The most important thing that Christians can do during the Christmas season is to keep Jesus Christ at the center of all their activities while avoiding getting caught up in shopping and presents‚ according to renowned evangelist Billy Graham. In a question-and-answer column on the Tribune Content Agency on Nov. 24‚ a woman asked Rev. Graham how she could avoid getting caught up in the frenzy of Christmas shopping and be more self-controlled in her spending habits. The evangelist opened his response
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Book by Lila Ellexson Senter Reminds Readers (and Revellers) What Christmas Is All About Through various “word gifts”‚ the author instills in readers the authentic definition of the occasion: a threefold gift of love‚ family‚ and faith. The Gift (Xulon Press‚ 2015) by Lila Ellexson Senter offers readers a rare opportunity to appreciate Christmas through certain forms of literature and visual arts. The book makes a wonderful and meaningful gift to anyone who would bother to flip the pages and digest
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A leprechaun is a type of fairy‚ it’s a green‚ loving‚ Irish fairy. The irish wear green because not only is it a tradition now but it is also a good luck color. Green is the color that symbolizes happiness. Those little short irish fellows that have a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow are only about three feet tall some of those little guys are angry little men but mostly they are jolly and loving. Leprechauns once wore red instead of green but that was only prior to the twentieth century there
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The Russian fairytale Jack Frost echoes many of the same characteristics as the Grimm tales. Jack Frost begins with a girl who has a cruel stepmother who hates her and tries to get rid of her. The stepmother convinces the father to leave his own daughter to die in the middle of the forest in winter. However‚ when Jack Frost‚ a personification of winter‚ comes to freeze her to death he is swayed by her kind words and instead rewards her with treasures. When the daughter returns wealthy and beautiful
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Three wise men day January 6th is a special day in Mexico‚ because it is the three wise men day‚ this holiday represents the height of the Christmas season. Three Kings Day is a Christian holiday also known as Día De Los Reyes Magos and Epiphany. It revolves around the adoration of the three wise men‚ or magi‚ who visited the infant Jesus after his birth. The history of this tradition is that the three wise men‚ whose names were Gaspar‚ Melchior and Balthasar‚ traveled a far distance
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One day Jimbo was Trick Or Treating all by himself on a dark‚ vague Halloween night in his neighborhood. He was moving house stocking up on large amounts of candy. Jimbo was about ready to start heading home until the saw this mysterious Jack-o-lantern. Jimbo went to the Jack-o-lantern and it seemed to grow more and more bigger when the approached it‚ it grew like Jack and the beanstalk. Jimbo got right next to the Jack-o-lantern and touched it‚ then suddenly…… Jimbo had a problem a big problem‚
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You are sitting in your warm house on christmas morning with the excitement of seeing all the presents under your beautifully lit tree‚ what your not thinking about is that somewhere in the world at the same time there is a little girl sitting in her small‚ cramped two room house that she shares with her big family of six. While you are opening your all your extravagant gifts‚ your mom is preparing the feast for christmas dinner‚ the little girl your not thinking about is cold‚ and hungry‚ her parents
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Propaganda‚ or a parenting tool? What many parents see as innocent‚ many others‚ including a child psychologist‚ may not and rightfully think so. The negative effects of Elf on the Shelf range as child psychologist‚ Dr. David Kyle Johnson‚ states in his excerpt. Not only does this little holiday tradition pose a threat to children‚ it also does for parents too. The strings attached to Elf on a Shelf vary from iPhone apps‚ television programs‚ and even a website. The potential dangers to relationships
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aS little girl‚ one of the signs that indicated the Christmas season had begun was when I saw the Salvation Army bell ringers standing in front of the local stores. It amazed me to see how friendly they were. Often I found myself wondering such things as: did they ever get tired of smiling and ringing that bell‚ how do they help people and what did they do with all of the money they collected? As I have matured‚ I have had various opportunities to see what the Salvation Army has done within our
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An introduction of Me! Collage Journal To start‚ there are two sides to my Collage –blue and pink‚ my favorite colors (I know‚ they are girly‚ but I like them.) On the pink side‚ I have a cut out a piece of a map. This is because I collect/horde maps. I travel all the time‚ and when I started to collect maps‚ I thought that they would be cool souvenirs from where I have been for wherever I am going. On top of the map‚ I have a CD to basically say that I also collect/horde CDs. The sticker
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