- Holidays and Celebrations - JW. ORG
Holidays and Celebrations The fact that Jehovah’s Witnesses do not participate in most holiday observances and other celebrations can be somewhat perplexing to a teacher We hope the following helps you to understand why we take the matter so seriously Perhaps to a greater extent than you may have realized, many holidays and the customs associated with them have a non-Christian religious
- Why Don’t Jehovah’s Witnesses Celebrate Christmas? - JW. ORG
Get the facts: Do Jehovah’s Witnesses celebrate Christmas? What do they believe? Here are 4 reasons for some of their choices
- Christians and Christmas - Grace to You
Christmas presents a conundrum to many believers Do you withdraw from the world and its materialistic excess at this time of year? Or do you lean
- The Truth About Christmas - JW. ORG
The Truth About Christmas DO YOU care about spiritual truth? If so, then perhaps you have asked these questions: (1) Was Jesus actually born on December 25? (2) Who were the “wise men,” and were they really three in number? (3) What sort of “star” led them to Jesus? (4) What does Santa Claus have to do with Jesus and his birth? (5) How does God view the Christmas custom of giving gifts
- The Mystery of Christmas - Grace to You
As you know, we’ve been in a series in Galatians, and we’ll hold off on that until next Lord’s Day And this morning, just to think a little bit about the Christmas season as we live through it again this year, what comes to my mind is how enigmatic Christmas is, how paradoxical it is, how contradictory Christmas is I looked up the word “paradox” knowing that it comes from two Greek
- No, Thats Not the True Meaning of Christmas - Grace to You
Most popular Christmas traditions are less than 150 years old One such tradition, dating back to Dickens’s time, is the sentimental exploration of the question “What is the true meaning of Christmas?” The true-meaning-of-Christmas meme even has its own Wikipedia entry
- When Was Jesus Born? | Bible Questions - JW. ORG
Since there is no evidence that the birth of Jesus Christ occurred on December 25, why is Christmas celebrated on this date? The Encyclopædia Britannica says that church leaders probably chose it “to coincide with the pagan Roman festival marking the ‘birthday of the unconquered sun,’” at the time of the winter solstice According to The Encyclopedia Americana, many scholars believe
- Six Ways to Miss Christmas - Grace to You
Over-familiarity with Christmas truth can breed a stony heart You had better respond while your heart is soft, or your heart will become hard and you won't have the opportunity to respond (Proverbs 29:1)
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