This message started its life out as a 4-part series. This however makes it difficult for those who want the whole bite all at once. Well, so here it is four to one.
People don’t like you to touch the Holidays. They like the fanfare, the foods, cakes, and candy, the hope that family can come together willingly without disputes and drunken debauchery. Oh wait, where did that come from? Let’s not get started on the mountain debt that floods the whole earth. I know god stated he wouldn’t do that again. So but you see if we only look at the parts of the Holidays that we like then, well it’s like picking up a partially rotten apple and turning it to its good side and eating that. Wait Ken are you saying that we have become like that when it comes to our Holidays? Well I am saying more in this message and that is that I do not think those Holidays represent what we think and hope they represent. And in these days there is such a mixing between those who really know God and those who think they do but don’t have a clue, and then those who could give a hoot about Him or Jesus. I am not here to crush the dream of a perfect Christmas, I just want us to be cognizant of the fact that we shouldn’t give those Holiday’s permission to distract us from our pursuit of the one who in all likelihood would migrate to the mountains during these sacred events. You see in their current state if you took away the alcohol, the gifts, drugs, Holiday paraphernalia, and anything else that has nothing to do with what the holiday is supposed to represent then I don’t think anyone would show up. Now so you don’t think me such a downer of a person, I am into reinventing things. Just return to what those Holidays are really about and see if the One shows up.
