Last night my wife and I went out on a date to hear a Celtic music band, the Irish Rovers, play in Nanaimo’s Port Theatre. I guess the Irish Rovers, who’ve been playing music together for over 40 years, regularly do a Christmas concert tour. And since one of the band members lives here, they make it a point to play here on Vancouver Island.
I’m not a big fan of the Christmas music genre, but I found the Rover’s selection of covers and original material toe tapping. I loved the irony in “Grandma got run over by a reindeer” http://www.turnbacktogod.com/grandma-got-run-over-by-a-reindeer-irish-rovers/ whose lyrics go like this:
Grandma got run over by a reindeer walkin’ home from our house Christmas eve. You can say there’s no such thing as Santa. But as for me and Grandpa, we believe.
She’d been drinkin’ too much egg nog. And we’d begged her not to go. But she’d forgot her medication, and she staggered out the door into the snow.
When we found her Christmas mornin,’ at the scene of the attack. She had hoof prints on her forehead, And incriminatin’ Claus marks on her back.
Grandma got run over by a reindeer, walkin’ home from our house Christmas eve. You can say there’s no such thing as Santa, but as for me and Grandpa, we believe.
Now were all so proud of Grandpa. He’s been takin’ this so well. See him in there watchin’ football, drinkin’ beer and playin’ cards with cousin Belle.
It’s not Christmas without Grandma. All the family dressed in black. And we just can’t help but wonder: Should we open up her gifts or send them back? (Send them back)
Grandma got run over by a reindeer, walkin’ home from our house Christmas eve. You can say there’s no such thing as Santa, But as for me and Grandpa, we believe.
Santa Claus is, of course, nonsense: a cherished prevarication with which our culture loves to deceive its children. Why do we so enjoy telling lies to our children instead of teaching them the truth? Christmas ostensibly is set up to worship Jesus Christ. Should we teach lies as part of our Christianity? How important is truth to the Messiah?
6Jesus said… I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me. (John 14:6 AMP).
Jesus is our door to the Father of life and eternity. It is the Father who is seeking at this time, through the offices of Jesus as mediator, those human beings who care deeply about believing and doing what is true.
23 The time is coming when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, and that time is here already. You see, the Father too is actively seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” (John 4:23-24 New Century Version).
The whole Santa Claus thing as well as the December 25 date that is fixed as Jesus’ birthday are fictions. The Bible’s internal evidence plainly witnesses that Jesus was born in the fall not in the winter. Yet this doesn’t seem to matter to most people who, ironically, live by the mindset of the man who crucified Jesus rather than worship Him.
37 “You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”38 “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. (John 18:37-38 NIV).
Are you on the side of the truth?
