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To the Lord, I will not be Celebrating Christ’s Birth
As an exercise of my Christian liberty, I will not be celebrating Christ’s birthday on December 25, 2008. I will not be attending a “mass” or any substitute thereof. I do not plan to set aside any business concerns that would interfere with such religious exercises. Instead, by engaging in worldly employments and recreations, I…
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Celebrating the Release of Prisoners
Today the French celebrate “Bastille Day,” a day on which the rebellious mob of the French Revolution overwhelmed the security of France’s most famous prison, the Bastille, and released its prisoners. I have a proposal this year to remember on this day God’s gracious act of regeneration. It is a bit incongruous, I suppose to…
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Christ is Risen! He Truly is Risen!
The title of this refrain is what has been and will continue to be shouted in various time zones moving westward tonight as the “Orthodox” old calendar churches celebrate Pascha (i.e. “Easter”). Christ truly is risen. I realize that there are “Orthodox” folks out there with a very wide variety of beliefs. I hope and…