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Welcome to the resource side of our website. Here you will find more than 400 links to studies in a wide variety of doctrinal topic areas. These studies are intended to be comprehensive and to relate a step-by-step, reasonable analysis delving deeply into the scriptural texts. (We also offer video and audio presentations of some studies.)

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February 13, 2025

Is Jesus the reason for the season?

The biggest holiday of the year for many people is Christmas. In our modern society Christmas is traditionally considered to celebrate the birthday of Jesus. And it can be frustrating for Christians when the holiday is celebrated as a non-religious festival of gift-giving and Santa Claus. Consequently, there has been an ongoing effort to "keep Christ in Christmas." Given the important place that this holiday has in the lives of many Christians perhaps it is worth looking into the history and origin of Christmas and how it has come to have such significance in the church today.

For more information on
the origin and history of Christmas and a biblical look at Jesus' birth, please see our study entitled:

Celebrating Christmas

Q:I'm new here. Where should I get started?
The arrangement of topics to the left provides a recommended reading order. It is designed to reflect a step-by-step progression from more basic topics to more complex ones. However, it is not necessary to follow this order. Those who are more familiar with certain topics may easily read whichever studies are of interest without first going through all of the earlier topics in the list.

systematic theology:
a reading guide

logical fallacies
a list of false
arguments