How do the Duggars celebrate Christmas? In the following video, Josh Duggar, who is visiting from Washington D.C. with Anna and his three (soon to be four) kids, gives viewers a tour of the Duggar house at Christmastime. The oldest of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's 19 children shares what his family does to spread Christmas cheer to people in their hometown and across the world. Michelle also explains why the Duggars have chosen not to have a big Christmas tree. And hear from newlyweds Jill and Derick Dillard and Jessa and Ben Seewald.
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From our family to yours, we wish you a blessed Christmas!
JIll looks ready to pop
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Jim Bob & Michelle you may have a Christmas tree but your family can wish a happy Christmas . Your family has gone a lot over the years in this fan of the Duggars family I wish all the Duggars family Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year&have a safe one.
ReplyDeleteat the end, who is the guy on the left of Amy???
ReplyDeleteI'm not completely sure but t looks like Amy's boyfriend
DeleteAmy's boyfriend
DeleteLoved this! Merry Christmas Duggar Family!
ReplyDeletewho is the guy in the back with a beard?
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DeleteJoy to the world indeed! GOD bless your Christmas hearts lived sincerely, all year long. Jill you are magnificently with child!
ReplyDeleteMerry (Christ)mas Ellie and Lily! Thank you for such a wonderful site. May God bless all of you through the coming year.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to your family from ours. May you have a blessed day filled with lots of love! Really enjoyed watching the video and thank you for the beautiful song. God Bless you all.
ReplyDeleteWe will always have Christmas trees in our home for the Holiday but I respect the Duggars decision not to have one. We of course have a beautiful Nativity too! Merry Christmas Duggar family! ♥
ReplyDeletevideo not working, tried twice will let you watch ads but then says cant connect to watch video. :( Christmas eve (ohio time at 6pm)
ReplyDeleteAwesome!! Love their message of investing in the lives of others at Christmastime!! Giving not Getting for sure!!! And such a beautiful family!! Have a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year yall!!
ReplyDeleteHi Lily and Ellie, just wanted to let you know that there is no video attached with this post :( thank you for always doing such a wonderful job on this blog. Merry Christmas!!!
ReplyDeleteHi Anonymous at 7pm,
DeleteWere you able to watch the video? We re-uploaded it. :)
Hope you had a blessed Christmas.
Lily and Ellie
just want to wish the best Merry Christmas and Blessed New Year,
ReplyDeleteThat was great! Thanks for sharing! We have just finished celebrated our Christmas Eve. We had a great feast and the Missionary Sisters joined us. We don't do a tree either. We have a festively decorated chandelier with garlands, glass balls and a pine tree ornament with a lion lying down with the Lamb. Merry Christmas and may we all remember that He is the Gift.
ReplyDeleteJosh Duggar, you're a great guy, but you seriously need to make your health a priority! Think about your children!!
ReplyDeleteIs that a surveillance camera over the music corner???
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas and I love all you! You are a blessing to me. I can't wait to see more of your show!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Duggar, Dillard and Seewald families. May God bless you all. It was very special to view this on Christmas day in Australia (which comes before your Christmas day).
ReplyDeleteFor Christmas this year we passed around a gift box and said 'Happy Birthday Jesus' and prayed a personal prayer to Him telling Him of the personal gift we want to give to Him this Christmas and then passed it on to the next person, finishing with Daddy who prayed for us all. A special time to stop and be thankful to our Father for giving us Jesus. I loved the gifts you prepared for neighbours. Thanks for your inspiration and pointing us always to Jesus.
wonderful, wishin you all a blessed Christmas
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Duggars
ReplyDeleteThank-you so much for the friendly welcome into your home at Christmas! Merry Christmas to All!
ReplyDeleteMerry CHRISTmas Duggars!! Thanks for being Godly examples! ��
ReplyDeleteI love your family and I love CHRISTmas and the joy it brings into our lives. Merry Christmas.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Duggar Family hope you all have a wonderful day and God Bless you all
ReplyDeleteMerry christmas!
ReplyDeleteWow, thankyou VERY much for sharing on the off season of ur show. Lily and Ellie, thank you for sharing all of our beloved Duggar news, and have a very Merry Christmas.Sincerely, Natalia
ReplyDeleteMARRY christmas
ReplyDeleteSalvation is free and doesn't have to be earned? Isn't that what they are doing by their long hair, skirts, pants only on guys, very restrictive music, no dancing, etc? I think they are working very hard for their salvation..unnecessarily hard IMO.
ReplyDeleteSomething of notice here; I was wondering how often in a given week do the older Duggar girls and Michelle shampoo, dry and style their hair? With such long hair, it would take an abundant amount of shampoo, and time to dry, curl and style that hair. The hair tutorial earlier posted was only in the curling of their hair. One would imagine that a great deal of time is involved in the drying and styling of this coiffure. I know many have wondered this, thank you.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Lily and Ellie! Thanks for all that you do!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to them, and to Ellie and Lily and family as well! Thanks for all your hard work on the blog and encouraging them and us as well
ReplyDeleteMERRY CHRISTMAS DUGGARS, DILLARDS & SEEWALDS !!
