MERRY CHRISTMAS To all !

The following is a copy of an email that has been going around it it Ben Steins commentary about Christmas and the holidays. I am sure most of you have seen it but it is worth seeing again. To anyone who is offended by this please realize that speaking for myself saying Merry Christmas to someone should never be deemed an insult. When I say MERRY CHRISTMAS it is meant as a wish of good cheer for a holiday that means the world to me, the birth of Jesus. I will not, nor should anyone ever feel guilty for wishing good tidings to someone. If someone wished me Happy Hanukkah I would be happy thank them and wish them a Merry Christmas. If hearing Merry Christmas bothers anyone get over it.

Now on to Mr. Steins comments he says it much better than I can.


Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart:


I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores. They never know who Nick and Jessica are either. Who are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they have broken up? Why are they so important? I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is, either, and I do not care at all about Tom Cruise's wife.


Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I am a subversive? Maybe, but I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are. Is this what it means to be no longer young. It's not so bad.


Next confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.


I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.


Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?


I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.


By the way if you doubt the validity of this check it here


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Persecution all over the world for Christianity

India: Hindu Villagers Beat, Expel Christian Families

This is a great example of the direction of today's world. Our faith has brought us through this before and will indeed again. The enemy gets stronger everyday though. The faith and dedication to the lord in the face of such persecution by these two families and the others all over the world should be seen as an inspiration.

Please ask the lord to be with these families and the other persecuted Christians in this world.

I feel Christianity should unite we all need to get past the little arguments over denomination whose Lutheran, Methodist, Catholic or any other denomination, does it really matter? We all play for the same team. Now is the time for unity in the Christian community. The enemy gets stronger everyday we need all the resources we can muster to battle his influences in this world.


Put on the full armour of your God. Get the word out to your friends and family that are not saved of his glorious gifts. I don't mean belittle or pressure people, let them know about the benefits, let them see his glory. Let them know that through Christs selfless acts we all have the opportunity to be saved. Once given this information let them work it out with themselves and the Lord, answer any questions they may have, realize it has to be a decision a person comes to on their own. We are all sinners that can all unite to make this world and the next a better place.


Romans 8:31-39
What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: " For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.




Thanks for reading and God bless!





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