this month's focus:
Christmas - Putting the Christ back in Christians.re.
 Bah Humbug!
Some Christians, God bless them everyone, can turn a perfectly nice holiday like Christmas into a Bah Humbug Fest. You know, Santa is Satan, Elves are demons, the secular humanists have given us "Xmas," lights on homes are runways for UFOs, trees are druid priests in disguise, the snow is cocaine, snowmen are Halloween throwbacks - whoa! sorry, got carried away. (See how easy it is?)
This month we link up to two articles dealing with the issue. One, here, is a straight out "C'mon let's grow up" essay by R. C. Sproul, Marley's Message to Scrooge. Another is a more subtle, modern-day Screwtape Letter, The Spirits of Christmas Present. Go here to get your presents!
Other Christmas articles, one on the star, another on extradimensions and St Nick are below.
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| General |
| Apocrypha |
The Apocrypha |
| Apologetics |
What is Apologetics?
Six Enemies to Apologetics
If I Only Had a Heart |
| Augustine |
Augustine of Hippo Part 1: From Pagan, to Cultist, to Skeptic, to Christian Sage |
| Baptism |
Heaven will be Boring!
Baptism in the Holy Spirit |
| Bible |
Keys to Analyzing Scripture
Fulfilled Prophecy- Evidence for the Reliability of the Bible
Biblical Forecasts of Scientific Discoveries |
| Bible, Missing Books of |
Any Lost Books? |
| Blasphemy |
Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit |
| Cain's Wife |
Finding a Wife for Cain |
| Christianity and ease |
Heaven will be Boring! |
| Christianity as the only way |
Heaven will be Boring!
Do All Religions Lead to God?
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| Christmas, Christians and |
The Spirits of Christmas Present
The Christmas Star
Extra Dimensions and St. Nick
Marley's Message to Scrooge |
| Christianity as a Subculture |
Khristian Kitsch
Why Christians Should Not "Vote Republican"
The Legacy of 20th Century Christianity on Art, Music, Architecture, Dance, and Literature
Christians & the Danger of Urban Legends
In Defense of "Compromising" Christian Musicians |
| Code, The Bible |
10 Criticisms of the Bible Code |
| Contradictions |
Answers to Biblical Contradictions |
| Cult Leaders, Characteristics |
Profile of a Cult Leader |
| Da Vinci Code |
A WHOLE LOAD OF DAVINCI STUFF from Christianity Today
Down with DaVinci! [it's not what you think]
Breaking the Da Vinci Code
Was Jesus Married? |
| Death |
God's Mercy in Death
Scriptural Evidences for Plants and Primitive Animals Experiencing Life and Death
After Death I.D.—Will I Still Be Me? |
| Death before the Fall |
Death through Sin |
| Demons |
Dealing With Demons |
| Denominations |
Heaven will be Boring! |
| Eternal Security |
Eternal Security |
| Evil |
Evil and Suffering in Light of God's Love and Power |
| Faith |
Faith and Wishing |
| Fasting |
Fasting (Notes on...) |
| Flood |
Outline Of Genesis Flood Chapters |
| Forgiveness |
Do We Need to Continually Ask for Forgiveness? |
| Free Will |
Free Will and Election
Free Will and Election (Scripture on...) |
| Godless (so-called) and heaven |
Heaven will be Boring!
Pygmies in Africa |
| Gospel |
The Gospel According to Creation |
| Grace |
Grace |
| Halloween |
Halloween for Christians
The Tricky Topic of Halloween |
| Harry Potter |
A review of the series from a Christian perspective by Alan Jacobs of First Things |
| Inspiration |
God Doesn't Give Autographs |
| Islam |
Understanding Islam and Its Relationship to Current World Events by Dr Robert Evans |
| Jones, Jim |
Profile of a Cult Leader |
| Koran |
A Website which is the Koran |
| Koresh, David |
Profile of a Cult Leader |
| Lord of the Rings |
J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, a Legendary Friendship
Saint J. R. R. the Evangelist
Saint Frodo and the Potter Demon
Tolkien's Clash of Civilizations
Lord of the Rings' has Ring of the Christian Lord
The Battle of the Books: No contest. Tolkien runs
rings around Potter
Finding God in the Lord of the Rings (book) |
| Miracles |
Heaven will be Boring! |
| Moon, Sun Myung |
Profile of a Cult Leader |
| Nature and Cruelty |
Good God, Cruel World? |
| Nature of Christ |
And the Word Was
Jesus of Nazareth
But Who Do You Say That I Am
Heaven will be Boring!
