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Na u no fine , na u dey form.

Wen dame jonadaff is d one picking babes for oga Joe. She thinks being a president is garri.

Woman use ur head, becos 3 billion ladies re queueing up to b in black house.[size=18pt]atleast I pass Obama for woman, click like if u think my babe is finer than highly rated Obama's wifey.[/size]

must u insult our first lady? SMH

HOPE THIS WONT AFFECT EKET BEACH TOMOROW ?

mysticgal: ah austenex abin think say you no the celebrate christmass
@pendusky that a beautifull ballon.howv do you do the write up and you pasting your name,teach me

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am in... Practicing the Piano for Tonight Carol Night!!! O'Come All Ye Faithful my Best Music for Tonight...



What does Christmas mean to you? lets have ur view here
https://www.nairaland.com/1567289/what-does-christmas-means

it depend on the level of love you have for your mum...

he never profit in it?

Thats gud!!

What does Christmas mean to you? lets have ur view here
https://www.nairaland.com/1567289/what-does-christmas-means

Nice if it happens

What does Christmas mean to you? lets have ur view here
https://www.nairaland.com/1567289/what-does-christmas-means

thats how 2015 will be

What does Christmas mean to you? lets have ur view here
https://www.nairaland.com/1567289/what-does-christmas-means

TOMORROW is the D-Day for (Most) Christians all over the world to celebrate Jesus Christ the Son of God whom HE promised to Sent to save mankind. The Piece below shows my own reasons and what Christmas means to me as a christian. Please Lets us know your own view... Thanks


Christmas was all about fun as I knew it then as a child. My siblings and I would think of new cloths, toys, shoes, and Christmas trees and lighting that mummy would buy and it’s going to be fun all season long at amusement parks with Santa Claus and eateries. It’s a season of exchanging cards and gifts to our neighbors and friends it’s always seemed churlish to refuse invitations to family friend’s houses during this season.



To me then, Christmas was nothing but fun.I understood then that it was all about Jesus’ birthday, but “where is Jesus to celebrate His birthday with us and to blow His candle lights”? I would asked Mum and Dad, “Because He is in Heaven watching you celebrating Him” was always their reply.



Each year passed by and I realized the reason for Christmas was far more than what I was thinking of as a child.



Christmas is a holiday sets aside by Christians generally on December 25, its commemorates the birth of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity.The date is not known to be the actual birthday of Jesus, and may have initially been chosen to correspond with either the day exactly nine months after some early Christians believed Jesus had been conceived, the date of the winter solstice on the ancient Roman calendar, or one of various ancient winter festivals.



To me; Christmas means joy in the City of David (Luke 2:11), It’s a season of extolling God with the multitude of the heavenly host (Luke 2:13), Christmas is a season of worship and thanksgiving (Matthew 2:11), It’s a season of Love (John 3:16) It’s a season of gifts giving its depicts the wise men gifts. (Matthew 2:11), It’s a season of Manifestation of God’s promise in our lives (Isaiah 7:14) Christmas is humility its depicts where Jesus was born. Christmas is caring; Christmas is in the air, is joy, Togetherness, peace, passionate, tender, its overwhelming wow. Christmas is a beautiful and colorful flower that blooms once in a year which dispels all fears, it unfurls a smile in the heart of the world. Christmas to me as a christian is inevitable, its inexorable event, its extricable, its awesome…Hurray!



Above all, Christmas is a season of rededicating our lives for a Saviour is born as it was was promised.

written by Pendusky






In Response to Our Pastors telling us the Xmas is Wrong:

Flash back Pastor Kumuyi was a Guest Minister at one of Edition of Akwa Ibom State #9999CarolSingers Christmas carol Night in Uyo is now telling us that carol singing and Christmas celebrations is wrong. Someone was asking me if his view comes because it was Oyedepo's turn to feature in this year's carol in Uyo? Seriously, I'm confused... http://9999carolsingers.com/index.php/about-us

Anyway If you feel Celebrating Christmas is a sin, Please dont Celebrate your own Birthday, Never Receive any Christmas Bonuses at your work place otherwise you are celebrating with us..


I want to specially wished everyone on NairaLand a Merry Christmas!!!

Shalom

amedino: LMAO.. I hope this make FP

how are we sure thats not u?

people hate maths thats why this thread has few comments

Sexkillz2: Just in case you're broke, no need to buy 2014 calendar because it's the same as 1992 and 2005 calendar.


Don't forget to thank me later

ure post is wrong 2014 hav a photocopy of 2003 calender

you can have mine if ure broke

[quote author=pen-is_hard_one]Me think say I heard, 1,999 and not 9999.Please anybody from AkwaIbom should reconfirm the figure.[/quote]lol, even when the stadium is more than 1,999, The 30,000 capacity Akwa Ibom Int'l Stadium will be ready by next year, so expect 29,999 carol singers next edition... I wasnt making any mistake bro its 9999 carol singers...

madukovich: The buzz is allover town as the bells toll for Christmas and all that accompanies it. You'll hear things like, "it's a season of love and sharing", like it's the opposite we've been practicing all year long, or are even supposed to practice all year long.

It's considered a Christian festival and tradition, though with its commercialization, it's become an all-comers affair.

It's only the ignorant that'll continue to associate it with the birth of the Saviour of mankind. It doesn't come as a surprise to many that His birth date will be falsified, seeing that even his original name YAHSHUA was substituted for the now more popular Jesus.

Because I suspect that many still don't know that YAHSHUA (falsely referred to as Jesus, as it goes against all linguistic norms to translate anybody's personal name, or even substitute it, without such a one giving due approval) wasn't Born on Christmas day, I'll just throw a little light on the subject.

