Ep 724 | Why My Family Celebrates Christmas but Not Santa

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

Blaze Podcast Network

News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

4.6 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Today on this very Christmas-themed episode, we’re answering the question: Is Christmas pagan? We look at John Piper's response to this question and elaborate on why, while some Christmas traditions may have pagan origins, it is very good to celebrate the birth of Christ and all it represents. Ultimately, like with all things, we want to make sure not to esteem Christmas above Christ himself. Then, we get into a controversial take: not sharing Santa with one's kids. Allie shares her story of finding out Santa isn’t real and how this impacted her view of the topic now. We talk about laying a foundation of integrity and trustworthiness for our kids. Lastly, we take a look at the White House's Respect for Marriage Act signing ceremony and Biden's statement that LGBTQ people are being "thrown out of restaurants" and that trans kids and doctors offering "gender-affirming care" are being targeted. We respond to these wild statements and look at why leftists have gotten so extreme, so quickly. --- Timecodes: (4:11) Is Christmas a pagan holiday? (34:01) Santa Claus (47:52) Respect for Marriage Act ceremony --- Today's Sponsors: Good Ranchers — change the way you shop for meat today by visiting GoodRanchers.com/ALLIE and use promo code 'ALLIE' for a discount! CrowdHealth — get your first 6 months for just $99/month. Use promo code 'ALLIE' when you sign up at JoinCrowdHealth.com. Patriot Mobile — go to PatriotMobile.com/ALLIE or call 972-PATRIOT and use promo code 'ALLIE' to try Patriot Mobile for two months and get your third month for free! Dwell — enhance your time in the Word with the read-along experience featuring big, bold text & beautiful background art. Go to DwellApp.io/RELATABLE to get 10% off a yearly subscription or 33% off for life! --- Links: Desiring God: "Is Christmas Too Pagan for Christians?" https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/is-christmas-too-pagan-for-christians The Gospel Coalition: "Is Christmas a Pagan Rip-off?" https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevin-deyoung/is-christmas-a-pagan-rip-off/ --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 540 | A Biblical Take on Santa https://apple.co/3uPDhvr Ep 541 | Christmas Hot Takes | Guest: Nathan Nipper https://apple.co/3YidMR7 --- Christmas Merch: Use code ALLIE20 for 20% off the whole shop! Full collection: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey?sort_by=created-descending#MainContent --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	is Christmas pagan. Should Christians tell kids that Santa Claus is real? We will be discussing
0:08.8	these things today. Also, at the very end, we will recap the circus that was yesterday's White
0:16.8	House ceremony for the signing of the so-called Respect for Marriage Act. We will respond to some
0:22.8	of the things that Joe Biden had to say. It is a full episode. You guys are going to love it. I just
0:30.4	have a really good feeling. This episode is brought to you by our friends at GoodRangers. So go to
0:35.5	GoodRangers.com. Use promo code Ali. GoodRangers.com. Code Ali. All right, guys. So a Christmas episode that I've
0:55.7	been wanting to do for a little bit, but there's been so much going on in the news that I felt like I
1:01.6	need to cover, but we are finally getting to it. We're finally getting to the conversation of
1:08.5	Christmas being pagan or not and also what I believe about Santa. So there is going to be a lot
1:14.9	of gospel, a lot of scripture woven into this episode that even if you don't agree with me,
1:20.1	I hope will still edify you because that, of course, is what the word of God does. It informs,
1:27.6	it encourages, it equips, and it edifies. So if you listen to nothing else that I say, if you're
1:33.6	compelled by nothing else that I say on this episode, at least be encouraged by what scripture
1:40.4	has to say. Before we get into it, let me say a couple of things. So yesterday at the end of the
1:45.8	podcast, I said the Dallas Jenkins is going to be on the show tomorrow. I asked you for some
1:50.1	questions that you might have for him. It's actually going to be on Monday that the episode is
1:56.0	going to come out. And so you still got time, send me some questions that you might have for him.
2:02.1	You've already sent me a few, the Dallas Jenkins. If you don't know, he is the creator of the series,
2:07.2	The Chosen. I have lots of different questions for him. And so make sure the children listen to
2:13.1	that tomorrow. I'm going to have Lynn Wilder on the show. She wrote a book with her son called
2:18.4	Unvailing Grace. She spent 30 years in the Mormon church before she heard and believed the gospel.
2:27.9	And so we are going to listen to her testimony tomorrow. And I think that you are going to be
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