by Pat Lunsford

Created on: December 09, 2010   Last Updated: January 17, 2011

Having Christmas without Christ is like a man having a wedding without a bride. Haven’t we done enough to distort the true meaning of Christmas without taking away the reason we celebrate it in the first place? It has gotten to the point now that when we begin to see Christmas decorations going up we know that Thanksgiving is just around the corner.

It’s true that Christmas is a joyous time of the year and most of us love it when the Christmas season comes around. Actually, a lot of people would love nothing better than to celebrate Christmas year round. But let’s face it, not many of us can afford the one Christmas we have once a year.

Jesus Christ came from the Father about 2,000 years ago as a baby and grew up to give His life for mankind. Christmas (Christ-mass) is the day we celebrate the birth of the Son of God which is the greatest gift to mankind and we have been exchanging gifts on this day for centuries. But over the last fifty years we have taken the emphasis off Christ and put it on giving and getting.

Taking Christ out of Christmas is like taking any of us out of  our birthday celebration."Happy birthday ...whoever!" If it's your birthday, the celebration should be centered upon you but if people leave you out and simply celebrate for the sake of celebrating, they have taken away the honor that should have been bestowed upon you.

It’s just outright ridiculous. Even our radio and television stations refrain from anything pertaining to Christ during the Christmas season. How many songs do you hear about Jesus on the radio during the Christmas season? It's either Santa Clause, Rodolph, Frosty the snowman, Jingle bell rock, or Grandma got run over by a reindeer!

We’ve already allowed a rabbit (of all things) to take Christ’s place at Easter. How far are we going to let this foolishness go? We’re all guilty of this. We tell our kids to go to sleep on Christmas Eve or Santa won’t come then we take them to church Christmas morning. How do we explain Santa to them when they’re old enough to understand what Christmas means?

Most kids understand as they get older that it was all just pretend and that Jesus is the real reason for the Christmas season. However, there are some who, when they learn that Santa is not real, begin to question the reality of Christ. The same applies to Easter as well. We are confusing our kids.

Perhaps people feel that Jesus takes the fun out of Christmas. Having Christmas

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