Think Before You Sing

Merry Christmas! I hope that you are able to enjoy Christmas with your family in one way or another. I have started this project as a way to help push people to make their own decisions and because of that I want to encourage you to take some time reading your Bible and thinking about it on your own. I will acknowledge that I have been struggling with what Christmas should really be. I believe we can agree that it is a celebration of Christ’s birth. The issue arises when we look at if it is about giving or receiving. Is it about the Gift of Christ that has been given to us or is it a call to reflect that gift by giving to others. I have suggested looking at Luke 2:1-21 already so I will not put it here but do feel free to take a look at it on your own. Matthew 1:18-25 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husba...

  I want to talk about the song The First Noel, the great Christmas anthem that we all sing without stopping to think about what the word noel means and if we do know what it means we do not stop to teach it to others. Here is the Definition according to google: Christmas, especially as a refrain in carols and on Christmas cards. So the chorus of the first Noel has the exact same meaning as: Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas Born is the King of Israel There are not necessarily any issues with that statement but I think we often think there is more meaning when we use the work noel instead and that is simply on the case. These issues do not stop there, let’s take a peek at the first verse. The first Noel the angel did say was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay; in fields where they lay keeping their sheep, on a cold winter's night that was so deep. So we have some things to look at briefly. First again is the use of Noel. Looking at the firs...