I wonder why these "wise men" were 25 feet up in the air "approaching a star" -- in stark contrast to the actual Biblical account. What kind of message were they teaching?

Obama's Christmas tree has Chairman Mao, transvestite: "The face of China's Mao Zedong, blamed for the deaths of 50 to 80 million of his countrymen, graces an ornament on the White House Christmas tree for President Obama's first holiday season in residence." See Mocking God

Islamic star and crescent join town's Christmas tree: "The decision by a New York village to place the Islamic star and crescent alongside the community's official Christmas tree has a Catholic leader wondering if there are any wise men among the town's leaders.... 'We've decided to go in the direction of being all-inclusive,' [said] Supervisor Reese Berman....'Arab-Americans and Muslim Americans are Americans and respect other religions,' said Laila Al-Qatami, spokeswoman for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Washington."

      That may seem true right now, but in America -- as in the UK and the rest of Europe -- there is increasing pressure to accommodate Islam and its restrictions on free speech and Biblical Christianity. See the next link:

Saudi Interfaith Parley a Front for Global Law against Blasphemy: "The proposed law would crush religious freedom.... 'The lofty-sounding principle is, in fact, a cleverly coded way of granting religious leaders the right to criminalize speech and activities that they deem to insult religion.... Saudi Arabia does not permit the public practice of any religion except for Islam."

Amsterdam's gay Christmas angers Christians: 'By portraying Joseph and Mary as homosexuals, a twisted human fantasy is being added to the history of the Bible.'.. .A few dozen visitors wandered through the Pink Market past stalls selling leather goods and Christmas cards with gay themes on a downtown street known for its gay nightlife.... Frank van Dalen, chairman of Pro Gay, which organized the event, said gays were not satisfied with being tolerated, but wanted to be 'socially accepted as an indivisible part of society.'" Mocking God and His Guidelines