Why Do We Call It Christmas?Sample

[The video portion of this devotional is not available on your device. To view this video, visit your plan at www.youversion.com] The story of Christmas trees is fascinating! The tradition started in Germany hundreds of years ago. Tribes of people decorated trees to honor their gods, including the very powerful god Thor. The Oak of Thor was a huge tree that no one cut down! A Christian missionary named Boniface, who was there to spread the good news about Jesus Christ to the people, chopped down Thor’s oak to prove that Thor was a false god, not the true God who loved them and created them in his image! Nothing happened! They all began to believe in Jesus, and Boniface told them to use an evergreen tree to represent Christ, because its green leaves were constant and never-changing, like Christ’s love. So today we honor Jesus through evergreen trees at Christmas! Let’s praise God for His powerful love and how He always loves us, no matter what.