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doulos said:
I've read a lot about Christmas so far this year. It's pretty different from a reformed viewpoint. What do the Highway folks think about it?

I can only give a somewhat uneducated answer. In my opinion the holiday is pagan. I prefer that it be keep out of the church. Preaching on the incarnation is proper and acceptable.

Just to share - My first couple of years as a professing Christian I spent my Christmas eves handing out tracts at Cardinal Bernadine's "Holy Name Cathedral" in Chicago Illinois (house of Baal).

Some fifteen or so years later (2006) we put the verses of 1 John 4:9-11 in large letters surrounded by lights on the patio doors of our apartment. We have had the opportunity to show and read them to five of our neighbors and many more have read them on their own.

I've never had a tree nor do I want to and by the way more Christians worship the television than a tree and more days out the year.

P.S. I also confess that I kissed my mother and said the merry C-word last year and also gave a couple of toys to the local fire department this year.

1 John 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.