For his weekly monologue UK pundit Neil Oliver discusses the insufferable misery of those who try to cancel Christmas. Mr Oliver shares the importance of the meaning of Christmas in an eloquent and powerful manner.
The message is uplifting and needed, especially at such an uncertain time for so many around the world. We must never forget our Christian roots and how deeply humanity is connected to its history. YOU are the light he speaks of in the final sentence. WATCH:
[Transcript] – For the second year in a row, the Christmas trees are going up early round my way. More and more households that would, in the world of before, have waited until the second or third week in December before decking the halls … have already gone the whole nine yards with the trees and twinkly lights. We are doing likewise in our house. I won’t lie … I love it. Every bit of it.
I love Christmas … always have and always will. In every conceivable way, Christmas is light in a time of darkness and for many of us, that light has never been more welcome and so can’t come soon enough.
Especially since the festival is once again under attack by the joyless division. In line with what has become a tradition of the season in benighted Britain, yet another bunch of interfering, patronizing preachers of the witless cant of “diversity and inclusivity” have decided it’s their turn to take a pop at Christmas.
Bristol-based Watch This Space – describing themselves as an Inclusion Consultancy … Heaven help us all … have scored some free publicity by calling on organisations to “rethink Christmas” on account of how all those of other faiths feel left out in December. I really don’t think those of other faiths feel left out at all. I am certain the vast majority of those of other faiths are perfectly fine with Christians enjoying Christmas … the same way I have no issue whatever with Diwali and Eid and the rest of the religious festivals that genuinely matter to those of faith … and that it is only those that could … and deliberately would … start a fight in an empty room that want to persuade everyone that Christmas is EX-clusive and only bad news.
For generations every school in Britain has put on a nativity play. The youngest among us are invited to play the parts of Mary and Joseph … the angel … the shepherds, the three wise men. In every school hall is recreated a scene from a village in the Middle East. The people being enacted by children are people of the Middle East. How inclusive and diverse, you might say.
It’s always Christianity that the nouveau bullies target – in the same that all bullies have always done – which is to say “single out the one that won’t hit you back.” The tolerance of Christianity and Christians has been a red rag to a bull – and for years it has been open season on Christmas on the utterly spurious grounds that someone somewhere might be offended by cards, carols and Santa Claus.
But hey – it’s only Jesus – worshipped by two and a half billion Christians as divine, the Son of God – so take up the slings and arrows and do your worst.
That latest call to cancel Christmas came hard on the heels of heresy – spiteful, childish mewling by a junior research fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge university about Jesus having, and I quote, “a trans body”. The sticky-palmed adolescent piffle was then backed up by the Dean of the college, so ensuring more headlines at the expense of followers of the world’s largest religion.
All of this latest mischief-making is just more of the same – which is to say the determination of the empowered elite systematically to remove every last foundation stone of Western civilisation … while simultaneously showing us … reminding us … who they think is boss. Having excited themselves by stripping away, under the egregious wrong of lockdown, so much of what it has meant to be human and alive in this part of the world, the usual suspects are determined to keep going until the job is done. Christianity, and the family, are still standing, and so the attacks must continue.
Lockdown was about draining the joy out of life, every last bit. It was about keeping people apart and alone. It was a relentless campaign of fear by authority figures who felt no fear themselves – because they knew there was nothing TO fear – and so broke all their own rules. Now it’s about bidding farewell to the very stuff of life – warmth in winter, nourishing food. Stop driving to save the world. Stop flying to save the world. How long before they come for the twinkly lights and crackers as well? The powers that be are about nothing less than making life dull and flat for we proles.
The truth is that none of this is to be taken lightly, far less ignored. The relentless erosion of Christmas, and Christianity itself, is essential for those whose mission it is to unmake Britain, and the west. It is nothing less than the deliberate snuffing out of the light of the world.
That anyone would ever seek to silence those who want to celebrate Christmas is beyond sinister in my eyes – because the story at the heart of Christmas is also the story at the heart of humanity and the best of human nature.
It is a simple story about a family – indeed the making of a family by the birth of a baby.
