As reported on CNN, the billboard below recently went up on Rt. 495 at Kennedy Blvd (on the NJ side, right before the Lincoln Tunnel entering Manhattan).
What is happening to our nation that was founded on Judeo/Christian principles? Are we like the frog in that kettle, unaware that the heat has been turned up and that we are in grave danger of losing our freedom to worship God?
Those who oppose the public display of nativity scenes become more militant every year. Public schools now celebrate Christmas as a “winter holiday.” Retail stores want the business Christmas brings but are careful not to mention Christmas in their ads for fear they will alienate someone. More often than not when the name of Jesus is spoken publicly it is in derision rather than reverence. “Political correctness” demands tolerance for every belief but Christianity!
I’ve never forgotten the words of a friend who grew up in Switzerland before the start of the Second World War. She said, “The church in Germany saw what was happening, but the church in Germany was silent.”
What of the church in America today? What about you? What about me? Will we remain silent? Is it a “myth” that Jesus has changed more lives for the good than anyone who ever lived – that He has changed your life? Will “reason” bring peace on earth and hope for the hopeless? Will we deny Him or proclaim Him as King of kings and Lord of lords?
Father, please stir us to action. And please, as people drive by this billboard, blind them to the lie it proclaims. Cause them to only see Jesus in the manger and to KNOW that Jesus is the reason for the season!
Write His Answer 
You are so right, Marlene. We must proclaim our faith with more fervor than ever, so those in darkness will come into the light. I wrote my first tract this year, “From Outlaws to God’s Kids,” and am believing that one million people come into God’s kingdom as a result of it. I will continue to Write His Answer to my dying day! Jesus is Lord, and He is real. Reason without God is a myth.
I will drive by there this Saturday. It reminds me of the title of my manuscript “Christian Mythology”. (Don’t worry. Jesus is not one of them.) The organized church can oftentimes be the worst enemy of God when they believe, teach, and spread words that are not found in God’s Word. The atheists latch right on. It makes Dawkins’ job easy when he can pick on church tradition. He has comparitively little to say about quoted Scripture lived out in truth.
I pray God will use this sign to wake up some Christians. There’s a war going on in heaven.
What a disgusting advert. So sad to see this in the US as well as Britain. It should not be tolerated. It insults our beliefs.
Even my local buses now say, ‘Sunday is a day of rest’ but the rest has been crossed out and replaced with the word ‘shopping’!
Sadly, it is not surprising to see that an organization like this has placed this ad. But like you prayed Marlene, may people be blinded to the falsehood of the words printed and only see the picture that broadcasts the truth of the babe in the manger – Christ, the Son of God who came to save us from our sin. The Word of God stands forever – nobody can ever eliminate it! May we proclaim that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life!
Susan, you’re comment is interesting: perhaps many truly will only see the nativity image when they drive by! I had an interesting experience years ago when I sold my off-loom woven wall-hangings at the Pike Place Market in Seattle. One woman bought one that had a cross woven into the center of it. She said, “I love the way this design has interlocking squares. It will be good to meditate with.” I smiled, thinking that one day, while doing that, the cross was likely to jump out at her–and then what would she think?