I’ll Tell You What…

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By the time this article gets posted it will be Christmas Eve. This day is a reminder of the eminence of Christ’s arrival through the miraculous virgin conception and subsequent birth. A time of rejoicing ocurred after the Lord’s birth. This was the arrival of God’s Salvation. Why shouldn’t there be rejoicing?

Sadly, though, this rejoicing has faded for many people due to a multitude of factors. I’ve been on the borderline this season and I think I’ve finally figured it out…

Max Lucado is one of my all-time favorite Christian authors. In his book, A Gentle Thunder (Copyright 1995 Max Lucado), Max gives us a glimpse of how Christ affects us during Christmas…

At 11:16am today, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit Califonia shaking residents from LA to San Francisco. Two people died in the quake and about 10,000 home were without power.

Pray for the people affected by this earthquake.

PNC Bank has released their annual costs of the 12 Days of Christmas. Total traditional shopping costs is up 18.8% this year over last year and Internet shopping for the items is up 1.3%.

This year’s total traditional shopping cost is $65,264.28 and the Internet shopping cost is $101,206.09.

It is rare to see a holiday advertizement these days without a business promoting a sale using the term “Xmas.” Many Christians say this is the secular world removing Christ from Christmas. Where did this term come from and is it really removing Christ? …

It is a good day! Saddam Hussein was finally captured ending an era of suppression and repression of the Iraqi people. Let’s pray that this event will be pivotal in the reconstruction and self-governmental transition of Iraq. May God bring a peace and a calmness to that region that no one can fully understand.

Another storm has blow in bringing snow and rain. For now it’s just snow and that’s just fine with me. We should only get around 2 inches. Tomorrow, it will probably turn to rain as the temperature rises. It should be pretty messy.

I can’t wait until February 25, 2004 rolls around. Why? Because, Mel Gibson’s movie The Passion of the Christ opens. I don’t know if there will be a showing in my area but if there is, I’ll be there.

There is tremendous potential for reaching people with the good news of Jesus Christ with this movie. Go to the website and check out the trailer, website graphics, and ecards. I am really excited about this movie.

An amazing thing happened today in the world of mathematics: a number expressed as 2 to the 20,996,011th power minus 1, which has 6,320,430 digits, was discovered to be prime. This may not hold any significance for you directly but to mathematicians, cryptogists, musicians as well as others, this is big news…

Nathan Hart over at Spera in Deo posted a comparison of Bob the Bachelor and Martin Luther. The resemblance in uncanny. Ha ha ha ha

The Christmas Story, as recorded in the first two chapters of the book of Matthew, is rich with drama that unfolds in a straightforward way. There exists great joy (Matt 1:20, 21 and Matt 2:10) and sadness (Matt 2:16-18) in the telling of this miraculous event. This event changed the very way we track time and yet we still continue to live our lives as if it never happened…