So start off concerning\u00a0a post about the flop\u00a0of a movie\u00a0 Saving Christmas: \u00a0A friend\u00a0 on Facebook \u00a0got it right about\u00a0 the sad state of Christian\u00a0 entrainment. I been bother by the state of Christian\u00a0 entertainment. I listened to a lot great sacred classical music. A will be going to Bach Christmas oratorio at ST. James Lutheran. The great thing about this is not just a performance but part of a vesper service. I always wonder where are today’s evangelical Messiah, Requiem mass and Great mass in C ( my favorite Mozart piece)?\u00a0 Where are our Handel, Mozart, Bach, Mendelssohn and even Benjamin Britten? The problem is today is the Evangelical church exchange artistic\u00a0 excellence and art criticism\u00a0 for pragmatism and a poorly\u00a0 written chick track. As a result we have lame praise\u00a0 songs and Saving Christmas.<\/p>\n
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Let me digress. Sorry Cameron, Christmas does not need saving; we can’t save ourselves so Christ did for us on the cross.<\/p>\n
see John 16 for context to John 16: 29-33
\n“29 His disciples said, \u201cAh, now you are speaking plainly and not using figurative speech! 30 Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God.\u201d 31 Jesus answered them, \u201cDo you now believe? 32 Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. 33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Christ has overcome the world by his death and resurrection for or sins. in spite of the secularization of Christmas or more serious tribulation or persecution (like brothers and sisters in Christ in Syria and Iraq, and Africa). We need not to worry about the Christmas season or a store clerk telling me Happy Holidays, or ban the Nativity scenes for public spaces; they bong on or church\u00a0 property not in the public\u00a0 square less\u00a0 the Nativity scene\u00a0 are\u00a0 like\u00a0\u00a0 casting pearls among the swine. Let put aside such worldly foolishness.<\/p>\n
But wait there more:<\/p>\n
Remember being told by an atheist of fundamentalist\u00a0 who doesn\u2019t\u00a0 celebrate Christmas because\u00a0 some Romans or\u00a0 Emperor Constantine ripped and try to\u00a0\u00a0 Christianize a pagan holyday. Well\u00a0 as posted in an article at cripplgate: it a myth. As I thought earlier the dates do no match up in history.<\/p>\n
Is Christmas Day Rooted in Paganism?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n