It is about a baby born into the most humble of circumstances, in a barn for animals, dependent upon the kindness of strangers.
Why would anyone of good and honest heart want to take issue with the simplicity of the family, and all that the family has meant and continues to mean? Except of course that the family is the ultimate obstacle for those intent on resetting the world – away from the human and in favour of the machine. Again, and again those who have it in mind to establish centralized, top-down control of populations have targeted the family as the final stumbling block in their path. Always, however, the family has prevailed, because the desire for family life is innately human.
The way things have been in the west for two thousand years is a direct and undeniable consequence of the overarching influence of Christianity. Our ethics, our morality, the laws by which we live, commitment to the sanctity of the individual … all are founded upon the Christianity of our forebears.
In more recent centuries deluded and dangerous people believed they had the wit and the power to set aside Christian ethics and morality and to replace them with their own ideologies. I invite you to consider the worst horrors of the 20th century and notice how well those experiments went. 150 million dead and counting.
What is being inflicted on us now is the death of a thousand cuts. One thing after another reminding us of who and what we are … where we came from … and why … is being debased, devalued, rewritten or erased by others who think they know better. Our heritage, our history, our culture, our society, our communities, our identities as men and women, as sovereign individuals … all of it is being undone, taken away, memory holed. This is deliberate and must be resisted at all costs.
Friedrich Nietzsche was among the most articulate to lament the death of God in the west:
God is dead and we have killed him – he wrote – who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
And there’s the rub, prophesied by a philosopher 140 years ago … the coming of those idealogues of today – who talk of hacking humans, growing babies outside the body of the woman, of mixing humans with technology – who really do believe the time has come for them to assume the power of gods.
Worst of all of the anti-human behavior is the turning upon children, the exploitation of those most vulnerable and deserving of our protection. I don’t mean to imply this behavior is anything new – rather, it is simply more blatant and shameless. We catch glimpses of the danger – most recently in the ad campaign by fashion house Balenciaga that set tiny children in sexual contexts – and we dismiss such threats at our ultimate peril. From drag queen story time to questionable sex education in classrooms, the normalization of the sexualization of children is well under way. For those in search of a hill to die on, might not the defence of the innocence of children be the one?
The Christmas story is fundamentally about hope. For human beings there can be no greater gift or reason for hope than the birth of a child. There can be no greater imperative than the urge to protect that child, all children … against all threats.
During lockdown, rules were put in place to keep families apart, to separate children from grandparents. They are still pushing their jabs on children. Attempts were even made at that time to cancel Christmas – not that me and mine paid them a blind bit of notice. Faith leaders not worthy of the name complied with diktats that closed churches and so denied needful people access to the comfort and sustenance of holy places when they were most wanted.
I keep mentioning the thousands of people who have written to me during the past two, getting on for three years. In the run up to last Christmas, the emotion of it all was almost overwhelming. My family and I received piles of Christmas cards from families across Britain and around the world. Messages of love, solidarity and determination from people who might otherwise have been strangers to us, but who needed to share Christmas and so shared it with us, the joy of the Christmas message in what might otherwise have been an unremittingly dark time.
Over and over, we were reassured by all those – the majority of the senders in fact – who, like us, had identified a fight between good and evil … between light and dark. We were left in no doubt, by letter after letter, and card after card that the medicine that kept those people well – in every way that really mattered – was their faith in something bigger than themselves, something transcendent.
The central message of Christianity is so simple it can be summed up in a single line:
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son … so that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Has there ever been a more hopeful message? Believe … or don’t believe … but the Christmas story is undeniably a message of hope and family and love, and about the arrival in the darkness of a bright and warming light. It is worth remembering that the light is always there, even if it is out of sight.
I think about the words that, according to the legend at least, were scratched into the wall of a basement by someone hiding from tyranny during World War II. I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when I do not feel it. I believe in God, even when he is silent.
In the northern latitudes people have sought light in the darkness of winter since a time beyond the reach of memory. Millennia before the coming of Christianity there were fires kindled and lamps kept lit in defiance of the dark and cold. Always the promise, held in human hearts, that with patience and fortitude they would see the return of the sun.
