While Christmas tree sales are down long term, growers said their product is resilient to shorter economic pressures such as inflation. “Most everybody that wants a tree is buying a tree,” Tyler Stone ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Stuempel has been selling Christmas trees in Northern Kentucky for 55 years. His wife Rose Stuempel joined him to help at the ...
NEWPORT, KY – Paul Stuempel has been selling Christmas trees in Northern Kentucky for 55 years – from defrosting trees one-by-one for waiting customers to hauling trees to people's cars in the sleet ...
The Best of Christmas Like many of history’s most enduring stories, this one took the most unlikely of turns. A virgin woman bears a child, promised by an angel and conceived by God. Born in a crowded town near Jerusalem, the infant has for His nursery a stable—His makeshift crib, a feeding trough. But shepherds worship the boy, and a powerful king fears Him. And when He has become a man ...
This post was first published . -ed. Meet another man who missed the first Christmas: Herod. Matthew 2 tells his story. He was...
Some were sentimental, saying Christmas is a family time, a time for children, and so on. Others were humanistic, seeing Christmas as a time to celebrate love for one’s fellow man, the spirit of giving, and that sort of thing. Others were crassly hedonistic, viewing Christmas as just another excuse to party.
I suppose for some people the Christmas spirit is expressed in a card that conveys a sentiment of well-being. Ninety-five percent of all Americans will be involved in sending five billion plus Christmas cards expressing these sentiments. One little boy suggested that the Christmas spirit is really contentment, because that’s what you need to be when you don’t get what you want. For some ...
Here is the theology of Christmas, okay? The theology of Christmas. My intention today is to be straightforward and just tell the real story of the birth of Christ and have you make no mistake about its genuine significance. In Philippians chapter 2, verse 5 ends by identifying Christ Jesus. Then Christ Jesus becomes the theme of the next few ...
That’s the meaning of Christmas. And no matter what you may think and what sentiments you may have and what warm feelings you might have about Christmas, unless you understand the ugliness of your own sin and embrace Jesus Christ, who alone by His death and resurrection can save you from that sin, you don’t have any connection with Christmas.
The Real Meaning of Christmas The story’s told of a little girl who’s passing out the presents to her family on Christmas morning. After finding gifts for each member of her family, she was puzzled that there wasn’t a gift for the One whose birth was being commemorated. “I guess everyone forgot about Jesus,” she said. If you want a truly meaningful Christmas season, it stands to ...
Familiar scene of Christmas is depicted so commonly by artists who design Christmas cards, and most people get their understanding of Christmas from Christmas cards and not from Scripture. There are some very familiar and accurate understandings. Obviously, Joseph and Mary and the Baby, and the shepherds; pretty clear to all of us just exactly who they were. We understand the shepherd were in ...
The Truth About Christmas DO YOU care about spiritual truth? If so, then perhaps you have asked these questions: (1) Was Jesus actually born on December 25? (2) Who were the “wise men,” and were they really three in number? (3) What sort of “star” led them to Jesus? (4) What does Santa Claus have to do with Jesus and his birth? (5) How does God view the Christmas custom of giving gifts ...
MSN: Macon Christmas Light Extravaganza brings over $7 million to local economy in 2025 season
NewTown Macon announced on Thursday that the 2025 Christmas Light Extravaganza brought in more than $7 million to the local economy. They said in a media release that the annual event drew 723,000 non ...
Macon Christmas Light Extravaganza brings over $7 million to local economy in 2025 season
Christmas should be simple, not complex, very simple. Christmas should be stripped of all of its trappings so that all that is left is the simplicity of God becoming man. That is the only element in the Christmas seasonal celebration that has in it any lasting power to effect life.
Christmas, however, in spite of all the pluses, in spite of all the good elements of Christmas, it has a way in our culture of significantly surfacing hypocrisy. I never cease to be amazed at how many people sing Christmas ca... Help Grace to You bring important resources like this to people in your community and beyond, free of charge. Stand ...
We started having Christmas celebrations and Christmas services together back in 1969. That’s a long time. That’s a lot longer than some of you have been alive. I understand that. And every Christmas, I look forward to it. Sometimes people say to me: don’t you run out of things to say? So far, I haven’t run out of things to say, it’s an inexhaustible resource, that the Word of God is ...
The Jesus of Christmas If you want a truly meaningful Christmas this year, you need to understand the true meaning of Christmas. And that starts with understanding the Person of Christmas: Jesus Himself. In The Jesus of Christmas, John MacArthur fixes your gaze on the One deserving your full attention at Christmas—and every day. You’ll see why Jesus alone is worthy of your praise and your ...