Speculation as to the time of Jesus’ birth dates back to the 3rd century, when Hyppolytus (ca. 170-236) claimed that Jesus was born on December 25. The earliest mention of some sort of observance on that date is in the Philoclian Calendar, representing Roman practice, of the year 336. Later, John Chrysostom favored the same [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’
Tough Questions: Was Jesus really born on December 25th?
Posted in Tough Questions, tagged Answer, Born, Christmas, December 25, Jesus, Question on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Modern Faith: Christ-mas vs. X-mas
Posted in Modern Faith, tagged amendments, Birthday, Christian, Christmas, church, Faith, Happy Holidays, Jesus, Lights, Presents, religion, rights on January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As I climbed up on the roof this weekend to take down the Christmas lights, I sat up there for a minute and looked around my suburban neighborhood. My across the street neighbor, Jason, was taking down his light up deer and lights as well. There were remnants of lights and decorations all over [...]
Welcome Back!
Posted in Site News, tagged Christmas, holiday, New Year, Welcome on January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and New Year holiday!
Mine was great and filled with more love than I knew was out there. Beyond Faith will be starting back up today so stay tuned….one day I will learn to write ahead of schedule but till then…
PS: Have you ever done a seearch [...]