This year the dark and the cold are being deliberately intensified by the stated objectives of our so-called leaders. We are told we must have less light, less warmth. We are told these are among the prices we must pay … to win a war … to save the planet … Now is the time to kindle lights and keep them lit.
Forty years before the birth of Christ, the pagan Roman poet Virgil wrote lines about the birth of a boy, a Saviour, who would grow up to be divine and save the world. Virgil has been seen by some as a prophet predicting the birth of Jesus. He was sensing the rising of the son from beyond the horizon. Virgil’s poem, written around 38 BC, is a message of hope, of the inevitable and imminent coming of light into a darkened world.
Here’s the thing: we need Christmas, and the hope and joy of Christmas, more now than ever.
Light whatever lights you can – even the glow of a single candle can be seen for miles.
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Decommercialize Christmas! Specifically Woke Corporations.
Need Jesus more than ever.
Remember the children who thought Melania was an angel?
Melania is beautiful.
I saw another posting where someone suggested reading 1 chapter in the book of Luke a day, starting on December 1st. There’s 24 chapters, so it brings you right up to Christmas giving you the story of Jesus. It really puts Christmas in perspective. Jesus is the reason for the season. ✝️🎄
Lights are up outside, Tree and decorations up day after Thanksgiving.
My Nativity set is up as well… with little battery string lights
to light it up..Enjoying the Christmas Cheer.. Went to a church
Christmas Fair today..They can only ruin it for us if we
let them..Merry Christmas!!!
I started today! Will finish tomorrow.
Nativity was first thing I took out.
I am usually one of those that Neil Oliver speaks about that usually waits until second week.
Not this year.
For starters, Neil Oliver is a treasure !
The Church holds the period before December 25 as a period of reflective, penitential preparation. That’s the ‘old’ Christian way. When the Nativity Scene, the tree, the lights, go up, they don’t come down until Epiphany…Christmas Season does not end on the 25th as the Church celebrates a Thanksgiving period.
This culture began to ignore Advent, the preparation period, because Christmas became publicized with unrelenting of media ads, as a gift giving time...encouraged by commercial interests who care NOTHING for Christmas only buying, buying. Example, Macy’s Christmas parade. …..emphasis on Black Friday, store gift suggestion displays before Thanksgiving
so for us
Yes, Advent is the time of penitential waiting for Christ’s arrival. When people take down the Christmas decorations the day after New Years it makes my heart sore. This is when we should still be celebrating still until Epiphany (Gentiles are exemplified by the arrival of the Wise Men).
His Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service recently tried an evangelist for quoting Scripture to two lesbians who no doubt baited him. The case had to be dropped because…unsurprisingly..the two accusers disappeared into the British woodwork.
The government prosecutor said it was clear that certain parts of the Bible “were not relevant for modern society”.
Oh my….
And what did the Archbishop of Canterbury allow on this news? Not a single word.
Neil is correct. This is Britain today, a Christian nation no more.
Provided that the hideously exorbitant energy prices which are deliberately being imposed on the people I came to know and love don’t preclude festive lights, I pray that Britain as seen from space will be so bright that Almighty God Himself will see it.
And I pray the voices of all observant Christians will be heard loudly in joyous unison welcoming the Son of Man, our long promised Saviour, our only mediator and advocate, Christ Jesus.
Merry Christmas to all, especially tonight to tue British residents in these beloved Branches. God sees you, God hears you, and Almighty God our Father will be with you always.
Thank you Betsy,
As a U.K. born and raised individual your sentiments are much appreciated.
We live in a community that is home to a large amount of Sikhs, and Chinese.
Many Sikhs I know personally are terrific family folks, great neighbours and respectful of tradition.
Many put up lights, and get into the spirit.
We have two seemingly wealthy Chinese on our small block.
One attends a local Christian church..a church that is well attended any Sunday I happen to walk by.
Both homes are all “ lit up” and put our home to shame.
