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Do you Brothers and Sisters have the Christmas spirit yet? I do not yet this year. Usually I wind up getting in the Christmas spirit maybe a week or so before Christmas, but this year I haven't. I've never really been huge into the whole worldly materialistic thing about which has seemingly become what Christmas is all about.

I know how Jesus feels about the Christmas season. It matters not to Him that we don't have His birth-date right. It's still a day that we take to celebrate His birth on earth.This might sound a bit cliche, but Jesus feels the Christmas season is all about the kids. But not as the world means it when they say that but rather a season in which to teach our kids all about Jesus and His birth and what that that means for us. It IS a day to celebrate and be light hearted and joyful. For we have hope now!

But that ol' Christmas spirit and light heartedness has not came to me this year. I drive around and look at the world and the shape it is in and feel somber. I find myself watching the traffic and people and can't help but have the thought that the majority of those I see will be condemned. I wonder how many I see that are saved and Brothers and Sisters in Christ. I suppose that I should have the Christmas spirit because I have the assurance of salvation but my heart goes out to these people of the world and I feel great compassion for them. I pray for strangers I see at times, asking God to bless them and to forgive them for their sins on the chance that they have not. So perhaps, at least their soul may be safe from condemnation.

I don't want to sound like a downer but I feel for our people and it seems to have overshadowed what should be the light heartedness of the season.

God bless us all.
 
my self i am just getting into it the commercialism drives me nuts our Dollar general store .had hallowen stuff out and the next aisle Christmas decorations .. what the world needs is a Charlie brown Christmas .the reading of the Christmas story .with so much Antichrist spirit out there we focus on that .when the fact is Christmas is in us
26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
 
Do you Brothers and Sisters have the Christmas spirit yet? I do not yet this year. Usually I wind up getting in the Christmas spirit maybe a week or so before Christmas, but this year I haven't. I've never really been huge into the whole worldly materialistic thing about which has seemingly become what Christmas is all about.

I know how Jesus feels about the Christmas season. It matters not to Him that we don't have His birth-date right. It's still a day that we take to celebrate His birth on earth.This might sound a bit cliche, but Jesus feels the Christmas season is all about the kids. But not as the world means it when they say that but rather a season in which to teach our kids all about Jesus and His birth and what that that means for us. It IS a day to celebrate and be light hearted and joyful. For we have hope now!

But that ol' Christmas spirit and light heartedness has not came to me this year. I drive around and look at the world and the shape it is in and feel somber. I find myself watching the traffic and people and can't help but have the thought that the majority of those I see will be condemned. I wonder how many I see that are saved and Brothers and Sisters in Christ. I suppose that I should have the Christmas spirit because I have the assurance of salvation but my heart goes out to these people of the world and I feel great compassion for them. I pray for strangers I see at times, asking God to bless them and to forgive them for their sins on the chance that they have not. So perhaps, at least their soul may be safe from condemnation.

I don't want to sound like a downer but I feel for our people and it seems to have overshadowed what should be the light heartedness of the season.

God bless us all.
this made me think of the popular phrase - WE ARE THE ONLY BIBLE SOME PEOPLE MAY EVER READ

i agree with praying for the lost - the prayers of a righteous person are powerful availing much

i also like to stay filled with God's love which is really HIS presence filling my heart soul mind etc

this makes me spiritually alive and thankful - which makes me more filled with God - which makes me more thankful - and this positive spiral keeps moving upward

this causes the most impact for the people around me - i myself really have nothing to offer anyone - but Christ/God in me is so attractive and blesses others

for this reason when i start thinking of sad sorry bad situations i try to find my way into heavenly realm type of thinking so that i COUNTER bad news with the real power of GOD and HIS good news living brightly in me by the most wonderful Holy Spirit

what i have described is not how i used to be - i used to be easily touched by bad news and woud remain contemplative and prayerful about the bad news/facts

but now i have learned to reverse bad news by being energized by the true fact of God's good news - when sin abounds God's grace so much MORE abounds - when the devil comes into a situation, like a holy flood God raises His holy standard

God bless you my dear friend - you are a blessing
 
Maybe I'll get the Christmas spirit at church this morning, lol. I got invited to church with a man and his family who had come to give me an estimate on replacing my kitchen cabinets and countertop recently. He mentioned something about the Lord so I jumped right on it and we had a nice little talk about our Lord. I love passing on my testimonies to people I meet.

I hope the Spirit of the Lord is there in this church today! I've been to a couple different churches in this town so far, and while nice, I haven't been drawn to join either one. The Spirit of the Lord didn't seem to be there. When I was in Colorado I went into a church there unrelated to a service they put on...and as soon as I stepped foot in the sanctuary, the Spirit of the Lord hit me hard with His presence! I almost hit the floor in that church.

