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"Weece said the services being offered on Christmas Eve were still technically the "first day of the week" if one went by the custom of starting days at sunset, which some believe was the case in Jesus' day."

Its more than custom. The Liturgical Sunday begins late on Saturday afternoon. A Christmas Eve liturgy would be the Liturgy for Christmas.

"Christmas began as a pagan holiday to the Roman gods, and if we were to really celebrate the historical birth of Jesus, it would either be in January or mid-April. I'm only pointing out the historical technicalities not out of intellectual arrogance, but again because of the illogical, ill-informed and even hypocritical arguments that were aimed at me personally this last week."

That's sort of right but mostly wrong. The Feast of the Annunciation has always been celebrated around March 25th in the East, even before the celebration of the Feast of Christmas. Do the math. The fact that the Saturnalia occurred in December is a fortuitous circumstance.

"Liturgy?" "Liturgical calendar?" "Feast of Annunciation?" "Saturnalia?" It's much easier just to take the Bible and believe God's Word. (Colossians 2:8-16). No man is bound to holy days in New Testament Christianity.

At every church I've ever attended, there were Christmas eve services and a Christmas day service. Even if Christmas day fell on a Tuesday. It was usually just one service even if the church regularly had two in the mornings. At my old church in Pittsburgh, there's a 10am service replacing the usual 8:15 and 11:00 Sunday services.