Some of best-known parts of the Christmas story aren't in the Bible at all ... is a Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, the Bible offers scant information on when Mary gave ...

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Just as with the meaning of each Advent candle, there are four things to keep us laser-focused on what Christmas ... the Bible says when the angels came to announce the birth of Jesus, they ...

Since Christmas is in full swing (I refuse ... What follows are the most significant contrasts in Jesus’s birth story, which birthed a famous Bible quote/cliché, “No room at the inn.” ...

In the Bible, they are not called ... archaeology is telling us about the real Jesus.) Popular depictions of Christmas seem to compress the nativity story, making it appear as though the three ...

We have sanitized and commercialized the meaning of Christmas and robbed it of its deeper meaning: Jesus ... Bible he knows nothing about. And that’s why Christmas for him is simply a quaint story.

The exact birthday of Jesus is not known and doesn’t appear in the Christian Bible ... as America’s favorite Christmas movie. Is it Florida’s? What is the true story of Santa Claus?

The 25th is Christmas. Yes, it’s the day Santa comes, but it’s also Jesus ... of the story of Christ’s birth in Scripture. Though I’ve drifted away from the church, the Bible is central ...

What the Bible does tell us is that there were few people at Jesus' birth: only his parents, shepherds who attended later, followed by a visit from the magi (the wise men).' The Christmas story ...