- Holidays and Celebrations - JW. ORG
Holidays and Celebrations The fact that Jehovah’s Witnesses do not participate in most holiday observances and other celebrations can be somewhat perplexing to a teacher We hope the following helps you to understand why we take the matter so seriously Perhaps to a greater extent than you may have realized, many holidays and the customs associated with them have a non-Christian religious
- Christians and Christmas - Grace to You
Christmas presents a conundrum to many believers Do you withdraw from the world and its materialistic excess at this time of year? Or do you lean
- Why Don’t Jehovah’s Witnesses Celebrate Christmas? - JW. ORG
Get the facts: Do Jehovah’s Witnesses celebrate Christmas? What do they believe? Here are 4 reasons for some of their choices
- The People Who Missed Christmas: Rome and Nazareth
On the other hand, perhaps you’ve been missing Christmas altogether You may get presents and eat a big dinner and decorate a tree, but you know in your heart that you are no different from the innkeeper, Herod, the religious leaders, the people of Jerusalem, the Romans, or the citizens of Nazareth You are missing the reality of Christmas
- Holidays and Celebrations | Bible Questions Answers | JW. ORG
Answers to some of the most common questions about popular holidays and celebrations The clear explanations found in God’s Word may surprise you
- When Was Jesus Born? | Bible Questions - JW. ORG
Since there is no evidence that the birth of Jesus Christ occurred on December 25, why is Christmas celebrated on this date? The Encyclopædia Britannica says that church leaders probably chose it “to coincide with the pagan Roman festival marking the ‘birthday of the unconquered sun,’” at the time of the winter solstice According to The Encyclopedia Americana, many scholars believe
- No, Thats Not the True Meaning of Christmas - Grace to You
Most popular Christmas traditions are less than 150 years old One such tradition, dating back to Dickens’s time, is the sentimental exploration of the question “What is the true meaning of Christmas?” The true-meaning-of-Christmas meme even has its own Wikipedia entry
- The Mystery of Christmas - Grace to You
As you know, we’ve been in a series in Galatians, and we’ll hold off on that until next Lord’s Day And this morning, just to think a little bit about the Christmas season as we live through it again this year, what comes to my mind is how enigmatic Christmas is, how paradoxical it is, how contradictory Christmas is I looked up the word “paradox” knowing that it comes from two Greek
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