Christmas
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February 15, 2008
In the Peanuts comic strip, one of the little girls says that Christmas is a
time for kindness and joy, and a time when we forgive one another. Charlie
Brown responds by saying, "Why just at Christmas? Why can't we be kind and
forgiving all through the year?" She looks at Charlie Brown and says,
"What are you, some kind of religious fanatic?"
Wouldn't it be great if the lessons we learned at Christmas and the attitudes we consider appropriate at Christmas could be exercised the year round? Wouldn't it be great if we would risk being called religious fanatics for that purpose?
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Illustration by J. Michael Shannon, Professor of Preaching, Cincinnati Bible College & Seminary, Cincinnati, OH.
Wouldn't it be great if the lessons we learned at Christmas and the attitudes we consider appropriate at Christmas could be exercised the year round? Wouldn't it be great if we would risk being called religious fanatics for that purpose?
___________________________
Illustration by J. Michael Shannon, Professor of Preaching, Cincinnati Bible College & Seminary, Cincinnati, OH.