Jude 2

Tomorrow we will have our annual candle-light family communion service. This tradition is one which has grown in our church and the people look forward to it every year.

We will sing Carols. We will have a program to illustrate the Christmas story as it is read by a professional speaker....our own Craig Klope. Howie (my associated pastor) and I will don our robes and look very somber.

Our families will come forward together and take communion, light their candles and then Howie and I get the opportunity to pray for each of them individually. That is the highlight of the day for me.

Christmas has been for the most part, hi-jacked by the left. It is very distressing to me to see how we have allowed this. Tomorrow, I will take it back from the leftists, the atheists, the agnostics, those who would pervert it....and I will give it in big doses to my flock.

LONG LIVE CHRISTMAS ....LONG LIVE THE REASON FOR IT ALL!!!

ALL HAIL JESUS CHRIST .......

Dr. Ron wrote:Christmas has been for the most part, hi-jacked by the left.

Actually, it has been hijacked by commercialism, and commerce is as much the domain as the right as the left. Christians, by the way, are every bit the accomplices of the hi-jacking.

Have a nice communion service. (By the way, communion isn't Christmas, and Christmas isn't a New Testament ordinance.)

Tim Elston wrote:

Have a nice communion service. (By the way, communion isn't Christmas, and Christmas isn't a New Testament ordinance.)

No, but is a really nice time to cease from the comercialism and do what communion is about. Reflecting and remembering Him (Jesus).

I like Dr. Ron's tradition here. When I pastored, on thanksgiving day I would open the church for couple hours in the morning and then in the evening. Families would come to the church and I would serve the head of the household and then they would serve their family. I look back and those where some very fond memories.

Merry CHRISTmas to all from my house to yours! God bless every one with HIS spirit of giving for others. I pray each of you fully experiences his free gift of salvation!

TIM,
I knew I would get on your bad side again....

Do you honestly think I don't know who hi-jacked Christmas? It has been so commercialized it is sickening.......except at least the stores went along with it being Christmas....not the "Winter Holiday". It was the LEFT who made it "politically incorrect" to utter "Merry Christmas" or to have nativity scenes at school plays, or erected in public places. It was the LEFT who have tried to erase the scriptural references to the HOLIDAY! I am not nearly as dumb as you would have me appear. I may not hold to all your political leanings, but I do know who really hi-jacked the HOLIDAY....or HOly DAy!

And if you ever heard me preach, you would hear me state quite frequently that Christmas is not required nor even implied by the Lord that we remember his birthday. The Ordinance of Communion was to signify his death burial and ressurection. I believe I know this quite well. But you know what, neither did he prohibit us from giving Him a birthday party....and being the sanguine that I am, I love to party....

So LONG LIVE CHRISTMAS.....LONG LIVE JESUS CHRIST.

Dr. Ron wrote:I knew I would get on your bad side again....

Do you honestly think I don't know who hi-jacked Christmas? It has been so commercialized it is sickening.......except at least the stores went along with it being Christmas....not the "Winter Holiday". It was the LEFT who made it "politically incorrect" to utter "Merry Christmas" or to have nativity scenes at school plays, or erected in public places. It was the LEFT who have tried to erase the scriptural references to the HOLIDAY!

I don't think it is accurate to say the left has opposed Christmas. If you go to Chicago, you'll find millions of Democrats who celebrate it and have no problem with it in public or on state property. The opposition to Christmas comes from a small subset of the left, so it's not accurate to say the left per se opposes it. There are probably conservative agnostics, atheists, and pagans who oppose it, too, but probably fewer in number.

As far as saying "Merry Christmas" to people; as long as our national holiday is called Christmas, that's what I'm going to say to people, and if they don't like it they can take it up with Congress.

paul wrote:I like Dr. Ron's tradition here.

I do, too.

How did everything go?

Wonderful!

Read my experience here.

It was HILARIOUS! I completely lost it! You need to read Danny's blog for the details.

But the service was awesome! Loved every minute of it!!!!! Even us cracking up laughing at an inappropriate time. My family has a history of that! Funerals, death, falling, you name it.. we crack up laughing. This time was no different.

Here are the dark pics I took. I didn't want to use the flash because it would have killed the mood. So.. I took a bunch and weeded out the good to decent ones. Here they are....











Danny wanted to call this one... "The Tribe has spoken..." haha. Ben blew his candle out for 10th time and we refused to light it again.