Fortunately our older son lives next door to us, and he and his wife have “ done the business” and their home is well decked out for Christmas.
The White libs around us denigrate this special time.
For any Sikh readers “ Sat Sri Akal”
Cheers to all.
Bless you, Dekester.
Somerset Maugham said once that some people are born in the wrong place, and that if they are fortunate they will find the place where they should have been born (paraphrased). I felt instantly at home in North Wales. And I was graciously accepted as a local…you have no idea what a high treasured honour that was for me.
I grieve for friends and family there and what is being done to every Brit, no matter what part they are in. It is the home of my heart and always will be.
Merry Christmas my friend. I wish for you and all your family and mates, in Canada and in Scotland, better times and His peace everlasting.
(Your newest grandbairn’s first Christmas, right? Might have to put a protective barrier around the tree. Make those precious memories, my friend💖)
Great stuff Betsy!
We are having a terrific time already.
Cheers to you and all that is dear to you.
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Thank you so much, dear sir.🌲😘
Sikhs have had a difficult life in various places. I found them to be as you did…Nice people.
The Lefty surpasses love being miserable.
Agreed..this last week we had a significant snow storm. ( an unusual occurrence) commuters were stuck for hours on our roads.
An elderly Sikh couple without any fanfare walked up and down stuck commuters offering tea and pastries.
Interestingly though a significant number of the second and third generation immigrant Sikhs are “ players “ i the drug trade.
Cheers!
I love me some Betsy Jones!
Preach!
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Thank you Mr. Oliver.
Merry Christmas to all!
The family is a threat to power and control of today’s society.
My Hope is in Jesus! You give me hope as well. The message of Christmas is Hope for the World. A baby wrapped in swaddling clothes laying in a manger, Christ our King! Continue with sharing the message of Christmas. Never give up!
Jesus is the light, that is beyond doubt.
We sold over 152 christmas tree (U-Cut) since Dec. 1st, estimating from this over a 1000 plus by Christmas. We average between 450 and 500, its a small Christmas tree farm. We are getting worried all the mature tree will be gone this year and will have to skip a couple of years to let the other small trees time to mature.
People are defiantly sick of the sour mood in the country. I can tell.
Maybe its because South Dakota didn’t get closed down or probably the people in the area, but it sure is Christmas in this neighbor for miles around. From the day after Thanksgiving the homes started lighting up.
The homes are are all lighted up, some are even better then the ones on TV…Every house has lights of some sort.
It was that way last year and seems even bigger this ywar.
CHRISTmas greetings from Sioux Falls.
Merry CHRISTmas Rurik —Keep Warm.
How lovely!
What we really need is another Independence Day as the current one seems to be becoming defunct.
Retired Magistrate here: Tomorrow we have our annual Christmas Open House with between 25 and 30 people attending: church members, neighbors and other friends. We provide food, drink, a well decorated house, fireplace going, lovely Christmas music and laughter. We have been hosting this for at least 30 years, even during the first year of the scamdemic.
I have noticed, at least in our neck of the woods, more Christmas lights this year and people are putting them up earlier. The Columbus Zoo is not far from us and they have a Christmas Festival of Lights now through the first of the year. So far, it has been really well attended.
People want joy and hope back in their lives. Christmas is the promise that through JESUS CHRIST joy and hope are available to all who believe in HIM and accept HIM as Personal Savior. No, joy does not depend on your situation; joy depends on the ONE you have put your trust in: JESUS CHRIST.
So, put up the tree, lights, turn on the Christmas Carols, hug your loved ones and celebrate the birth of the greatest gift of all: JESUS.
I watched two Christmas parades tonight in my area.
I have another to watch tomorrow.
The first one had double the number of entries in the parade. Nice crowd turnout.
Love the Parade of Lights here in Rapid–But why does it seem to get colder on the Sarturday of the Parade.
