Waiting for Christmas (1 of 3)
Series: The Characters of Christmas
Scott Maze
Luke 2:21-40
It's a difficult year to celebrate anything. Yet, Christmas is a season of hope in the midst of a really challenging year. The hope of Christmas is irrepressible no matter what you're facing. There's a buoyant hope to Christmas that continues to surface despite challenges.
Some years ago, The Cincinnati Post decided to keep all the bad news off its front page for one day. They decided to only put the good news on the front page of the newspaper. What would make the editors do this rare thing? They did this in honor of Christmas.
Christmas' buoyant hope seeps through everything and moves through any obstacle.
Marxist Lenin issued order in 1919 that if anyone didn't show up to work on December 25 because of the Christmas holiday they would be shot. The people turned to Christmas to gather hope and warmth in the midst of challenging times. Lenin knew this and hated it.
The hope of the Christmas message moves us; it's irrepressible.
Now, the celebration of Christmas has grown through the years. Like the layers of an onion, the traditions around the Christmas holiday has grown. If you could travel back in time, Christmas would look really different down through the centuries! The earliest Christians really did not celebrate Christmas. These men and women of faith were more interested in celebrating Easter and the resurrection than they were the birth of Christ. It was not until people began to deny if Jesus really came in human flesh, that Christian churches began to place up nativity sets.
And the way we celebrate Christmas has changed down through the years. The modern picture of Christmas where Christmas trees are put up and presents for children under the tree really began to take shape in the middle part of the 1800s. It's here that a painting of England's royal family was reprinted in New York. The painting showed the family around a Ch ...
Series: The Characters of Christmas
Scott Maze
Luke 2:21-40
It's a difficult year to celebrate anything. Yet, Christmas is a season of hope in the midst of a really challenging year. The hope of Christmas is irrepressible no matter what you're facing. There's a buoyant hope to Christmas that continues to surface despite challenges.
Some years ago, The Cincinnati Post decided to keep all the bad news off its front page for one day. They decided to only put the good news on the front page of the newspaper. What would make the editors do this rare thing? They did this in honor of Christmas.
Christmas' buoyant hope seeps through everything and moves through any obstacle.
Marxist Lenin issued order in 1919 that if anyone didn't show up to work on December 25 because of the Christmas holiday they would be shot. The people turned to Christmas to gather hope and warmth in the midst of challenging times. Lenin knew this and hated it.
The hope of the Christmas message moves us; it's irrepressible.
Now, the celebration of Christmas has grown through the years. Like the layers of an onion, the traditions around the Christmas holiday has grown. If you could travel back in time, Christmas would look really different down through the centuries! The earliest Christians really did not celebrate Christmas. These men and women of faith were more interested in celebrating Easter and the resurrection than they were the birth of Christ. It was not until people began to deny if Jesus really came in human flesh, that Christian churches began to place up nativity sets.
And the way we celebrate Christmas has changed down through the years. The modern picture of Christmas where Christmas trees are put up and presents for children under the tree really began to take shape in the middle part of the 1800s. It's here that a painting of England's royal family was reprinted in New York. The painting showed the family around a Ch ...
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