The Advocate: Christmas tree sales remain stable, artificial decor continues rise in popularity
Christmas tree sales in the Capital Region have remained stable this year despite rising prices, sellers said. Vendors in the Baton Rouge area selling real and artificial Christmas trees said sales ...
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 ...
If Christmas tree sales are anything to go by, U.S. consumers aren’t pulling the plug on holiday shopping this year—but they might be dimming the lights. Heading into the holiday season, Tim Leyden, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...