Removing Christmas (and Everything Else) from the School Calendar
by Mark MovsesianThe Board of Education’s decision to remove Christmas from the calendar has only succeeded in creating religious conflict. Continue Reading »
The Board of Education’s decision to remove Christmas from the calendar has only succeeded in creating religious conflict. Continue Reading »
In many churches, Christmas Eve is the first time we hear the Gloria since Advent began. We have been awaiting the coming of glory, and now here it is, the angels singing Gloria in excelsis: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace (Luke 2:14). Both the song and the occasion speak of a new . . . . Continue Reading »
My friend’s six-year-old son wanted to be God the Father in the Christmas pageant. He reasoned that he was too old to play the second person of the Trinity, whose part in any case had been assigned to a doll. Continue Reading »
Have there been good Christmas rock songs? I mean Christmas music here, not happy holidays fare like Rockin Around the Christmas Tree, etc. The classical canon is of course full of beautiful evocations of Christs birth, the annunciation, the flight to Egypt, etc. And then . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s easy to step back and denounce the excesses of the Christmas season: the orgy of spending, too much food, too much drink, too many parties, and expensive ski vacations that bring aching credit card hangovers. Easy, but mistaken. Continue Reading »
It’s His party, but you can come if you want to, even if, like a football poseur at a Super Bowl party, you forget the cause of the fun.Christmas is not for Christians, it is for the Lord Christ, and Jesus is merry. He loves all people, so if you are not a Christian: “Welcome to the . . . . Continue Reading »
My normal inclinations lead me to conclude 2001: A Space Odyssey. But today my opinion has changed. No longer is it a Star Wars or Star Trek movie. Not one of The Matrix trilogy. Nor is it a “B” movie with Leslie Nielsen. Nope. None of the . . . . Continue Reading »
A meditation on what the incarnation means for you and me:An unspeakably great, unexplorable divine mystery is at the bottom of all this. God’s holiness and righteousness must shut the doors of heaven to us sinners, and He knows that neither we ourselves nor any creature in heaven or on earth . . . . Continue Reading »
This is the final post in a twelve part devotional commentary on “O Holy Night.” See the introduction here.Christ is the Lord! O praise His Name forever,His power and glory Evermore proclaim.His power and glory Evermore proclaim.The carol ends on a note of proclamation, its fourth . . . . Continue Reading »
This is Pastor Paul Gerhardt’s great Christmas hymn. It first appeared in a collection of hymns published in Leipzig by Johann Crüciger in 1653, with the tune that Crüciger specifically prepared for it. The hymn is a sermon on the meaning of Christmas, and a deeply devotional . . . . Continue Reading »
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