Yes, you read that headline correctly.

Remember that place in the Bible where John come tattling to Jesus because someone was trying to cast out demons in the name of Jesus? “I told him to stop,” John said. “Because he isn’t one of us.”

Jesus basically said “No, let him keep helping people. If he isn’t against us, he is on our side.”

I have always felt that way about certain Christmas traditions that other people feel violate their conscious. (To each his own.) And, I do think we have worried way too much about how commercial Christmas has become. I was always of the opinion that the more tinsel we spread the more chance we have of including the true message somewhere along the way. And now, I’m vindicated!!

We just got a beautiful Christmas letter from friends who serve in the Middle East. They report Christmas lights and Santa sightings all over the place. Even on Mosques! The commercial Christmas has become so popular in their region, that the local public school has invited one of our friends to come in and present the “traditional roots of Christmas” two years in a row.

Oh, yeah. That’s right. Santa Claus opened the door for our friend to tell the entire Muslim high school about the baby Jesus and why He came.

Hoorah!

If you will excuse me now, I’m off to watch Miracle on 34th Street. Again.