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11-29-2010, 11:27 PM
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Go Dodgers!
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Re: Why Is The "Christmas Spirit" So Different?
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Originally Posted by Cindy
It also brings with it, most people trying to be kinder and more giving. You know, the way we are SUPPOSE to be all year long.
More than that, it is because our SAVIOR was born, our redemption has come.
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Kinder to their families and friends?
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Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
- There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
- The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
- Every sinner must repent of their sins.
- That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
- That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
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11-30-2010, 05:56 AM
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Love God, Love Your Neighbor
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Re: Why Is The "Christmas Spirit" So Different?
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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
That just seemed like quite an emphatic answer for someone who had not made a post in the thread up to that point.
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If I'm going to be emphatic, I'll do it under my own screen name. 
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11-30-2010, 06:07 AM
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Still Figuring It Out.
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Re: Why Is The "Christmas Spirit" So Different?
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If I'm going to be emphatic, I'll do it under my own screen name. |
I have no doubt. 
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11-30-2010, 06:30 AM
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Forever Loved Admin
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Re: Why Is The "Christmas Spirit" So Different?
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Kinder to their families and friends?
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Sometimes to strangers.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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11-30-2010, 06:50 AM
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Isaiah 56:4-5
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Re: Why Is The "Christmas Spirit" So Different?
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If I'm going to be emphatic, I'll do it under my own screen name. |
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11-30-2010, 06:50 AM
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Isaiah 56:4-5
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Re: Why Is The "Christmas Spirit" So Different?
Everyday is Christmas..
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11-30-2010, 06:50 PM
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Re: Why Is The "Christmas Spirit" So Different?
Bah humbug! Christmas is all about $$$$$$$$$$$. 
Actually,
"One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind."( Rom 14:5)
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11-30-2010, 07:03 PM
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Re: Why Is The "Christmas Spirit" So Different?
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Originally Posted by Pilgrum
Actually,
"One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind."( Rom 14:5) |
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11-30-2010, 07:05 PM
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Isaiah 56:4-5
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Re: Why Is The "Christmas Spirit" So Different?
christmas... when christians everywhere become catholic for a season...
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12-01-2010, 02:05 AM
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Re: Why Is The "Christmas Spirit" So Different?
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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
This time of year has what is referred to as the "Christmas Spirit".
That spirit requires it's own set of music that is not played in other parts of the year.
It requires it's own set of decorations that are not up other times of the year.
Why does this "remembrance" require such a complete regearing of the worship we give to God the other 11 months out of the year?
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It's a superficial fakelike spirit.
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Today pull up the little weeds,
The sinful thoughts subdue,
Or they will take the reins themselves
And someday master you. --Anon.
The most deadly sins do not leap upon us, they creep up on us.
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