Because it really does matter….oh so very much <3

We went to hear this cutie sing with his choir yesterday morning…

grabbed lunch and headed south to hear this one…

play with the Greenville presentation of portions of Handel’s Messiah…

her eleventh year to do so, I might add <3

All of it was beautiful…and I am going to attempt to add a short video at the end of this …we shall see…

The music of Christmas is so rich even though some of it can get annoying…

as in…

Santa Baby…just saying…

and there are others.

But some of it is just dead wrong.

We listen to Christmas stations on Pandora at the shoppe and one day I heard a new Christmas song about the baby and Mary and it sounded pretty so I checked the artist.

A popular group that I would never have associated with sharing the Gospel so I was intrigued.

I googled the lyrics and discovered much truth and one slight lie.

The story line captured that Jesus came and that He loved people and that we missed the mark.

But it also inferred that He met Mary Magdalene through a business transaction…I hurt typing that.

I thought surely I was wrong so I read some of the comments under the lyrics and found the most disturbing discussion as precious few, like me, took exception and many added so much more false information about Mary…about Jesus.

It broke my heart.

The only thing we know about Mary Magdalene’s sin struggle is that she was delivered of seven demons….

even though many confuse her with another Mary…

this is not truth in Scripture.

The second part that is so alarming is that many of the comments were about…

who cares if He did do this…He was just human.

Excuse me?

Having respect for Jesus as a good man…

a man of love and compassion…

a man who cared about people…

celebrating a holiday because people feel all warm and gooey inside and do nice things..

this would be the greatest loss of Christmas.

In the words of Scripture …

we have a sin problem…

all of us.

And Jesus came to take it on and pay the price.

Born of a virgin

To live a sinless life

To suffer

To die

To rise

To ascend

His Name shall be called…

Wonderful Counselor…

Everlasting Father…

King of kings…

Lord of lords…

Prince of Peace….

Emmanuel…

GOD…

with us <3