‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all thru the earth, every creature was stirring, beneath the sad curse.
Our burdens and sorrows were hung in despair, in hopes a deliverer might someday care.

The orphans lay sleepless all night on their beds, while visions of family eluded their heads.

And I in my sorrow, my friends in their [...]

The road to Bethlehem from Nazareth is about 60 miles.
The road to Bethlehem from heaven was a million miles of God’s love and sacrifice.
Scripture gives us the travelogue of God’s journey to redeem His creatures.
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, [...]

A search on the history of the Christmas holiday yields this timeline…
The earliest Christians do not appear to have commemorated the nativity, but only the baptism and resurrection of Christ and the deaths of the martyrs.
Traditions say that it has been celebrated since the year 98 AD
137 AD - the Bishop of Rome ordered the [...]