I hope I can find that church here in Canton. I better go, gonna be late.
 
Do you Brothers and Sisters have the Christmas spirit yet? I do not yet this year. Usually I wind up getting in the Christmas spirit maybe a week or so before Christmas, but this year I haven't. I've never really been huge into the whole worldly materialistic thing about which has seemingly become what Christmas is all about.

I know how Jesus feels about the Christmas season. It matters not to Him that we don't have His birth-date right. It's still a day that we take to celebrate His birth on earth.This might sound a bit cliche, but Jesus feels the Christmas season is all about the kids. But not as the world means it when they say that but rather a season in which to teach our kids all about Jesus and His birth and what that that means for us. It IS a day to celebrate and be light hearted and joyful. For we have hope now!

But that ol' Christmas spirit and light heartedness has not came to me this year. I drive around and look at the world and the shape it is in and feel somber. I find myself watching the traffic and people and can't help but have the thought that the majority of those I see will be condemned. I wonder how many I see that are saved and Brothers and Sisters in Christ. I suppose that I should have the Christmas spirit because I have the assurance of salvation but my heart goes out to these people of the world and I feel great compassion for them. I pray for strangers I see at times, asking God to bless them and to forgive them for their sins on the chance that they have not. So perhaps, at least their soul may be safe from condemnation.

I don't want to sound like a downer but I feel for our people and it seems to have overshadowed what should be the light heartedness of the season.

God bless us all.
I have similar thoughts to you Edward. When I am coming home from shopping and it is getting dark, j see the houses with their lights on. I loom and wonder if they know about our Saviour, and I have this urge to get off the bus and knock on the doors and warn them, but I don't do it. I see planes flying over and I wonder who's on them.Wbere are they going? What are going to do when they get there? Do they live the Lord.
I used to attend a church where the minister left his wife and started an affair with a married member of the congregation. She left her husband and children to live with Him. I felt discouraged and thought of leaving. But, I looked around the church and the ministers wife and daughter were singing hymns. Their faces shone with the love they had for God, even though their hearts were breaking. It was so beautiful, I didn't want to leave then.
Like Truthfrees says the holiness you see or feel takes your mind away from the darkness..
 
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Something I always miss after the Christmas season are the Christmas songs we teach our children. So many songs that mingle in the awe of Jesus's birth, or at keast bring in the season with a full sense of celebration that I count towards celebrating Jesus being born.

Don't know if listening to certian Christmas songs will help you Edward but it might. This year for me it's been a little harder to get into the spirit of Christmas for me too. But when I hear some good Christmas praise and celibration music it seemed to help.

Good luck finding a church and church community also.
 
I sort of feel the same way although I'm extremely excited that Christmas Eve is tomorrow. It seems like most of the world has forgotten what the holiday is truly about. :nonono Don't get me wrong, I used to love baking cookies for Santa Claus when I was a kid and got really excited for him to leave Christmas presents underneath the Christmas tree, however I also know that the best gift of all is our salvation which was freely given onto us.



Sad most people forget all about Jesus since it is His birthday that we're celebrating. I also noticed that around Christmastime it seems like mentioning our Savior's name is perfectly alright and that they even play religious Christmas songs on regular radio stations, but after Christmas the name of Jesus seems to have become taboo again. I just really don't get it. :confused



Anyways, also let us not forget that besides the birth of Christ, giving onto others, spending time with our family and friends, and loving each other was what Jesus taught and was all about so I feel that all goes together with celebrating His birth. And I really don't believe it takes that much to give a gift of kindness to somebody else. If only the rest of the world felt exactly the same way I do then there might be peace on earth. Unfortunately that just won't happen until Christ returns. Sad. Really sad. :sad
 
Edward there is something different about this Christmas season. In a sense I am joyful inside as I reflect on God's gift of love through His Son Christ Jesus, but yet find my heart somewhat perplexed as I didn't even decorate this year. I watch the hustle and bustle of people within the commercialism of Christmas like they would wish the day was done and over. Even saying out loud how they hate this time of year. I envision Christ with a tear in His eye saying "If they only knew the love I have for them".

I usually only go out of the house to buy groceries one day a week so I really do not have a lot of interaction with the public like I use to when I was working, but yet when God gives me the opportunity I will witness Christ to others. Some accept it, some are just polite and some just do not want to hear. All we can do is plant the seeds and pray another comes to water until God gathers the harvest.

Like @Truthfress said, WE ARE THE ONLY BIBLE SOME PEOPLE MAY EVER READ. Maybe your and I's perplexities have a certain amount of urgency, especially this time of year knowing Jesus could return at anytime and are we doing enough as a servant of God as I know I could do more and have done more in the past.

I don't know as my heart is perplexed, but yet joyful because Christ is my hearts desire.
 
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