ReplyDeleteA very Merry Christmas to you all and a very blessed New Year!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely, happy video so full of the true Christmas spirit especially with two pregnant ladies in it. God bless you and I hope its a Happy and Holy Christmastime for you all.
ReplyDeleteWe did away with our tree this year. I did not feel it kept the focus on Jesus. We now use a nativity as our "tree" and place gifts around it. We love it!!! Merry Christmas to all!!
ReplyDeletewonderful video. Thank you. Jill looks ready to give birth. When is she due? She looks great though.
ReplyDeleteHi Anonymous at 6:43pm,
DeleteJill is due March 24th.
Hope you had a blessed Christmas.
Lily and Ellie
So, Michelle was not clear as to the reason there is no longer a Christmas tree in their home?
ReplyDeleteThanks Josh for the tour and a look at your wonderful family! Love the shirt (Christ)mas very fitting! MERRY CHRISTMAS from the O'Connell family in Rhode Island :)
ReplyDeleteGreat video! Merry Christmas Duggars!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Duggar Family , Jesus is the reason for the season , May God continuely bless your family , I pray for you we pray for all , God bless .♥♥♥♥♥
ReplyDeleteGod bless
ReplyDeleteThank you both for all your dedication maintaining this site and providing so much great updates about the family.
ReplyDeleteOur family hopes you had a blessed Christmas day and enjoy fellowship with your families.
All the best!
I think Michelle was perfectly clear.
ReplyDeleteOne reason was that they want to focus on Christ, not a big tree.
Another was that they have little kids and it's hard to keep them out of the tree and that it's been knocked over a few times.
Sounds like they want to keep the focus on Jesus, and they decided they'd rather decorate their house and not have a tree.
Such a sweet good Christian family.Merry Christmas DUGGAR family.jkj
ReplyDeleteAwesome way. Merry Christmas to the Duggars from.Oklahoma
ReplyDeleteDid anyone notice that Jessa is wearing pants? At the end when the family is coming together to sing, she is on the far right. And as she moves toward the family, you can see her in pants/jeans until Josh gets in front of her!
ReplyDeleteActually its a shorter black skirt to the knees with black leggings underneath, so it all blends in and it just looks like pants...some looks can be deceiving.
DeleteHI, I lost my identical twin sister in june 2014, my question is your twins very close ? do they do a lot of things together? northern calif gal
ReplyDeleteI did notice the pants, very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI thought Michelle couldn't hold babies older than 6 months due to a missing back muscle? Why is she always holding Josie? Seems she can't stand still for long. Did her muscle miraculously regenerate?
ReplyDeleteMichelle dodged the Christmas tree question because we all know that they think a Christmas tree is a pagan thing. It's been said before. What family doesn't have small children at one time or another and manage quite well to NOT have them knock it down? Everyone.
ReplyDeleteThat's Jessa, not Jinger with leggings under a skirt again. They really need to just go ahead and admit that it's better to wear pants and get it over with. Putting a skirt over what are skinny jeans, seems silly. Some nice jeans, or leggings with a tunic sweater over it would be the right fashion move and certainly not immodest. No one would mistaken any of the Duggar girls for being a man.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely loved that! I also love what JOY stands for. If more people knew the meaning, there would be peace on Earth! Thank you Duggars for keeping God first and sharing with the world your testimony. Have a blessed new year!!!
ReplyDeleteWow..Jessa is wearing pants!!! Good for her. They look more like stretchy leggings than denim, but they are definitely some sort of pants. I am happy for her. She looks so nice in them too.
ReplyDeleteMary Duggar seems to try to keep a better sense of how she dresses.
ReplyDeleteJessa is wearing a skirt with leggings underneath, it looks like.
ReplyDeleteRe: Jessa wearing pants. I don't think she is. It looks like she is wearing a skirt & leggings. However, the value goals are modesty and femininity for women and modesty and masculinity for men, not do or don't wear pants. As adults Ben & Jessa have the responsibility to decide how to run their household and to choose what they wear. It would not be shocking or scandalous if they make decisions that are different from their parents, while having the same value goals.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree. As long as none of the girls wear something to overly prove that they're women I'm sure no one in their family would really care.
DeleteAbout earning salvation:
ReplyDeleteSalvation is FREE, by grace through faith, only by the blood of Jesus. After we are saved, we show our love for the Lord by obeying Him. In the New Testament Jesus tells us "If you love me you will obey my commandments". The Holy Spirit living in us also can convict us about things. These are *personal* convictions. Some of those things may be wearing skirts, having long hair, etc. We need to obey these convictions from God as well.
Not to earn or keep our salvation but b/c we LOVE the Lord, and what little we need to give up to obey Him is nothing compared to what He's given for us.
