Should Christians Celebrate Christmas?

Heaven & Healing Podcast

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:spirituality, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

I wasn't going to touch the Christmas convo this year because I didn't want to deal with the "you're going to hell" comments for being in favor of the holiday, but ALSO because I've honestly been wrestling with this myself the past couple of months!! But I was praying on it this past weekend and God told me that there are MANY wrestling with this subject, and that it's okay to come at this from a place of vulnerability rather than authority... So, there's a lot to talk about! And I really want to address this from every angle, to lay out fact v fiction, explore the Scriptures, and allow us to test the spirits together. Some of the things I'll get into... -the debated pagan origins -defining what exactly "celebration" is -Jeremiah 10...............in context lol -glorifying Jesus over tradition -the HARD no's (Santa, magic, elves etc.) -God's biblical holidays -the "Jesus doesn't say to celebrate His birth" argument -idolatry -pros/cons of celebrating Christmas — Angela's Instagram: @angelamariescafidi — Ways to Support the Show: 🤝Monthly Partner: https://donorbox.org/heaven-healing-podcast-ministry 💜 Stripe: https://buy.stripe.com/eVafZjfnI1cD2sg8ww 💸 Venmo: https://account.venmo.com/u/angelamariescafidi 💲CashApp: https://cash.app/$AngelamarieScafidi 💶 Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/angelaucci — Referenced article: https://ca.thegospelcoalition.org/article/christmas-isnt-pagan/

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Heaven and Healing Podcast. Be sure to go over to YouTube where you can catch us live stream these episodes weekly every Thursday night at 6 p.m. Central Time. Be sure to subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and click the bell for notifications so that you never miss alive. And whatever platform you're currently listening to this on give it a thumbs up a five-star
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0:28.0	enjoy the episode a chat where you're watching from and if this is your first time for a
0:35.9	live stream or if you watch frequently.
0:38.9	This should be an interesting dialogue tonight. I really don't know how long this is going to go.
0:43.8	So I'm just going to dive right into it. Okay. We are talking about Christmas in the context of
0:49.1	celebrating as Christians, which might sound weird to some of you, but you'd be surprised how
0:53.5	just heavily debated of a topic this is.
0:56.0	I actually did a live stream on this last year with my really good friend and brother in Christ, Emmanuel, who is in the chat right now.
1:02.0	Shout out Emmanuel, so you can go watch that when you're done here.
1:05.0	I wanted to cover this again really only because God sort of instructed me to.
1:10.0	I honestly wasn't going to touch this with a 10-foot pole.
1:13.6	I will tell you why.
1:14.6	But before I get into all of it and you all run into the comments section,
1:18.6	I just want to share in the first minute or two here what I'm going to be talking about
1:23.6	in the entirety of this live stream.
1:25.6	So obviously I have to talk about the highly debated origins
1:29.7	because that's what everyone wants to talk about. We're going to talk about Christmas trees,
1:34.0	specifically in the context of Jeremiah 10 and what that actually means biblically with some
1:40.9	visual examples. Praise the Lord. Next, we'll talk about idolatry. We'll talk about glorifying
1:46.3	Jesus over tradition. We'll talk about God's biblical holidays and the feast days that he mandated.
1:52.2	If or if not, they should be celebrated by us in the new covenant. Then we'll do the hard nose of
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