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Kirsten Powers: Becoming a Christian Ruined My Love of Christmas
Christian Today ^ | December 17, 2015 | Kirsten Powers

Posted on 12/20/2015 9:11:23 AM PST by QT3.14

...During this time I was single, and friends set me up on a lot of dates. When they asked me if there were any deal breakers, I explained there was only one: No religious people.

Shortly after I made that declaration, I started dating a guy who mentioned, in passing, that he attended a Presbyterian church. I flinched. But I liked him, and because I was so religiously illiterate, I didn’t understand that some Presbyterian churches are evangelical. I assumed he was a cultural Christian, like the few other Christians I knew.

A few months into the relationship he confronted me with a question I didn’t expect to get from any person I knew: “Do you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior?”

(Excerpt) Read more at christianitytoday.com ...


TOPICS: History; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: apologetics; bornagain; christian; christmas; jesus; liberal; religion
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To: CodeToad

Have you actually read the article. Its a very powerful testimony if you read the whole thing. Its basically a story of how she got saved and the only thing that changed about her view of Christmas was that she now was unhappy with how commercialized and focused on Santa Clause it has become.


21 posted on 12/20/2015 9:23:51 AM PST by dschapin
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To: QT3.14; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON; KC_Lion
Shortly after I made that declaration, I started dating a guy who mentioned, in passing, that he attended a Presbyterian church.

She probably changed all his radio station and stole his Jesus fish.

22 posted on 12/20/2015 9:23:53 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: QT3.14

Her mind is being renewed - give it time. Only the Holy Spirit can reveal to her what she said here - God became Flesh to be the Savior of Mankind.

I’ll know she’s progressing much further when she leaves the Abortion Party.


23 posted on 12/20/2015 9:24:48 AM PST by time4good
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To: Hildy

Maybe because they didn’t read the story.


24 posted on 12/20/2015 9:25:37 AM PST by American Faith Today
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To: QT3.14
Kirsten Powers: Becoming a Christian Ruined My Love of Christmas

Lousy headline and totally misleading from the contents as written by Ms Powers - perhaps done for shock value. Note that this is not a new article freshly written but instead; " ... adapted from The Christmas Virtues: A Treasury of Conservative Tales for the Holidays (Templeton Press)."

What Ms Powers actually articulates is that she has lost her 'love' of the commercial Christmas and moved to the appreciation of the Christ-centered Christmas. A very logical step for one who has become a Believer!

This is the pertinent paragraph from this adapted article; "But then I realized that I had allowed the secular celebrations of Christmas to crowd out its transcendent meaning. As theologian N. T. Wright points out, it's Christmas that is the moment when God launched a "divine rescue mission" of humankind."

25 posted on 12/20/2015 9:26:10 AM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

This article and the others she has written about her faith have I am certain caused her no end of scorn from her friends and co workers. She has a sincere faith and needs our support not our ridicule. I admire how public she has been about her testimony and I pray that God would continue to lead and guide her.


26 posted on 12/20/2015 9:26:26 AM PST by dschapin
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To: QT3.14
God didn’t just condescend to come to earth as a human. He came as a helpless infant. The King of Kings was born amid barnyard animals and piles of hay after His lowly parents were turned away from better lodgings. …
They were not turned away from anywhere. Caesar Augustus had caused chaos by his census, resulting in all returning to their birth city; so the inn was full to the brim already.
27 posted on 12/20/2015 9:26:26 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: dschapin

Liberals are the most hate-filled, mean-spirited, envious, resentful, vicious, close-minded, violent, murdering, censoring, book-burning, ignorant, uneducated, unskilled, childish, prejudiced, racist, women-hating, man-hating, perverted, thieving, destructive, American-hating, Christian-hating, muslim-loving, communist, vulgar, dirty, smelly, regressive, restrictive, prohibitive, bed-wetting, and scared little lying idiots God has ever created.

They are NEVER Christian. They only time they declare that is if there is something to be gained from it.


28 posted on 12/20/2015 9:26:52 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Hildy

Thank you for that post! I too actually read the article.

I found her story wonderful. A person is surrounded by atheists, feminists and worse, politicians, and the love of Christ finds and saves her.

And she is right (which is not something I often say about Kirsten Powers). I still love the glow of a Christmas tree, the music, decorations and gatherings, but I know it is all a far, far distant second to the true meaning of the season. That realization does take the shine off of what most people think of Christmas. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.


29 posted on 12/20/2015 9:27:17 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Hildy

I dont think they read the article, but instead just the title.


30 posted on 12/20/2015 9:28:01 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: Obadiah

She’s absolutely right regarding the Christmas celebrations. If a Martian were to land here the week before Christmas he certainly would not get the impression that people were paying respect to a God.


31 posted on 12/20/2015 9:28:51 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Hildy

I am Roman Catholic, and find her piece honest and exceptional. Jim glad to read other FReepers (of other faiths) believe so as well.

I have followed other articles on her conversion to Catholicism. She is on a journey and is sharing (and inspiring) along her progression.

Happy Chanukah to you!


32 posted on 12/20/2015 9:32:18 AM PST by PennsylvaniaMom ( Just because you are paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you...)
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To: American Faith Today

It still strikes me as her “hatred” of Christmas comes about from her left wing politics. Im tired of listening to people bitch about Christmas. Its pretty much the only thing anymore which embraces our traditions, youth, and the feeling of love being with friends and family.


33 posted on 12/20/2015 9:32:49 AM PST by StevieRay20
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To: Hildy

Excellent post Hildy, thanks for saying what I was thinking!


34 posted on 12/20/2015 9:37:46 AM PST by Husker8877
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To: Hildy
Did you actually read the story?

Thanks, I needed that laugh on Sunday, actually reading the story before need jerk comments. Funny, you crack me up.

35 posted on 12/20/2015 9:39:03 AM PST by 11th Commandment ("THOSE WHO TIRE LOSE")
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To: Hildy

Sometimes Jews make the best Christians. Just saying.


36 posted on 12/20/2015 9:40:05 AM PST by FerociousRabbit
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To: Obadiah

She has changed over the years. She was once a reactionary leftist. Now, she is more conservative than many Republicans. She still tilts left but you can see a glimmer of hope once in a while.


37 posted on 12/20/2015 9:42:45 AM PST by FerociousRabbit
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To: QT3.14

Kirsten Powers is now a Catholic joining the ever increasing list of notable converts to Catholicism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_converts_to_Catholicism


38 posted on 12/20/2015 9:43:02 AM PST by Steelfish
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To: CodeToad

You are sadly mistaken. Christ died for everyone and honestly it is easy to see the effects of Kirsten’s salvation on her life. I honestly am more worried about your bitterness, please remember not to let your love grow cold.


39 posted on 12/20/2015 9:44:51 AM PST by dschapin
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To: TexasFreeper2009
I don't think they read the article, but instead just the title.

That's part of the unofficial rules for this site. As is defending one's thoughtless quip after being outed for not reading the story.

40 posted on 12/20/2015 9:49:35 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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