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Why Jesus is Better Than Santa Claus

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Why Jesus is Better Than Santa Claus

 

Santa lives at the North Pole…

     JESUS is everywhere.

Santa rides in a sleigh…
     JESUS rides on the wind and walks on the water.

Santa comes but once a year…
     JESUS is an ever present help.

Santa fills your stockings with goodies…
     JESUS supplies all your needs.

Santa comes down your chimney uninvited…
     JESUS stands at your door and knocks, and then enters your heart when invited.

You have to wait in line to see Santa…
     JESUS is as close as the mention of His name.

Santa lets you sit on his lap…
     JESUS lets you rest in His arms.

Santa doesn’t know your name, all he can say is “Hi little boy or girl, what’s your name?”…
     JESUS knew our name before we were born.  Not only does He know our name, He knows our address too. He knows our history and future and He even knows how many hairs are on our heads.

Santa has a belly like a bowl full of jelly…
     JESUS has a heart full of love

All Santa can offer is HO HO HO…
    JESUS offers health, help and hope.

Santa says “You better not cry”…
     JESUS says “Cast all your cares on me for I care for you.”

Santa’s little helpers make toys…
    JESUS makes new life, mends wounded hearts, repairs broken homes and builds mansions.

Santa may make you chuckle but…
    JESUS gives you joy that is your strength.

While Santa puts gifts under your tree…
     JESUS became our gift and died on a tree…the cross.

We need to put Christ back in CHRISTmas, Jesus is still the reason for the season.

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Putting back Christ this CHRISTMAS!

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If Christmas <Middle English Cristemas, from Old English Crīstes mæsse: Christ’s festival > is to be called depending on how it is practiced today, I could think of the names: Santamas <festival of santa>. Giftmas <festival of gifts>. Lightmas <festival of lights>. hmmmm… murag pangit paminawon. Dapat jud Christmas <Festival of Christ>.

Seriously.

It is apparent that a Christless Christmas has been dominating the modern-day yuletide. This season seems to have been stuffed with gift-giving, decorating, partying, festive eating, get-together, shopping.. what else? There is definitely nothing wrong with those stuff. There just have to be something more meaningful and something profound other than the celebration.

“A lot of the Christmas celebration is a nostalgic veneer that doesn’t really connect very deeply theologically,” says Mary Helene Rosenbaum, head of Dovetail Institute for Interfaith Family Resources, based in Boston, Ky. (USA Today)

Christmas, as it is very obvious, is for Christ- His coming from the highest of highs to the cursed cross.

Michael Horton, a professor of theology and an associate pastor shares in his book Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church. that Christmas without the specter of the cross, without awareness that this is a baby born to die for mankind’s sins, is a fancied-up fraud. (USA Today)

Christ has been relegated to the peripherae as Santa is being considered the ‘Father of Christmas.’

“Santa becomes a substitute for Christ. It’s hard to imagine Santa returning to judge the human race and consign anyone to hell. But that (judgment) is what Jesus came to save us from,” says Horton, who tells his children Santa works for Jesus.

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