I’m used to the cold but not when you watching a parade outside for over an hour.
https://youtube.com/shorts/GfTtnibaEMA?feature=share
The fundamental doctrine of the Christian religion, is the extirpation of hatred from the human heart. It forbids the exercise of it, even towards enemies. There is no denomination of Christians, which denies or misunderstands this doctrine. All understand it alike—all acknowledge its obligations; and however imperfectly, in the purposes of Divine Providence, its efficacy has been shown in the practice of Christians, it has not been wholly inoperative upon them. Its effect has been upon the manners of nations.
It has mitigated the horrors of war—it has softened the features of slavery—it has humanized the intercourse of social life. The unqualified acknowledgement of a duty does not, indeed, suffice to insure its performance. Hatred is yet a passion, but too powerful upon the hearts of Christians. Yet they cannot indulge it, except by the sacrifice of their principles, and the conscious violation of their duties. No state paper from a Christian hand, could, without trampling the precepts of its Lord and Master, have commenced by an open proclamation of hatred to any portion of the human race. The Ottoman [Muslim, not “Islamist”] lays it down as the foundation of his discourse.
– John Quincy Adams
Peace on Earth. Goodwill to all men.
You are the Light in the world!!
Matthews: 5:14
Beautiful article! I love this time of year. Thank you for posting Beautiful Melania’s picture. She made Christmas very special at the White House. Merry Christmas Everyone!!
THANK YOU NELL OLIVER! And Sundance for posting his message. Thank you!
My neighbors here in far west PA are lighting up the night with Christmas the likes of which I haven’t seen for years! It is a joy for me to see. I’ve got to get busy doing so too. Enough of the HUMBUG already.
Favorite movies re the Christmas season are any and all versions of the “Christmas Carol,” A particular favorite is the version with George Scott, Then “Its a Wonderful Life.”
My father loved Christmas time more than anyone else I’ve ever known in my lifetime. I had no qualms about climbing up the big pines to put up his big beautiful incandescent light strings. I was an idiot to give those lights away because they were “energy inefficient.” I rue the day.
Enjoy this December – the return of the LIGHT.
Melania’s decorations were so beautiful. Dr. Jill’s are tacky. It looked like she bought last year’s at the Dollar Tree.
What a dear and genuine soul Neil is.
He himself is such a warm and heartening light to us all.
On Thanksgiving I went to Golden Corral’s buffet. I went to the Golden Corral on Thanksgiving…Was really shocked by the number of people and families there. Great food and great people, such a great friendly crowd and servers giving up their holiday for us. As I was standing in line a small voice said to me play/pay it forward. I look behind to see just a couple standing there so no big sweat.
Well within a few minutes they spilt off to the other line and behind me is a family of 4 adults and 2 kids. Grandma, grandpa, their son-in-law, and daughter with two grandkids. So, I’m like in my head talking to the Lord saying there’s now 4 with 2 kids. But I kept getting this voice saying “play it forward, I will take care of you.
I quickly wrote a note on an old receipt that said “Add 4 more adults & 2 children to my tab for the people behind. Please don’t tell them who God Bless.”
I went to the Golden Corral on Thanksgiving…Was really shocked by the number of people and families there! Great food and great people, such a great friendly crowd and servers giving up their holiday for us. As I was standing in line a small voice said to me play/pay it forward. I look behind to see just a couple standing there so no big sweat. Well within a few minutes they spilt off to the other line and behind me is a family of 4 adults and 2 kids. Grandma, grandpa, their son-in-law, and daughter with two grandkids. So, I’m like in my head talking to the Lord saying there’s now 4 with 2 kids. But I kept getting this voice saying “play it forward, I will take care of you.
I quickly wrote a note on an old receipt that said “Add 4 more adults & 2 children to my tab for the people behind. Please don’t tell them who God Bless.” I don’t need a pat — I just did it.
Reason I’m telling you all is you don’t really know me, so I can.
Hey you don’t have to use money to play it forward, just use yourself, make eye contact giving people a smile when you are out maybe even greeting them with a hi &/or Merry Christmas, help a senior get their groceries to the car, or maybe help that person with a few kids get to the car, while you’ve got that shovel out snow shoveling your driveway maybe do some elderly’s drive way. who lives in the neighborhood.
