Challenge Number Three of the Holiday Challenge is no up.
While I realize that some of these challenges are going to be too late for you to incorporate this year, I still plan to continue posting them till they are done, Lord willing. The one I just put up is about reducing the level of activities that you participate in. After all, if you are supposed to be celebrating Christ’s birth, why not focus more on Him and less on the “festivities of the season”? This is one thing that you may still have time to adjust in some areas.
Challenge Number Three – Simplify Your Holiday Activities
Excerpts:
1 Peter 4:3-4 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
“What is this madness that people get into for a month or more prior to Christmas? They are running to parties, shopping, attending events (recitals, plays, programs, cantatas, practices), shopping, cooking and baking in excess, shopping, etc.? What does all that have to do with the Lord Jesus Christ?…”
“…Maybe it's time to choose a simpler plan for your "celebration". Not only will it save you money; you will also have time to focus more on your family (especially your children whom you claim you must have Christmas for); you will be less emotionally exhausted; and most of all you will have more time, energy and resources to focus on the Lord Jesus Christ. (Wouldn't that be a novel idea.)…”
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