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The three lessons that Christmas teaches our culture

2 December 2022

12:21 PM

2 December 2022

12:21 PM

Christmas is popular. Nearly every Australian can’t wait to put up their lights and decorations. Retailers rush to sell them as early as possible and tell us all it’s Christmas.

Of course, no one actually says it’s the celebration of the birth of God’s Anointed One, His Divine Son clothed in humanity, born in poverty to a working-class family in Roman-occupied Judea-Samaria.

‘Progressives’ have helped us move on from anything anchored in history.

No commercial or official public observation of the season acknowledges the profoundly spiritual significance, and the fulfilment of the long-prophesied life and mission of Jesus the Christ.

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