Hey you never know that person you smile at, say hi and/or Merry Christmas just might really make that person’s day because they’re having a really bad day or time of it.
Yes, we need to spread more than just a bit of kindness and love in this old world of ours, not just at Christmas time but all year round. However, remember it does not need to be the Holiday season to be nice to others.
As Bing Crosby’s song “The Secret of Christmas” says
That’s wonderful k
We should always take the time to listen to God, especially at Christmas.
All Treepers, consider visiting your local St Vincent DePaul, or similar organization
this season. Drop by, or call, and ask them what they need.
The homeless often need NEW sleeping bags, jackets and gloves for the winter.
They wear out their gear very fast.
Being homeless, cold, and wet really sucks.
The homeless are Gods children too.
Be kind, and think of others who aren’t in our position
this Christmas.
And all year round….
In a world marred by hate and indecency, being a Christian is the most rebellious act of all.
Love God first.
For what it’s worth, I think that the greatest men and women that have ever lived are here now.
It is clear the most devious, selfish, willfully ignorant, manipulative, and vile men and women that have ever lived are here now.
Amen to the Christmas message. We need to grab hold and keep the focus daily beyond December 25th. A positive perspective can change much in life. Even in the most unsettled times.
Though I do not think of myself as a overly religious person, and not a devout fanboy of Jordan Peterson always, his dialog on the Joe Rogan show about how the bible is a fundamental book for western society held a lot of light in my opinion and its relevant to what Neil Oliver illustrates here as well.
This evening I was extra careful in driving cross town. Its 12/3rd and Christmas lights are out in full force . I’m so easily distracted by the profusion this year. We all know why it is.
This world is literally and Spiritually growing darker by the hour.
I was recently encouraged by the uproar in my building of 55 and older residents when someone had complained about religious expressions in common areas. So we took a vote, and people were vociferous to keep things like nativity displays and crosses at Easter.
I’m in charge of decorating so I consider it a ministry to brighten my neighbor’s day.
My little southern Oregon town had its tree lighting last night.
The wife and I brought our kids, 10 and 7, and it was amazing.
We skipped the Dutch Bros line, and went right to the stage
where a group of carolers were leading about 1000 people in song.
My little one on my shoulders was screaming out lyrics.
Santa arrived in a fire truck, right in front of us.
He walked right up to us and shook our hands
then went up on stage and made a nice speech.
The 40 ft Oregon Blue was lit, and we waited for the crowd to thin.
Then we made our way to the tree and took our family Christmas pictures
that we will send to our relatives and friends.
All the while we saw and talked to coaches, teachers, coworkers, friends, etc.
After we made our way out of the throng, we walked to our favorite local
hamburger place for dinner. Even though it was packed, we got a table in 10 minutes.
We saw more friends and acquaintances there.
Thats our small Oregon town at Christmas.
This simple homespun experience is so lovely it brought tears to my eyes.
May God richly bless your family this Christmas, though it sounds as if you are already amply blessed by your community.
I hope some of the carols were those we used to sing and enjoy, actual Christmas hymns such as “Silent Night,” “Joy to the World.” I once went to a Catholic seminary just to hear real Christmas carols and was shocked to find “Sleigh Bells Ring . . .” etc. were about half of the offerings.
You can take everything from a Christian and leave them destitute and oddly, the joy and comfort of God in their heart, mind and soul will only increase.
What is the Destroyer and the destroyers to do? This much I know, God finds their attempts pathetic – laughable perhaps as they actually think they are somehow going to be able to be gods and ruin us. Not me and my house. Joy until the end and then forevermore – no matter what.
The first Christians had it much harder. They were persecuted in a much more physical way. The trials they were subjected made them stronger mentally. They had to meet secretly.
Today all the haters have is sneers and nasty words. No Christians are being thrown in lion dens. Our problem is our extreme comfort. We need to be hassled greatly to bring out our fighting spirit.
Today on PBS “Great Pwrformances”, there were two Christmas programs featuring Christmas songs..m Sarah Brightman, and then Mariah Carey. Made me want to puke.
Christmas is a holy season of good timing, and should be sung in a reverent manner (IMO).
