Merry Christmas 

'Merry Christmas' was written at a request for a song with Merry Christmas as the title.  I had written ‘Happy Christmas’.  I said sure.

'Merry Christmas' is said so much at that time of the year, it said with emptiness or meaningless.  Christ’s Mass has to do with Catholicism, which I was delivered out of over thirty years ago.  But the term Christ’s Mass or Christmas has become the title of the celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth.

He was born more likely in October.  We are never told to remember his birth or to celebrate it.  Yet we do.  We are to remember his death every time we hold the Lord’s Supper.

If the true meaning of Jesus Christ’s birth is missed or doesn’t bring sinners to repentance, it is an empty holiday.  Jesus was born to die for sinners of whom I am chief.

Bruce