We choose our greatest Christmas ever

We all make this Christmas season exactly what we want it to be. We don't have to get sucked in to whatever we think stresses and oppresses us. 

This was the very sign

So, fix your eyes on Jesus, pray, and let the Spirit guide you to your greatest Christmas ever! 

When I was maybe around 10 or 11, my Mom and I were Christmas shopping around the Old Federal Way Shopping Center across from People's Bank.  There was a drunk man walking around us and a sign about X-mas that upset her.  The X-mas sign commercialized Christmas. I couldn't figure out why people would walk around drunk in a public place.

Steel Lake Presbyterian Church, now

I have rich and wonderful memories of family and church celebrations around this awesome season.  From about 1961-1978, our Federal Way,  family attended a late night Christmas Eve Service at Steel Lake Presbyterian Church, visited our neighbor family who never attended church, and back home opened one present before heading off to bed.  

Our FW home now

On Christmas morning, Mom (and Dad) made us open presents slowly and watch one another.  Like the kids, Dad got a big kick out of it all....then, it all ended so quickly and then we ate breakfast and we were off running the rest of the day. 

 

 

What are your cherished Christmas memories?

So, what should we make of celebrating the birth of Jesus, what we have always known as Christmas?

Charles H. Spurgeon

On December of 1855 Charles H. Spurgeon preached on "The Incarnation and Birth of Christ" from Micah 5:2. His opening words were these: "THIS is the season of the year when, whether we wish it or not, we are compelled to think of the birth of Christ. I hold it to be one of the greatest absurdities under heaven to think that there is any religion in keeping Christmas day. There are no probabilities whatever that our Savior Jesus Christ was born on that day.

"I wish there were ten or a dozen Christmas-days in the year; for there is work enough in the world, and a little more rest would not hurt laboring people. Christmas-day is really a boon to us, particularly as it enables us to assemble round the family hearth and meet our friends once more. Still, although we do not fall exactly in the track of other people, I see no harm in thinking of the incarnation and birth of the Lord Jesus. We do not wish to be classed with those--

"Who with more care keep holiday
The wrong, than others the right way."