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1. Ashley

   Wednesday, December 31, 2025 at 1:23 pm

   Thank you for making these word searches available. Keeping small hands busy in the cold of Winter is important! 🙂

   Sally, have you every addressed or written about those who say Christmas is pagan and Christians shouldn’t celebrate? They say it is a Catholic holy-day and that we should have nothing to do with it. (or Saturnalia) And often reference Jeremiah 10.

   Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family!

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   • Sallie Borrink

     Wednesday, December 31, 2025 at 2:20 pm

     Hi Ashley,

     I’m glad you can make good use of the word searches! I’m moving all of them to free as I have time.

     I’ve never tackled the Christmas issue because it wasn’t something I ever struggled with. It seems to me that Jeremiah 10 has to be taken completely out of context in order to make it about celebrating Christmas. (I have had people tell me I shouldn’t celebrate Christmas while using that passage.) But I’ll put that topic in the back of my mind to think about as a possible post.

     I struggled far more with Halloween which is why I think I wrote and rewrote that post about three times. I struggled a LOT with that because of the imaginative child I have.

     Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you as well!

     Sallie

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     • Sallie Borrink

       Wednesday, December 31, 2025 at 2:22 pm

       This is the Halloween post for anyone who hasn’t seen it and is curious.

       https://sallieborrink.com/why-we-changed-our-mind-about-celebrating-halloween

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     • Ashley Muniz

       Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 1:36 pm

       Hi Sallie,
       It would be interesting if you ever have the time, to tackle the ‘Christmas is Pagan’ issue. What I’ve heard/read is the following: It’s the mass of Christ (which protestants don’t want to join up with, basically it’s “Rome’s Day.” There’s a lot on youtube about it, one video is on The Tyler Wood Encounter channel. “The Pagan Festivals of Christmas and Easter” book by Shaun Willcock on amazon. Alexander Hislop’s “The Two Babylons”—I think is where a lot of this stems from. I know hardline Baptist’s and Calvinists are (not all, but a lot of them) are against Christmas. Supposedly Charles Spurgeon spoke against it.
       There’s a new book out “Full of Grace and Truth” by R.L. Solberg on amazon. (I haven’t read it yet, it’s about the truths of Christmas)
       In my reasoning, to take away Christmas and Easter would take away the few times per year Christ is mentioned openly and the beautiful carols/songs and society would seem very secular. (more than it already is and is becoming)
       I don’t see how it is “more holy” to not celebrate, not see family or just sit alone on Christmas telling one’s family they don’t celebrate. Certainly scaling back gifts to not go into debt, based on ones budget is fine and doing Christmas simply based on one’s energy level is fine too! And no one HAS to do Santa either if it makes them uncomfortable. This topic would make an interesting series.

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       • Sallie Borrink

         Wednesday, January 21, 2026 at 3:11 pm

         Hi Ashley –

         I was cleaning out bookmarks today and saw I had this one. I thought you (and others) might find it interesting.

         https://www.kirkdurston.com/blog/christmas

         Sallie

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         • Ashley

           Wednesday, January 28, 2026 at 8:22 pm

           Thank you. Very good article! (bookmarked!)

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