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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Though Christmas has become a retail extravaganza, its holiday roots ...

The birth of Jesus was a divine intervention, the moment God Himself stepped into our world as a baby. Now this, in itself, is a gift beyond measure, a gift of love, grace, a gift of salvation that ...

Among all the jubilation of buying and opening presents, eating turkey and drinking champagne, it can be difficult to remember the true meaning of Christmas. Christmas, of course, celebrates the birth ...

In the last few decades, that knowledge has taken a back seat to the hustle and bustle of shopping, parties and Santa Claus. Even the "comfort and joy" heralded is more about general feelings of ...

Probably all of us realize that there are three separate liturgies for Christmas with three separate sets of readings: the one that we use during the night, the one that is taken from Luke's Gospel ...

In John 3, Jesus describes the beginning of a person’s relationship with God through Christ as being “born again.” Many things may work together to bring a person to the point of accepting Christ as ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Christmas is the most magical time of the year, fondly looked forward ...