"Are you ready for Christmas?"
"Are you having Christmas this year?"
"No."
To the Lord I do not regard the day of Christmas:
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day [alike]. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
He that regardeth the day, regardeth [it] unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard [it]. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
---ROMANS 14.5-6
And I am fully persuaded in my own mind about this:
http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/resource/xmass_celebrate.htm
Some say: "O come on Dave! You don't celebrate Christmas? The birthday of our Lord Jesus? There's something wrong with you....are you off the deep end with religion now?...blah blah blah..."
For those who measure their decisions by other men or notable "pastors" who have more credibility than I have since I am not a "man of the cloth", read what Charles Spurgeon had to say concerning Christmas:
C.H. Spurgeon on Christmas…
I found these quite interesting – two quotes from one of the most respected historical Christian theologians and authors – Charles H Spurgeon.“We have no superstitious regard for times and seasons. Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or in English; and, secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and, consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority.” (Charles Spurgeon, Sermon on Dec. 24, 1871).
“When it can be proved that the observance of Christmas, Whitsuntide, and other Popish festivals was ever instituted by a divine statute, we also will attend to them, but not till then. It is as much our duty to reject the traditions of men, as to observe the ordinances of the Lord. We ask concerning every rite and rubric, “Is this a law of the God of Jacob?” and if it be not clearly so, it is of no authority with us, who walk in Christian liberty.” (from Charles Spurgeon’s Treasury of David on Psalm 81:4.)
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