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Strange Encounters with Rick Burgess

Ep 23 | Pagan Holiday?? The Truth About Christmas | Strange Encounters with Rick Burgess

Strange Encounters with Rick Burgess

Blaze Podcast Network

Natural Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Science, Spirituality

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Christmas traditions vary from family to family, but where do these traditions come from? Some claim that Christmas is actually a pagan holiday, like Halloween. Is it really all about the birth of Christ? When was Christ actually born? Can Christians celebrate Santa? Hear the answers and the biblical truth as Rick Burgess uses the power of the Bible to win the spiritual war going on around us on this episode of "Strange Encounters." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome in to another edition of Strange Encounters the podcast.

0:11.5

If you are finding us for the first time, our podcast is designed to deal with spiritual warfare through a biblical worldview. Why? Because we believe that the Bible is

0:23.9

the inspired word of God, and it's got all the supernatural that we need. But we also need to

0:31.1

understand that there is a spiritual realm. We are told this plainly by scripture. Angels, demons, God himself, obviously supernatural.

0:42.5

He is the beginning of all things. And we are mortal and created by a supernatural God.

0:49.9

So we want to take on that world and give you some spiritual training on maybe how to deal

0:58.3

with the battle that rages around us, the demonic forces, Lucifer, who became Satan and the devil,

1:06.6

God himself, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a triune God, you know, three persons, one God.

1:14.7

So today we want to get into, since while we're recording this, we're in that time of year where we are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.

1:25.5

Now, the scriptures do not tell us when Jesus was born.

1:28.9

I don't think there's really any value and engaging in arguments about when Christ was

1:36.4

actually born as a baby, 100% God, 100% man.

1:42.2

That was accomplished through a virgin birth, So the original sin of Adam never in play

1:48.3

on the 100% human side of the son of God who took on human flesh and lowered himself

1:55.4

while remaining 100% God. So then when he went to the cross to pay the price for sin, he was,

2:02.8

he met the standard that was required.

2:05.8

So as we are looking to when God came to us, when we could not come to him, we also have

2:13.8

to deal with the secular version that goes along.

2:17.9

It's one of the things about the Christian faith that makes us very unique is that there's

2:23.9

a lot of secular versions of some of our most holy times.

2:28.6

And so how do we as followers of Christ or how do you, if someone just can, you know, who's concerned about the

2:35.8

spiritual well-being of your home and your children and you, what about the secular side

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