WHAT IS ALL THE HUBBUB?

The Christmas Season is upon us and people are running hither and fither. This year stores even started black Friday sales on Thursday. The lights are going up all over town and the radio stations are changing over to the Christmas classics. So what is Christmas? I know the pad Christian answer, to celebrate our Saviors birth, but really what is it for? If you look back at Jewish feasts (Holidays) you will see a common theme and it is not to celebrate as much as it is to teach.
Christmas is our opportunity to pass down traditions that teach the next generation the truth of why Jesus our Savior came to this world. Our family has many Christmas traditions, ones that we started a few years ago that my oldest son came up with. We have a nativity that we place under the tree before any of the gifts. The key to the placing is that the manger is empty. I take baby Jesus and place Him in one of four identically wrapped boxes, one for each person of our family. On Christmas morning as we sit around the tree each person picks out one of those four boxes before any other gifts are opened. I take the last of the four to eliminate the appearance of cheating. We at that point talk about how the greatest gift ever given is Jesus. Each person opens their package and the one with Jesus inside is given the privilege of opening the first of the other gifts.

This is only one of our traditions. I know many of you too have Christmas traditions that focus on Jesus. Please share them with me at KevinUmphress@BereanAG.com so I can post them for others to see.