It might seem absurd to talk about Jesus celebrating Christmas. You can easily think of a long list of Christmas-type things we do now that Jesus never did. Certainly, he never hung up his stocking on the chimney on Christmas Eve. He never wrapped presents and put them under the Christmas tree. He never sang Christmas carols. He never listened to Handel’s Messiah. He never sat down to a turkey and stuffing and cranberry sauce meal with his family. But the point of Christmas is that it celebrates the birth of Jesus and reflects on what he did for mankind. …
Jesus and Holidays
Jesus and the Miserable Thanksgiving
It might seem silly to ask if Jesus celebrated Thanksgiving. Obviously, he never sat down to a dinner of turkey and cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. He never watched the Bears play the Lions on TV. He never had to listen to weird Uncle Joe talk about his very annoying political views—the ones everyone else in the family hates. But the American holiday of Thanksgiving goes back to a feast in 1621 shared by the fledgling Plymouth colony and the local Wampanoag. That feast celebrated a successful harvest, and it has biblical roots in the annual harvest festival in the …