RISE UP!: December 2008

Myspace Layouts

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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Go Tell It On The Mountian!

As I have been working on sermons and reading scripture this month in preparation for Christmas one theme keeps jumping out at me....we need to be sharing Christ. We are commanded to do it. We are privileged to do it. Yet like a bunch of Scrooges we refuse to do it. Often times I wonder what lost people think about a Christian...who believes in heaven and hell...that doesn't share their faith.

I found a video on the blog page of my good friend Matt Johnson that might help shed some light on that question. This is a video of a an atheist. Listen carefully!!

The Big Day

Parties, gifts, shopping, cooking...there is a lot that goes into celebrating Christmas with friends and family. We work and work and go and do... yet I find myself wondering if it is all worth it. Really Christmas day is quite anti-climatic to say the least. Everyone gathers around after a huge meal and we begin to pass out gifts and one by one the tree starts to look lonely. After all the smoke clears what are you left with? You are left with empty boxes and paper all over the floor. Even the wonderful food you just ate has become leftovers. Its like coming down off the high you get from a drug....that's really what the commercial Christmas spirit is anyway a drug!

Then December 26th arrives and everyone is so tired and worn out and all the excitement is dead. I wonder what the Shepherds or the Magi would say is they could see what our Christmas celebrations have become? Would they see a lot of hurried people frantically working for a day that quickly passes or would they see people who truly understand and appreciate the Christ of Christmas? I pray it would be the later and not the former. I am seeking to truly worship this year. I hope you will do the same.

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