November 29, 2015: So This is Christmas – Landon Lynch

Lights. Tinsel. Trees. Parties. Busyness. Gifts. Materialism. It must be Christmas season! Which is honestly one of the most backward things we can do, isn’t it? I mean, if we are honest we all say we know the real reason for the season, and yet we fall prey to it year after year. Perhaps we could condemn the materialism and stress that are so rampant and connected to Christmas each year or – better yet – we could explore what the birth of Jesus was really about.

The answer? Liberation. Jesus, was and is the one, who came to set us free from the very things that enslave us each year in all areas of our life. It will do us good as we head into Advent to not fool ourselves into thinking about life as categories of political, economic, religious, etc. But understand Jesus and Christmas are about the whole of life – material and spiritual. Which means when we take a good hard look at the birth of Jesus we must take a good hard look at our whole selves.