I'll start with what we all agree on, before moving on to the area(s) of contention. People who agree with the letters of the New Testament have no disagreement with the fact that :-
- the Saviour while on earth lived for Thirty-Three and Half years.
- He died during the feast of Passover which took place around April, commemorated as Easter by many Christians about the same period (April).

The above will put the time of birth around October. There are other factors which make December an improbable date of birth for the Saviour (though the above is just enough for the discerning mind), which includes the fact that shepherds won't be doing outdoor nomading in the chilly periods of December as the stories surrounding Christmas will have us believe.

The fact that Christmas has a pagan origin isn't lost on many. Amongst other pagan rites associated with Christmas is the festival of Saturnalia (which was observed for a week, climaxing on the 25th of December), widely practiced amongst Greeks and later, the Romans. The activities prevalent in the celebration of Christmas today mirrors closely those officially accepted as norm during Saturnalia back in the day, and includes widespread intoxication, going from house to house while singing naked, rape and other sexual license. Murder wasn't left out with burglaries, armed robberies and unfortunate incidents that heralds this so called "SEASON OF LOVE".

It was in the 4th century CE, that Christianity imported the Saturnalia festival hoping to take the pagan masses in with it. Christian leaders succeeded in converting to Christianity large numbers of pagans by promising them that they could continue to celebrate the Saturnalia as Christians, and of course they had to find justification for this imported pagan festival.
Today, many who have also come to the knowledge of this and other damning evidence cloak their shame with words such as,"it doesn't really matter which day He was born, what matters is the spirit behind the celebration", but the evidence of the activities of that "spirit" is laid bare for all to see. Some Christians are even fighting to bring back the spiritual into a now commercialized Xmas and the "riot" associated with the celebration of Christmas isn't totally lost on those who know the riotous origin of Saturnalia. It sure is living up to expectation if you asked me.

A few days ago, parents in an elementary school in the United States were stunned to find that words associated with "Christ" and relating to his birth in "Silent Night" were struck off, so as not (according to school authorities) offend the sensibilities of those who though celebrate Christmas, do so without any acknowledgement of any form of Christianity associated with it.

The only mention of anything close to the traditions of Christmas in the Bible is found in Jeremiah chapter 10 verse 3:
"For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4. They deck it with silver and gold; fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not."

An apt description of the Christmas tree and we are admonished to "....learn not the way of the heathen..." in verse 2 of the same chapter.
The stories surrounding the "Star of the Moment", Santa Claus is the most ridiculous ever, so is the mistletoe and other associated paraphernalia which have no spiritual or biblical background, yet touted by clergy and sheepishly observed by their followers and non-followers worldwide.

It will make sense if this festival was celebrated really for what it truly is and represents, than to drag the Saviour of mankind into it, but those who understand the workings of the "Angel Of Light", will read through the charade and understand that Christmas is one of those white lies that further separates man from his creator than move him closer.

He that hath an ear, let him Hear!

'kovich



JESUS WASN’T BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY | madukovich's cogitations - http://madukovich./2013/12/22/jesus-wasnt-born-on-christmas-day/

its an old story, if you guys cant celebrate him then back off!! Christmas day is a day set aside to celebrate him by Christians, so back off if u wer born into a group that dont celebrate his birth.

I was expecting Mynd_44 to FP this thread!!!

The best thing abt #9999CarolSingers is that GOD is always at d centre...not as so-called xmas carnival in some states that promote nudity..

Victoriousvic: Praise and worship session about to begin

thanks for updating...

Frank Edward on stage... Frank Edwards#9999CarolSingers #AKS9999CAROLNIGHT #AksCarolNight

happening Live from Uyo Township Stadium, Akwa Ibom State 9999 carol singers in Akwa Ibom Carol Night!!! Live feeds here https://www.nairaland.com/1564603/2013-ibom-govt-xmas-carol

: Great to see our #Uncommon Gov. Godswill Akpabio in High Spirit! #9999CarolSingers

some fireworks heard outside the Stadium...crazy people outside the stadium

http://ntanews24.tv/24Live.html Live Coverage here!!

9,999 xmas carol service, the arrival of His excellency, the governor n rendition of the national anthem.

ITbomb: Pics or u will be ban

Thers pix ther brother am going to upload them as i snap them... Pastor David Oyedepo in Attendance...

I will like my friends in Uyo stadium to Feed this thread with live updates you can watch the live event on AIT


Roll out the red carpet. Blow the trumpet. Proclaim in nooks and crannies of Nigeria and Akwa Ibom about the favourite programme. Join thousands to herald the world-class event. Hook onto your television sets and internet service. Sing hallelujah to the Lord. Once again, this year’s Akwa Ibom Government Christmas Carol Night is here.

A roll-out banner put in front of Governor’s Office, Uyo explicitly tells the story “God’s own Party is here again. Attend the 2013 AKSG Xmas Carol Night by 6 p.m. on December 21, 2013 at Uyo Township Stadium. Gate: free. Come and sing with 9999, the largest Assembly of carol singers on the planet”.

The programme which was initially conceived as a state project has gained prominence as a global event. And so, the first curtain of the programme fell on December 26, 2008, with a world-breaking record of 9,300 choristers. It broke the Guinness World Record of the largest assembly carol singers of 7,514 singers at the Bob Jones University in South Carolina, United States of America in 2004.

more on this visit http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/11/2013-aibom-govt-xmas-carol-night/


For this year, acceptance of Bishop David Oyedepo, the General Overseer of Living Faith Church

EEEYA! PLS MAKE THEM ALLOW HER TO CLOCK 18 FIRST COZ I KNW THE SALOON ALREADY ITS MADE FOR +18YRS ONLY...