Brightman is just a wonderful voice, singing wonderful songs, devoid of love, wonder. Adoration, etc. Stale.
Carey is even worse, as she always makes about her and how sexy she is. Just puke.
So sad. No Jesus anyway.
I left both my fully decorated, inside the house, Christmas trees up all year, this year. They are a source of joy and comfort to my husband and me. We turn their lights on at night.
Our church has a festival of lights from Dec. 2nd to January 1st. The whole church area was lit up because families took sections of it to decorate the trees and bushes for the celebration of Christmas. So many lights!! It is a reaffirmation of the meaning of Christmas: The Light of the World, Jesus Christ, is born! Families came to see the lights turned on and the children ran around with their light sticks. There was hot chocolate for all. Our young people’s chorus sang carols. The love of Christmas can only be snuffed out IF we let it. Merry Christmas!!
Defending the innocence of children must be the line in the sand!
We decorated right after Thanksgiving. We even covered the pine tree in our front yard. Our neighbors said we were the first.
Spreading the joy is the most important thing we can do.
Our older neighbor gal is home bound and doesn’t sew but she vexed that the dress she had ordered was too long. I fixed the hem. Such a small thing but she lit up like a Christmas tree.
When I look out my front window at night at the apartment building in front of mine, I can see three Christmas trees already up and twinkling. Mine has been for days, and my nativity scene is set on the breakfast bar where it’s plainly visibly in the living room. It’s Christmas already in my household, and interestingly, I’m not the only one in the complex early, this year.
very good take on the US situation.
I discovered this site and it is quite good.
Enjoy!
https://www.remnant-tv.com/video/754/the-devil-s-triumph-america-s-war-on-marriage-family?channelName=RemnantTV
Amen!
Now, more than ever, Christ’s light is defiantly displayed, irresistibly seen and lived and loved by those who claim Him in the very face of impotent forced darkness!
This has become one of my “new” and most cherished Christmas traditions for all reasons. It is a welcome addition to the beautiful and beloved Christmas carols still sung among those of us who love and celebrate His deigning to come among us — “Immanuel,” meaning literally, “God with us”! — and even let us murder Him on that cross, just so we, whom He loves, can spend the rest of eternity with Him in His presence, in His inextinguishable glorious light, where darkness can no more penetrate! Please enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmx–WjeN7o
Kaylee has grown up, but this small snapshot of her younger striving, overcoming her autism to sing the story of, the praises of, Jesus and what He means, just always humbles me and touches my heart. As another poster echoed Neil’s imperative to protect our children from Satan’s attacks, this is vital.
Her determined and heartfelt rendition of this version of Leonard Cohen’s song, “Hallelujah,” turns the original lyrics back to actually being about Jesus Christ Almighty God and what that word, “Hallelujah,” really means: “Praise the LORD!” Yes, praise our loving and merciful LORD for what He did to save all who choose to accept His gift of salvation from the sins that would otherwise consign us to “an” eternity of abject darkness separated from Him, into the light of eternal life in His glorious presence.
“Praise the LORD” indeed, and forever and ever!
Our Christ is, as still another poster pointed out, God’s greatest gift to us all, and wherever we may find ourselves, His gift of eternal salvation is for all of us, all over the world, in all times, in all places. There is no power that can or will prevail against Him. There is no darkness where His light cannot shine.
And we know the end of the Book, we have His assurances, His presence, and in Him, our Life Eternal. Merry/Happy Christmas! Joyful and triumphant!
‘At that time the Feast of the Dedication (in Hebrew the word ‘dedication’ is Hanukkah) took place in Jerusalem; it was winter, and Yeshua (Jesus) was walking in the portico of Solomon. John 10: 22-23
Habukkah means dedication. As you just read Yeshua kept this feast. This is the season to (re)dedicate ourselves to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Holy One of Israel. Blessings to everyone.
Sorry that should be Hanukkah
Bravo, Mr. Oliver. Bravo, thank you, and may our Lord bless you.
Your expressed thoughts are a balm so needed in this world!