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Hillsong’s Christmas Flesh Parade Continues

Hillsong is incorrigibly lascivious and they put their worldliness on display each Christmas season by productions that are a unique vaguely theistic blend between Cirque de Soleil and a Victoria’s Secret runway show. This year is no exception, as Bobbie Houston’s Instagram reveals. Houston posted the photos of barely clad dancers and body contortionists on … Read more

Pope Uses Christmas Address to Praise Immigrants Instead of Jesus

Pope Francis used his Christmas address to praise and glorify illegal immigrants. On a day typically reserved to set politics aside and remember the Christ-child’s birth, the first pope belonging to the Jesuit Order preached Liberation Theology instead of the traditional Christmas narrative. Liberation Theology, born out of the Communist Revolution in South America and … Read more

Vatican Demands Church Rehire Openly Gay Priest

[ LifeSiteNews ] The Congregation for the Clergy, the body of the Roman Curia responsible for overseeing matters regarding priests not in a religious order, has asked the bishops of Haarlem-Amsterdam to retract two decrees by which they suspended and then fired a parish priest after he publicly proclaimed his homosexuality and dissolute lifestyle. This … Read more

A Contrary View of Christmas from AW Pink

Not all good Bible teachers believe Christmas should be celebrated. Although we are not in agreement at Pulpit & Pen with the ‘sinfulness’ of Christmas, we certainly respect others to retain the opinion and are open to hearing their arguments. Consider the following from renown 20th Century theologian, A.W. Pink. He wrote as follows: “Thus … Read more

The Real Saint Nick

[Ligonier] It might surprise many today to find out that Saint Nicholas (spoiler alert) is a real person after all. Is he the white-bearded man with a red suit, a cap, and a sleigh? Not quite, but he probably was bearded, did wear a hat, and did travel in horse-drawn, not reindeer-drawn, transportation. The legend behind … Read more

The Heartwarming Tale of the Christmas Truce of 1914

The Christmas Truce occurred on and around Christmas Day 1914, when the sounds of rifles firing and shells exploding faded in a number of places along the Western Front during World War I in favor of holiday celebrations. During the unofficial ceasefire, soldiers on both sides of the conflict emerged from the trenches and shared … Read more

Presents and Punches: A Christmas Sermon from JD Hall

This 2014 message entitled ‘Presents and Punches‘ deals with the original “Saint Nick” and his hatred of heresy. Drawing from historical accounts and the real meaning of Christmas, JD Hall explains how we ought to celebrate the birth of Christ and how we should think about Saint Nick if we think about him at all. … Read more

John Calvin and Christmas

John Calvin celebrated Christmas but did not believe that he or anyone else should be forced to observe the day, which is often associated with pagan traditions of popery. This is Calvin’s response to the issue… “Now, I see here today more people that I am accustomed to having at the sermon. Why is that? … Read more

Spurgeon and Christmas

[The Spurgeon Center] It’s true. Charles Spurgeon had a love/hate relationship with Christmas. In seventeenth-century England, Christmas was often associated with moral laxity and splurging. The Puritans resisted the Roman Catholic flavor of the festivities, and so did Spurgeon. Like his predecessors, the preacher often played the Scrooge and humbugged the holiday. “Certainly we do … Read more

ACLU Demands Menstrual Products Be Placed in Men’s Bathrooms and Prisons

On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) declared that menstrual products must be provided in mens restrooms because men cam have periods too. ACLU released a statement saying: “While free menstrual products are not uniformly provided in women’s restrooms, they are almost never available in men’s restrooms, even for pay. Men’s restrooms are also … Read more

Public School Kids Made to Kneel And Pray to Allah in Arabic

[RT] A Swedish school decided to familiarize its fifth-graders with Islamic worshipping by having a teacher recite Koranic verse to them and having them pray facing Mecca, in a bizarre set-up the educators called “role play.” An offbeat “religion lesson” was taught at the Bjurbäck school situated in the south of Sweden, according to Samhallsnytt news outlet. … Read more