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The Keeping Christ In Christmas website was formed to:

	Share the good news of Jesus Christ and the true meaning of Christmas.
	Inform the public with history, news, humor, carols, and stories for a Merry Christmas
	Assist toward the true celebration of Christmas

	Decorating homes, churches, business, vehicles, and ourselves.
	Identifying with the truth of Christmas

Counter the culture's secularization of Christmas and the secular's purposeful usage of "Happy Holidays" in lieu of "Merry Christmas"

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AMERICANS PREFER THE TRADITIONAL “MERRY CHRISTMAS” EXPRESSION, BUT WHAT ABOUT KEEPING CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS?

Veritas Expressions LLC and Website Launch Was Established to Positively and Boldly Profess Christ in CHRISTmas.

According to United Marketing, ninety-one percent (91%) of Americans celebrate Christmas.  Furthermore, sixty-nine percent (69%) of Americans prefer stores to use the phrase “Merry Christmas” in their seasonal advertising over the generic “Happy Holidays.”  A Rasmussen Reports survey of over 1,000 adults finds that just 23% prefer the “Happy Holidays” greeting.  Fifty-nine percent (59%) of respondents say they will attend a Christian church service on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day while nearly one-third (32%) will not.  Married Americans and middle-income Americans are most likely to attend Christmas services and there is little difference by age or gender.  Politically, eighty-five percent (85%) of Republicans report a preference for “Merry Christmas.” However, 61% of Democrats and 60% of those not affiliated with either major party hold the same view. 

Interestingly, like “Merry Christmas”, “Happy Holidays” has it own Christian origin.  According to Charlie Brents, “Christmas” is one word formed from two words: Christ + mass.  The word “mass” was used to indicate a feast day or festival.  Therefore literality Christmas means the Festival of Christ.  Traditionally, this Festival of Christ lasted twelve days from the birth of Christ on December 25^th to the coming of the Magi, called Epiphany, on January 6^th – both of those celebratory dates and names have their own complicated history.  “Merry” was used to describe a pleasant (merry) meal.   So the real, original meaning of “Merry Christmas” in English was a wish (and a greeting) for the other person to have a pleasant festival of Christ.  Whereas “Holidays” is an Old English word used to denote a religious festival, a consecrated day called a “holy day” – a day set apart.  That’s right.  The origin of Happy Holidays is the wish for someone to have “happy holy days!”  So the next time someone wishes you “Happy Holidays,” you can just say, “Yes! Happy Holy Days to you too!” and you’ll be right on target. 

First, observe Advent.  For the four weeks prior to Christmas, step up your devotions, focusing on Christ’s first coming.  Use an Advent Wreath at home.  Unfortunately, our culture has drawn out the Christmas season to the extent that it has marginalized the actual celebration of Christmas.  The word advent means the anticipated arrival of something momentous.  Therefore, wait for the time of Advent before Christmas caroling and Christmas decorating.  Let Advent be Advent.

Second, think differently about presents.  Often we get so involved in the presents and the foods of Christmas that we make them the focus and the objective of the holiday.  Instead, accustom yourselves to think of the gifts given and the food shared as a celebration of God's gift of salvation to us through Christ.  When a gift given is a token of something greater than itself, that is, Christ's gift to us, then the giving becomes less an exercise in consumerism and more a lesson that "It is more blessed to give than to receive" (Acts 20.35).

Third, attend worship on Christmas Eve and/or Christmas Day.  Making the time to receive the ministry of the Word of God and corporate worship as the centerpiece of your Christmas observance goes a long way to putting things in their proper perspective.  Once we get reacquainted with the radiance of God’s love as shown in the Gospel, then the lights on our Christmas trees and on our houses seem to shine brighter, too. 

Finally, add a spiritual dimension to your family celebrations.  Sing together, do not only sing "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", but emphasize religious carols like "Joy to the World", "Silent Night", "O Come, All Ye Faithful", and many others.  Read the Christmas Gospel from Luke 2 and talk about it.  Say some Christmas prayers and focus your heart's attention on the wonder that you are the undeserving but beloved object of God's eternal love and your salvation is assured through Christ's atoning death and resurrection.

Finally, Veritas Expressions LLC was formed in 2005 as a positive response to the “Merry Christmas” vs. “Happy Holiday” debate.  Its stated mission is to boldly express the Christian truth of Christian holidays.  In November 2006, Veritas Expressions launched the www.KeepingChristInChristmas.com website to educate, inform, and encourage the celebration of Christ in CHRISTmas.  The website also offers a variety of new gift ideas (e.g., buttons, bookmarks, lapel pins, vehicle magnets, tote bags, black long sleeve & short sleeve shirts, and simulated neon signs) with a simple but distinctive theme that boldly expresses Christ in Merry CHRISTmas.

We at Veritas Expressions pray that you will be blessed with a Merry and Holy Christmas!