Advent and Christmas come with numerous traditions, but how do you know when a tradition is a good thing or a bad thing?

Lutherans have been accused of holding traditions when they ought not and not holding to traditions when they should.

To learn more, read regular issues, etc. guest, Hans Feeney's article in the December 2025 issue of the Lutheran witness.

It's titled Tradition, Blessing, Burden, or both. Visit cpH.org

to subscribe or our website, witness.m.m.org to learn more. Litha Witness helping you interpret

the world from a Lutheran perspective.

So-called progressives hate Christianity and love Islam.

And this is because they associate Islam with being non-white, non-Western, and non-American, and non-Christian.

And in their animus against Christianity, they think that makes Islam just great.

And young people particularly spend an inordinate amount of time on social media.

And that, you know, helps us feel like we are connected.

So I might know how to connect well over a screen, but they lack the ability to do so in person.

What sinful man needs is someone to spoil his party so he doesn't end up experiencing

the horrors of hell.

He needs someone to put reality in front of him so he can be rescued out of his fantasy

before it's too late.

In this age of darkness, we must keep our lamps trimmed to dispel the darkness and to walk in light.

And this means attentiveness to the word of God, to the will of our Lord.

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The book of Ecclesiastes can sound depressing.

It can sound discouraging.

Everything is vanity, vanity of vanities.

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