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  • Spread the Good News: THE LORD IS RISEN!

    04/11/2004 5:23:17 AM PDT · by AAABEST · 143 replies · 1,606+ views
    God the Father Almighty ^ | 04-11-04 | The Father, Son and Holy Spirit
    Matthew 28 1Early on Sunday morning as the new day was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went out to see the tomb. 2Suddenly there was a great earthquake, because an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and rolled aside the stone and sat on it. 3His face shone like lightning, and his clothing was as white as snow. 4The guards shook with fear when they saw him, and they fell into a dead faint. 5Then the angel spoke to the women. "Don't be afraid!" he said. "I know you are looking for Jesus, who was...
  • Calculating Christmas: The Story Behind December 25

    12/13/2003 4:59:44 AM PST · by rhema · 34 replies · 2,631+ views
    Touchstone ^ | 12/03 | William J. Tighe
    Many Christians think that Christians celebrate Christ’s birth on December 25th because the church fathers appropriated the date of a pagan festival. Almost no one minds, except for a few groups on the fringes of American Evangelicalism, who seem to think that this makes Christmas itself a pagan festival. But it is perhaps interesting to know that the choice of December 25th is the result of attempts among the earliest Christians to figure out the date of Jesus’ birth based on calendrical calculations that had nothing to do with pagan festivals. Rather, the pagan festival of the “Birth of the...