@Anonymous, I thought I'd give Jessa 2 points for wearing pants but it looks like she's wearing a short black skirt w leggings.
ReplyDeleteThis is really bizarre. What exactly is Josh selling in this odd commercial?
ReplyDeleteJessa had a skirt on with some sort of 'pants', typical to what they always do. Suited to winter too.
ReplyDeleteGood for Josh, he is articulate, concise, cheerful, progressive, encouraging, etc. getting on with it.
ReplyDeleteThere's another surveillance camera in the kitchen!!!
ReplyDeleteWhy does Josh make that ugly face when he talks about food?
ReplyDeleteJILL DILLARD (just trying to get this to stand out) be careful with spice food! It can cause premature labor
ReplyDeleteTo Anonymous comments "about earning salvation" .Great response!!! To all of you who are focussing on what Jessa was wearing. ..it looks like you missed the point of this video.God have mercy on you!
ReplyDeleteI respect everyone's opinion to have or not have a tree. But for me, having a tree brings me great focus on my Savior Jesus-Christ. The Christmas tree or the Ever green tree, is a symbol of everlasting life because that particular tree stays green most of the year. Just as through Jesus Christ we can have eternal life through His atonement and Grace. And the lights that decorate it symbolize how Jesus is the light of the world. I love looking at ours when it is all dark and ponder how much light and Joy Jesus Christ has brought me in my life, and how that through Him I can live forever in happiness. I love our tree! But as I said, I value everyone's right to celebrate the holiday however they choose :)
ReplyDeleteDoes the Bible tells women to wear skirts? I've been a Christian for about 15 years and it wasn't until I started to watch 19 kids and counting a couple of years ago that I found out about the skirt thing. Have I missed something here?
ReplyDeleteThe bible does not tell women to wear skirts. Back in the days that it was being written, both men and women wore the same types of cloaks anyway. Look at your biblical movies...see any guys in pants? NO. So pants were designed for men, dressed for women and later on LADIES' slacks were designed and cut for women. I see no contradiction there in theology or modesty. It's just Mr. Gothard's preference of how a woman should look; hair included...Logically, any style created for women are oriented for women. I guess men choose simply to not have skirts (other than kilts) designed for them, that's why men don't wear them. Not a God commanded thing at all.
ReplyDeleteThe Duggars are a wonderful Christian family, living the Word of God in word and deed!
ReplyDeleteThe Bible states in Deut. 22:5 that the woman shall not wear that whiche pertained unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are a Monica ton unto the Lord thy God.
ReplyDeleteWhat bible was Jim Bob reading. from and what version of the bible was they putting in there bowls to give away?
ReplyDeleteJessa always looks so shy in front of Ben
ReplyDeleteWell, I tried to comment about this before, but was having a problem sending it.....I was so disappointed to hear that you do not support homosexuality.....People do not choose to be gay....they are born that way.....God loves ALL people.....gay, straight, black, white, Jew, catholic, Muslim.....it would be interesting if God deemed one of your children or grand children, gay.....would you forsake them? thanks for listening.....
ReplyDeleteWhy does Jinger have darker skin than the rest of the kids. Her eyes are different as well.
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ReplyDeleteThank you for allowing us to share the holidays with you. This year has been hard and somewhat sad for my little family but your beautiful blog has allowed us to feel the joy of Christ. I am not sure if it matters but it seems that Jessa is wearing leggings and a cute skirt. Merry Christmas to the Duggar Family and to everyone. May the New Year bring God's blessing to each of you. Thank you for showing the love and hope that comes living for God.
Pants for men didn't come into fashion until around the 1600s. How do they account for that being biblical? The bible was written well before that. There are slacks that are designed and CUT for women. That is not wearing men's clothing; and pants can be much more modest than a skirt any day.
ReplyDeleteJessa in a blue skirt and gray leggins looks weird, she probably should've worn some black leggins if any. Or longer skirt. She did have some gray color in her top, but still I did not like a combination. By the way, how Michelle is able to hold 5-year old Josie? Josie is too big for that!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 30: I have very long hair. It's down a little past my waist and I can tell you that about 1 tbsp. of shampoo and 1 tbsp. of conditioner is all that is needed.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 63: Well said!
As for the leggings, I wear skirts with leggings during the winter for warmth!
Love their huge nativity.
Anonymous 80: I think I read somewhere that Jinger tans.
The Christmas Tree is a Christian symbol... study the origin and the extensive history of the Christmas tree... this tree represents the Tree of Life... the Cross... the tree upon which Our Lord is crucified later. This is why it is a big tree, and why it is decorated. The gifts are placed under the tree as a symbol of graces given to all of us because of the price Our Lord paid for our redemption. In some countries food and candy is placed on the tree for the same reason, with a more direct reference to Our Lord's Body and Blood in the Blessed Sacrament. The tree and the nativity scene also have several foreshadowing elements that are similar to the scene of Our Lord's passion, death, and burial. How He came into the world, is also how He died.
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