[(JD)]

<font color="green">[b]MERRY CHRISTMAS to all Christians and those who celebrate this holiday with us!

Christ came to redeem us, and to secure our home in heaven. What a wonderful season, what a wonderful SAVIOUR!

[Peacemaker]

Blessed Sky_,

MERRY CHRISTMAS to You, too. Blessed are he that come together in His name.

Thank You for your Christmas blessing. What a thoughtful and gracious gift.

Again, I am grateful and thankful for the safe "return" of your younger son. Please pass on our gratitude for his serving his country for all of us.

Be Blessed,
Sherri
Peacemaker

[nothemama8]

Merry Christmas to everyone
Angie and all

[(JD)]

I think I received something in an email...and I don't know if anyone has posted it here...

it was something about a play at school called CHRISTMAS LOVE and at the end? they children stood, each with a letter of the play name...except one had the letter upside down so it read CHRIST WAS LOVE instead.

To all those who have failed to realize God's love, and to those who forget that THAT is God's ultimate gift, Christ was and is, and always will be LOVE. Accept this wonderful Gift and realize the fullness of God's love. To those who have embraced Christ and His Gift of salvation, may you also linger in God's love.

Merry Christmas!

[SeptemberMorn]

I'll let my signature line speak for itself.

Please look up Sky's post entitled "Mary Did You Know" and read the words to the song. Better yet, listen to the song!

Mary, Did You Know?

[coralproper]

"Merry Christmas Sky"

my kids can't hardly wait...last year they literally got tierd of opening presents and just wanted to play with ones they already opened,my wifes friend has a birthday cake for Jesus,so her children can understand the true meaning of christmas more on their level,kinda cool

Schools are not supposed to teach religion anymore, so that was a neat thing to happen in the play you described, my little girls play mainly consisted of Santa,Frosty the Snow Man and reindeer type songs and dialog
Very fun to see still and made me proud

[altonwoodsdrphil]

what a wonderful season! what a wonderful savior! what a wonderful LIFE! wishing you and your family the true joy of christmas, which is in our glorious hope of the child who was born in that manger...

[(JD)]

Thanks and Merry Christmas ((Peacemaker))) (((nothemama8))) (((Septembermorn))) (coralproper))) (((altonwoodsdrphil)))

Yes, Christ's birth truly changed the world! It affected the calendar: BC "before Christ to anno domini (AD) "in the year of Our Lord" (which even the atheistic Soviet Union's constitution says 1917 A.D. )

After Jesus Christ's coming, abortion and infanticide was ended until "humanism" took hold. After His coming, there became a dignity of labor (Christ was a carpenter) that remains today, and slavery disappeared until the middle ages when ungodly greed took over. In Christ's day 50% of Rome were slaves, until his ministry and afterwards. Then Africa became 75% slaves again until the 1st Great United anti-slavery conference took place, where 2/3 of the attendees were CHRISTIAN MINISTERS.

After Jesus came, hospitals were created. Jesus healed the blind eyes, withered limbs and sick, and lepersariums were created. Orphanages came about after Christ admonished the world to take care of the children!

We, here in the USA, are literate because of Christ. Pilgrims on the Mayflower declared they would establish schools for their children "in order that they might learn to read the Word of God." Among all native born Americans there was less than 1% who could not read and write "neatly." (That would leave many out today. ) The first 123 Universities stated in one way or another "For the glory of God in advancement of the Christian faith." Harvard stated that students must learn to love the Lord Jesus Christ. And people learned because they wanted to read the Word.

Tyranny and depotism are all a part of errant people in many parts of the world. If you visit the Roman Collesium, you will see the massive place where every kind of human cruelty on helpless victims took place. But then Jesus came... now that place is empty..and out in the empty space you see through the columns ... a large cross!

<font color="purple">[b]"Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature. Old things are passed away, behold all things become new. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation." 2 Corinthians 5:17,18

[nowheretorun]

dont know 'bout all that so much, but Merry Christmas

[Rapunzel]

Merry Christmas to everyone here, and your loved ones also. This is a holiday with deep meaning for some of us, while others choose to participate, or not, at many different levels of belief and involvement. May you all be touched by the good will and brotherhood that is intended.

To peace on Earth and in the forums too!

Love to All,
Rapunzel

[(JD)]

(from in His image)

[(JD)]

for this is Christmas!!!

For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior which is Christ the Lord.
.......................................And He shall save His people from their sins.

May we all have peace... in our minds... in our bodys.. and in our spirits...

[1oxbowgirl]

Merry Christmas, to all who visit here and to the Troops and to their Families. Best Wishes throughout the Holiday season. And in the years to come may we find some Peace on Earth, as well as, in our minds.

[Perna]

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Is, was, will be :-) Close enough for childrens' Christmas pageants.

The history of the phrase, "Merry Christmas":

http://www.christmascarnivals.com/ch...christmas.html

[(JD)]

http://thestarofbethlehemmovie.com/ This movie is wonderfully scientific and shows God's amazing-ness! You can read the text, click on setting the stage..and follow along. Be sure to read the footnotes, this will astound you, how the planets matched up etc, how we know what the night skies looked like back in 1 BC etc when Christ was born, perhaps conceived.

Merry Christmas!