"It's a Simple Story....A Child Was Born"---(The war on Christians)

12/22/04 | redrock

[redrock]

If you sit quietly anywhere in Southern Utah..and just watch and listen..the sheer magnitude of God's work hits you like a ton of bricks.

redrock

[Kathy in Alaska]

Merry Christmas to the redrock family.

[windchime]

Merry Christmas, redrock!

 

[tobyhill]

Thank You redrock

I too wish you a Merry Christmas.

While many in our FREE society wish to steal our knowledge in faith of our lord, this is the year in which we take it back and put it in it's rightful place, throughout America and hopefully the rest of the world.

May God Bless all faithful and cast the evils from our midst.

[MSSC6644]

Merry Christmas, redrock. Thank you for remembering me. May the light of His birth illuminate the hearts and minds of all mankind. May the peace of Christ be with you.

[Rad_J]

Merry Christmas, redrock!

Also, Merry Christmas Freepers.

[joanie-f]

You have the gift of always creating an original, incredibly eloquent tribute on Memorial Day and at Christmas time. This one is no exception. A heartfelt thank you, Mike.

Below is another quote, by another man who was always able to find the words to describe what was in his heart. His words closely echo yours.

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Meaning no disrespect to the religious convictions of others, I still can't help wondering how we can explain away what to me is the greatest miracle of all and which is recorded in history.   No one denies there was such a man, that he lived, and that he was put to death by crucifixion.  Well consider this and let your imagination translate the story into our own time -- possibly to your own hometown.

A young man whose father is a carpenter grows up working in his father's shop.  One day he puts down his tools and walks out of the shop.  He starts preaching on street corners and in the nearby countryside, walking from place to place, preaching all the while, even though he is not an ordained minister.  He never gets farther than an area of perhaps one hundred miles wide, at most.

He does this for three years.  Then he is arrested, tried, and convicted.  There is no court of appeal, so he is executed at age thirty-three along with two common thieves.  Those in charge of his execution roll dice to see who gets his clothing -- the only possessions he has.  His family cannot afford a burial place for him so he is interred in a borrowed tomb.

End of story? No, this uneducated, propertyless young man who left no written word has, for two thousand years, had a greater effect on the world than all the rulers, kings and emperors; all the conquerors, generals and admirals; all the scholars, scientists and philosophers who have ever lived -- all of them put together.  How do we explain that ... unless he was really who he said he was.  (Ronald Reagan, 1982)

[redrock]

"....unless he was really who he said he was."

What some in the world just don't 'get'.

Which means we need to work a little harder this coming year.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

redrock

p.s...Ronald Reagan was the Best.Period.

[redrock]

"...this is the year in which we take it back and put it in it's rightful place, throughout America and hopefully the rest of the world."

Agreed!!

redrock

[redrock]

I always remember people I like and appreciate.

You and yours have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Mike

[redrock]

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

redrock

[redrock]

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

redrock

[redrock]

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

redrock

[Age of Reason]

Thank you.

And Merry Christmas to you, too.

[arasina]

Merry Christmas to you as well!

[First_Salute]

Merry Christmas

[redrock]

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

redrock

[diegodeigh]

And a happy New Year to you and yours, my Brother.