There are some churches that have an extra service if Christmas doesn’t fall on a Sunday. I’m not bothered when a church doesn’t do that. In fact, growing up, my family only went to church on Christmas if fell on Sunday. What I don’t understand is why a church would cancel a Sunday morning worship service just because it falls on Christmas.
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Christmas spirit is in full force in my house, right now. My last day of work ended at 4:00 this morning. The tree is up. The shopping is almost all done. The baby is having fun looking at and playing with all the decorations. And most of all, we’re listening to Christmas music.
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There are two key words in the title of this chapter: ugly, and consumerist. When I first read the title, I was expecting it to focus on the latter, which would have been a good post this week, coming out of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and continuing into the holiday shopping season. Unfortunately, the chapter focused more on the former.
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It cracks me up every year when I see it. A house on my street, in years past, has had a nativity scene, an inflatable snowman, and an inflatable Santa. What was funny about it was that the Santa was malfunctioning in a way that made it look like Santa was bowing down to the nativity.
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Every year at this time, I hear a lot about having the holiday spirit. Movies are made. Stores are decorated in mid October. Songs are played on the radio before Thanksgiving, and advertisements abound trying to get people into the holiday spirit. This year, I started wondering, what the holiday spirit actually is.
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