Los Angeles Times: Altadena’s Christmas Tree Lane survives. Volunteers hope to turn the lights on again
Altadena’s 104-year holiday lighting tradition known as Christmas Tree Lane escaped damage from the fire despite a torrent of embers coming down on its historic deodar cedars. Fierce Santa Ana ...
Altadena’s Christmas Tree Lane survives. Volunteers hope to turn the lights on again
Christmas Tree Lane in Altadena is a neighborhood holiday lights extravaganza that’s taken place nearly every year since 1920. 135 deodar cedars stretching nearly a mile along Santa Rosa Avenue ...
The Best of Christmas Like many of history’s most enduring stories, this one took the most unlikely of turns. A virgin woman bears a child, promised by an angel and conceived by God. Born in a crowded town near Jerusalem, the infant has for His nursery a stable—His makeshift crib, a feeding trough. But shepherds worship the boy, and a powerful king fears Him. And when He has become a man ...
This post was first published . -ed. Meet another man who missed the first Christmas: Herod. Matthew 2 tells his story. He was...
The Real Meaning of Christmas The story’s told of a little girl who’s passing out the presents to her family on Christmas morning. After finding gifts for each member of her family, she was puzzled that there wasn’t a gift for the One whose birth was being commemorated. “I guess everyone forgot about Jesus,” she said. If you want a truly meaningful Christmas season, it stands to ...
Some were sentimental, saying Christmas is a family time, a time for children, and so on. Others were humanistic, seeing Christmas as a time to celebrate love for one’s fellow man, the spirit of giving, and that sort of thing. Others were crassly hedonistic, viewing Christmas as just another excuse to party.