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I’ve been thinking about Christmas traditions which made me think, “Which Christmas traditions honor and point to Jesus?” I grew up in a home of unbelievers, so although our traditions were not bad, they didn’t point to Jesus. My husband’s family was a godly family that had some Jesus honoring Christmas traditions. We have adopted most of them into our family. I wonder how many others want to honor Jesus at Christmas, but don’t know how because they weren’t raised in a home that honored Jesus at Christmas.

We have two traditions that we do before we ever open a single present. We read the Christmas story (Luke 2:1-20) and usually the story about the wise men (Matthew 2:1-12) and then we sing “Happy Birthday.”

What does your family do to honor Jesus at Christmas?

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Cindy 1y ago

Nativity set that my mom hand painted for me is up Dec 5-Jan 5 and we’ve always made a birthday cake for Jesus and sung after Christmas dinner. Instead of a candle we have a nativity ornament on top.

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Liberty Gal 1y ago

A homemade nativity sounds lovely and very meaningful. We've got one that my husband's family got in Israel. It has much more character than the standard store bought nativities.

My husband hates that all of the nativities he sees have the wise men, who didn't show up till much later, so he sets up the wise men in the guest bedroom to the east of the main nativity.

Cindy 1y ago

I set my wisemen away also for the same reason. Mom hand painted her nativity set nearly 50 years ago and painted mine nearly 30 years ago. Definitely a set I treasure as it could never been replaced. I love that yours is from Israel. Also not replaceable!