[Faith-talk] Fwd: SF Daily Devotional - Christmas Message

[eric calhoun]

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> Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 05:17:49 -0500 (EST)
> From: Streaming Faith Daily Devotionals
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> To: chargerdodger at yahoo.com
> Subject: SF Daily Devotional - Christmas Message
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> Tuesday, December 25, 2007
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> Christmas Message
> Chance Mason 
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> Dear Streaming Faith Family, 
> 
> Once again this year we have seen story after story
> in the news media about the so-called "War on
> Christmas." Increasingly, our culture seems to want
> to move away from the cherished traditions that we
> all have grown up with. Who could have imagined that
> it would ever be considered offensive to wish
> someone a Merry Christmas?
> 
> So how should we as God's people respond to this?
> Some have seen the situation as a call to battle;
> they are out there protesting each and every
> politically correct move against Christmas. Some are
> just resigned to the fact that these are the end
> times and our culture is moving further and further
> from God.
> 
> But at the end of the day, the "Christmas Wars" are
> nothing new. Over two thousand years ago the town of
> Bethlehem was too busy, too preoccupied with current
> events, and too wrapped up in business as usual to
> notice that the central event in all of human
> history was taking place right under their noses in
> their little village. There was not only no room for
> Jesus in the inn, there was no room for him in their
> schedules or in their hearts.
> 
> It's the same thing today. Most people around us are
> too busy, too preoccupied, too wrapped up in the day
> to day events of their lives to make room for Jesus.
> 
> That's where you and I come in. It is up to us to be
> the bearers of good news - just like the angels and
> shepherds were in Bethlehem that first Christmas. We
> need to tell our friends, our neighbors, our
> co-workers that unto us a Savior is born!
> 
> I heard the story of a small church's Christmas
> program, complete with angels with tin foil halos,
> shepherds in their bathrobes, and a baby doll in the
> manger. The little girl playing the angel came in
> early to make the announcement, so none of the other
> characters stopped to listen to her as they were
> supposed to. After a couple of times of timidly
> saying, "I bring you good tidings of great joy...
> unto you is born a Savior" she finally got very
> frustrated with the whole process and yelled at the
> top of her lungs, "HEY!! UNTO YOU A CHILD IS
> BORN!!!!"
> 
> Sometimes it might seem that we have to yell to be
> heard above all of the clutter that accompanies the
> Christmas season, but we don't. Did you know that
> despite all of the commercialism and secularism that
> has come to surround Christmas, it is still the time
> of the year when people are most sensitive to and
> open to spiritual matters? That gives us a great
> opportunity to share the real good news of Christmas
> with those around us.
> 
> Thank you for your support of Streaming Faith. We
> are honored and blessed to be a part of your life
> and trust that you have been encouraged and uplifted
> in your walk with this Lord. 
> 
> From all of the Streaming Faith family to your
> family, we wish you a blessed, joyful Christmas and
> a prosperous and Happy New Year!
> 
> 
> Chance Mason is President of Streaming Faith
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I'm sorry if this is so late, but this message is very
timely.  Even the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa
is a holiday in which "the second" Christmas is
celebrated.  So from house to yours, Happy Holidays,
(Feliz Navidad; La Mejor Navidad,) and a prosperous
New Year!

Eric Calhoun


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