PROTESTANT HO-HO, CHRISTMAS CAROLS, SONGS FOR CLASSIC PROTESTANTS, PURITANS, COVENANTERS, REFORMERS! sermonaudio/new_details3.asp?ID=23184. Christmas Is A Roman Catholic Missions Strategy puritandownloads/christmas-is-a-roman-catholic-missions-strategy/. ow.ly/EjMBI $200 OFF THE DOWNLOADABLE PURITAN HARD DRIVE (PHD-ODE) UNTIL 11:59PM (ET). WAS $297.97, NOW, FOR A SHORT TIME, JUST $97.97! (WINDOWS ow.ly/EjMBI) (MAC ow.ly/EjMs7) LOWEST PRICE EVER. SAVE BIG NOW! ow.ly/EjMBI Christmas was not celebrated by the apostolic church. It was not celebrated during the first few centuries of the church. As late as A.D. 245, Origen (Hom. 8 on Leviticus) repudiated ...the idea of keeping the birthday of Christ, as if he were a king Pharaoh. By the middle of the 4th century, many churches in the Latin west were celebrating Christmas. During the 5th century, Christmas became an official Roman Catholic holy day. In A.D. 534, Christmas was recognized as an official holy day by the Roman state.The reason that Christmas became a church holy day has nothing to do with the Bible. The Bible does not give the date of Christs birth. Nowhere in the Bible are we commanded to celebrate Christmas. Christmas (as well as many other pagan practices) was adopted by the Roman church as a missionary strategy. - The Regulative Principle of Worship and Christmas by Brian Schwertley FREE BOOK at swrb/newslett/actualNLs/CHRISTMAS.htm or on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/dZ3ua. The most complete collection of classic and rare Puritan and Covenanter works. We rejoice to see so many long out of print works available in an easily affordable & searchable format. - Brian Schwertley on the Puritan Hard Drive bit.ly/ci3g2z. 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On this topic George Gillespie (a Scottish Covenanter and Westminster Divine), in his classic work, A Dispute Against the English Popish Ceremonies Obtruded Upon the Church of Scotland (on the Puritan Hard Drive bit.ly/ci3g2z), writes, Forasmuch then, as kneeling before the consecrated bread, the sign of the cross, surplice, festival days (Christmas, Easter, etc.-ed.), bishopping, bowing to the altar, administration of the sacraments in private places, etc., are the wares of Rome, the baggage of Babylon, the trinkets of the whore, the badges of Popery, the ensigns of Christs enemies and the very trophies of Antichrist: we cannot conform, communicate, and symbolize with the idolatrous Papists, in the use of the same, without making ourselves idolaters by participation. puritandownloads/history-of-holy-days-sabbath-lords-day-christmas-easter-etc-by-dr-steven-dilday/ A Dispute Against the English Popish Ceremonies Obtruded Upon the Church of Scotland by George Gillespie (Book at puritandownloads/a-dispute-against-the-english-popish-ceremonies-obtruded-on-the-church-of-scotland-1637-reprinted-from-the-1660-edition-by-george-gillespie/) Christmas: 8 New Free Reformed MP3s ow.ly/xXZCD It is commonly objected, that we may as well keep a day for the nativity, as for the resurrection of Christ. We have answered already, that Christs Day, or the Lords Day, is the day appointed for remembrance of his nativity, and all his actions and benefits, as well as for the resurrection. - David Calderwood (Covenanter), on the Puritan Hard Drive at ow.ly/fPY4o The Puritan Hard Drive is out of this world in terms of usefulness! - Pastor Mencarow ow.ly/dZ3ua In 1899, the General Assembly of the PCUS was overtured to give a pronounced and explicit deliverance against the recognition of Christmas and Easter as religious days. 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The Puritan Hard Drive (ow.ly/fPY4o) provides primary sources and depth of theological and spiritual insight which is lacking in much of what is passed off as genuine Reformed theology. If you think of yourself as conservative, the older Puritan and Reformed authors will help you sort reality from myth in your quest to be truly Reformed. There are more solid resources for less money here than anywhere else. I highly recommend you take responsibility for your soul and spend a few shekels for this cup of cold water in the midst of the modern religious desert. - Jim Dodson, Reformed Presbyterian Scholar, covenanter.org/ - ow.ly/fPY4o PROTESTANT HO-HO, CHRISTMAS CAROLS, SONGS FOR CLASSIC PROTESTANTS, PURITANS, COVENANTERS, REFORMERS! sermonaudio/new_details3.asp?ID=23184.
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