Fish Guts & Extradimensionality
Jesus Christ (The Great Claims of...)
Jesus and the Gospels
Who Do You Say I Am?: Cluing in the Critics
Thinking About The Incarnation: The Divine Word Became Flesh |
| Pluralism |
The Problems with Religious Pluralism |
| Prayer in the Public School |
Prayer Will Survive, Let's Give Thanks! |
| Prayer and Time |
Why It May Never be Too Late to Pray |
| Religions, Other |
Do All Religions Lead to God?
Thinking Biblically About the World’s Religions
Worldview Tests - Nine Methods for Testing a Worldview |
| Resurrection, The |
If Christ Has Not Been Raised: Reasoning Through the Resurrection |
| Rutherford, Joseph |
Profile of a Cult Leader |
| Science and Theology |
The Historic Alliance of Christianity and Science |
| Suffering |
Evil and Suffering in Light of God's Love and Power |
| Thinking |
To Think or not to Think |
| Translations |
Should We Leave and Cleave the KJV? |
| Trinity |
Heaven will be Boring!
Thinking About the Trinity: One What and Three Whos |
| Mormonism |
| Book of Mormon, and Mormon theology |
Joseph Smith Didn't Believe the Book of Mormon... |
| Book of Mormon, and National Geographic |
Q&A4LDS |
| Book of Mormon, and ancient America |
Q&A4LDS
The Smithsonian Letter Concerning the Book of Mormon |
| Book of Mormon, archaeological evidence in support |
Q&A4LDS
The Smithsonian Letter Concerning the Book of Mormon |
| Book of Mormon, historic accuracy |
Q&A4LDS
What's Wrong with Mormonism?
The Smithsonian Letter Concerning the Book of Mormon |
| Dark skin as curse |
Q&A4LDS |
| Eternal Progression |
Dear Gods
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| God, the Mormon |
Philosophical Problems with the Mormon Concept of God.
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| Mormon Prophecy |
Q&A4LDS |
| Mormons, A Christian attitude towards |
Heaven will be Boring! |
| Plurality of gods |
The Reality of the Plurality of Gods
The Gods are Many |
| Plurality of wives (polygamy) |
Q&A4LDS |
| Polygamy and godhood |
Q&A4LDS
Dear Gods
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| Polytheism |
Mormonism: Monotheistic or Polytheistic? |
| Pratt, Orson |
Q&A4LDS |
| Pratt, Sarah, testimony of |
Q&A4LDS |
| Smith, Joseph |
Q&A4LDS
Dear Gods
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| Snow, Lorenzo |
Dear Gods
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| True Church? |
The True Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
What's Wrong with Mormonism? |
| Young, Brigham |
Dear Gods
Q&A4LDS |
| Jehovah's Witnesses |
| Deity of Christ |
And the Word Was
Jesus of Nazareth
But Who Do You Say That I Am
Jesus Christ (The Great Claims of...)
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| John 1:1 |
And the Word Was |
| John 2:19 |
Watchtower Defense Tactics |
| New light |
Watchtower Defense Tactics |
| Strategy within and against |
Watchtower Defense Tactics |
| The God vs a god |
And the Word Was |
| Tips for studying with |
Watchtower Defense Tactics |
| Watchtower Reliability, addressing |
Watchtower Defense Tactics |
| Scientology |
(Fair warning: some links are to places that are NOT Christian. They are marked with an NC.) |
| link |
Operation Clambake (NC) The Mother of all Counter-Scientology Sites
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| link |
The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power (NC) Time magazine's award-winning expose of Scientology |
| link |
The Watchman Expositor - Lotsa Christian-based articles on Scientology |
| link |
Ex-Scientologist Steven Fishmans Home Page (NC) |
| link |
What is Scientology? (by an ex-Scientologist) (NC) |
| International Church of Christ (Boston Church of Christ) |
| link |
Reveal The "ICC Were Us" of counter-Boston Church sites |
| Endtimes & Prophecy |
| Bible |
Fulfilled Prophecy - Evidence for the Reliability of the Bible |
| End Times |
Signs of the End
Primary Scripture Chapters on End-Times Prophecies
The Lord Is Near
Tribulation Dooms
Scriptures on the Rapture
Millennium (Scriptures on the...) |
| Israel |
Modern Israel, a Fulfillment of Prophecy |
| Rapture |
Scriptures on the Rapture |
Works by Topic + Land o' Theology
