Friday, December 18, 2009

Is Christmas a Gift to the World?

Our nation does not need more sentimentalism, more commercialism, or more materialism. But our nation does need the gift of Christmas. We need nothing less than a Spirit-wrought reformation and revival and probably something the like of which has not been seen on these shores. And so why not celebrate Christmas? What happened in an animal stall on the outskirts of Bethlehem is the answer to all our problems, individual and communal. O come, o come, Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel. Savior of the nations, come. Joy to the world, the Lord is come. Hark! The herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!” These are not simply Christmas carols. They are the prayers and petitions of the saints to God today: “come and save us from our sins.”

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