Jesus is the reason for the season

Santa Claus, Rudolph, Frosty the Snowman
(they have got nothing to do with christmas)


I received a christmas card which says "May Santa bring you and your family good health and a happy new year!!" you have no idea how this sentence manage to irritate me so much. but maybe i should not be, cuz the person who wrote this card most probably didnt think much before penning. does that guy not know that santa is just a fairy tale ???
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Carols, pretty christmas trees, presents. They just represent feelings that may be a response to the commercialism that distorts the real spirit of christmas. The christmas spirit we talk about is supposed to be like a reminder to us that we should live our lives like God himself. Duplicating that same kind of humble service to others, like how Jesus Christ died on the cross for us, dying for our sins.
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It is not the 'love' 'friendship' and whatever that the carlsburg beer advertisement tells us it is. it is not 'santa bringing us good health' it is also not the twinkling christmas tree. So, lets not start talking glibly about the 'christmas spirit' without knowing what it means. it would soon sound very cliche and meaningless because none of those captures the real meaning of that phrase.
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let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus - philippians 2:1-11
merry christmas people :)