Comments on: Spurgeon on Christmas

By: Music For The Christmas Season - Matt and Nancy Heerema

Music For The Christmas Season - Matt and Nancy Heerema — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:22:41 +0000

[...] Also, don’t forget to mix these in with your regular repretoire! Nowhere is it written that just because it is December, you have to pick from an entirely different set of music! There are plenty of “advent” songs among our typical repretoire. Also, just to be inflamatory, I have in the past, blogged some priceless Charles Spurgeon quotes on Christmas. [...]

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Rock Worship » Archive » Music For The Christmas Season — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:14:37 +0000

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 21:12:14 +0000

Spurgeon is clearly reacting to Roman Catholicism and elevating tradition to be equal to or greater than Scripture. In light of that, his words bear their truest meaning. He is not dissing Christmas as much as the rationale behind celebrating Christmas. Now that Christmas is a normative, time-honored celebration of Christ's birth and not a subservient gesture to Catholic church, I think that it's far more appropriate and honoring to God for us to celebrate it.

So Matt, are you planning on taking down your Christmas tree and refusing to exchange gifts this Christmas or are you just being a Scrooge?

By: nate

nate — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:30:34 +0000

i'd say it's as offensive to some (or more than) "faith" is.

x3watch (accountability software) definately thinks it is.

any passionate* consumers out there would think so in the context i used it.

anyway, i meant naughty more in the context that it being used on your site might get the users of x3watch in trouble if they read your blog... naughty.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:31:32 +0000

Whore is a naughty word?

By: nate

nate — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:30:01 +0000

no, i was talking about “whore”, but i guess “faith” can be pretty offensive too.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 03:18:10 +0000

what word, faith?

By: nate

nate — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 22:08:50 +0000

you betcha.

mostly because i'm a family head now, i feel alot more responsibility to lead correctly, and to not blindly accept anything i've grown up with. i've spent alot of time really going over all the things sarah and i do and spend money on, making sure that we do them in faith and confidence, not habit or norm.

i can't drop christmas like spurgeon hinted at in faith, so i wont. but i also can't teach santa, shop like a consumer whore, or decorate my house with secular things to celebrate my savior's birth, in faith.

"convinced in his own mind" is the key, i think you're right.

ps. sorry i used a naughty word. :(

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:10:04 +0000

Ya, the balance was really helpful for me.

I guess my main beef is that most people don't take the time/effort to become "convinced in their own mind" they just do something because "that's the way it's always been done..."

Does that make sense?

By: nate

nate — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:54:00 +0000

mmmmm...

good thoughts, and wise posting of balancing point! i agree though, i like spurgeon's quote alot more though. but so that i don't become a fool, i'll remember romans 14:1-6 as well.