A Lop-beard son of a sea cook.

December 11th, 2024.

Some have raised a question about the propriety of my Haman letter at such a time as this.

The question is whether we really need to debate this Jew thing during this season of Christmas.

Don't we have better things to do during this Advent season of preparation?

The answer is no, we don't.

We are not just supposed to celebrate the fact that Christ came.

We are also supposed to celebrate why he came.

What was his purpose?

What was his intent?

Christ took on a body so that he could die, and he died so that he could slay the enmity between Jew and Gentile, and that he might reconcile both Jew and Gentile

under God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby. Ephesians 2.16. He came to put

an end to this nonsense. But remember, such enmity only ceases in Christ. Unbelieving Jews

must come to Christ. Unbelieving Jew haters must come to Christ also. Put it all down. Come to him.

The sin of noticing. The protest in response is that, quote unquote, noticing is not the same thing

as hating. That is quite true. Noticing is not the same thing as hating. That is quite true. Noticing is not the same

thing as hating. Because it is not the same thing as hating and because hating doesn't ever like

admitting what it is doing, it will often seek out a more acceptable verb to hide under. Commenting is

not the same thing as complaining. And so more than a few grumblers maintain that all they are doing is commenting.

Admiring is not the same thing as lusting, and so more than a few lecherous thoughts have taken refuge under the gauzy film of art appreciation.

Prayer requests are not the same thing as gossiping, and so more than a few wagging tongues have managed to work the new receptionist for Mr. Jones

into a form of prayerful solicitude for Mrs. Jones. Don't ever assume that sin has scruples about

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