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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Thanksgiving Day Prayer

O God, when I have food,
help me to remember the hungry;
When I have work,
help me to remember the jobless;
When I have a home,
help me to remember those who have no home at all;
When I am without pain,
help me to remember those who suffer,
And remembering,
help me to destroy my complacency;
bestir my compassion,
and be concerned enough to help;
By word and deed,
those who cry out for what we take for granted.
Amen.

- Samuel F. Pugh

TimeRewind: A Day Of Thanksgiving ( the 50s )

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

The Pilgrims
* Do you get the Pilgrims and Puritans confused?
Remember the Pilgrims came first. They were Separatists and gave up on the Church of England. The Puritans stayed in England, trying to purify the church but finally gave up and came to America. Both words start with the letter "P" but the second letter in Pilgrim is "i" while the second letter in Puritan is a "u". Since "i" comes before "u" it was the Pilgrims who came first.
* The first Thanksgiving wasn't really a Thanksgiving, it was a Harvest Feast which was common in England. The Pilgrims did have a Thanksgiving in 1623 when they prayed for rain and guess what...it rained while they were at prayer. Their Thanksgiving wasn't a time for feasting and games but was a very solemn occasion.
* What did they eat?
We know they had deer ( brought by the Indians) and fowl but most historians say they probably feasted on lobster, turkey, duck, cod, eel, and swans as well.
* On the long voyage to America, a sailor was very cruel to the Pilgrims. He made fun of them and mocked their piety. He suddenly fell sick and died. This caused the other sailors to have a new respect for their passengers.
* What happened to the Pilgrims?
They were outnumbered by the Puritans who came in larger numbers and were better prepared for settlement in the New world. Their colony in the Boston area prospered and in 1691, Plymouth became part of Massachusetts Bay which eventually evolved into the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

A Turkey's Thanksgiving Prayer

THANKSGIVING DAY!
WHEN SAYING GRACE THIS THANKSGIVING DAY,
THANK GOD FOR THE BLESSINGS THAT HAVE COME
YOUR WAY.

THANK HIM YOU LIVE IN THIS BOUNTIFUL LAND.
AND FOR ALL THOSE GIFTS THAT MAKE
LIFE GRAND.

THERE ARE BABIES AND DOGS AND KITTENS TOO
AND RAIN, AND TREES AND THINGS WE
CHEW.

THERE IS MUSIC AND ART AND WONDERFUL WORDS
AND GENTLE SUMMER ON THE WINGS
OF THE BIRDS.

IT’S ONLY A SUGGESTION I OFFER YOU
THIS THANKSGIVING WHY NOT TRY
SOMETHING NEW.

INSTEAD OF THE BLAND, BORING TURKEY
CONSIDER ONCE THE TASTINESS OF
WARM BEEF JERKY!

by Ted Wallace

Cutesy Picture Of The Day

Perfect Christian Book For The Man In Your Life!

I highly recommend giving Patrick Morley's great book The Man In The Mirror as a Christmas present for the Christian and non-Christian men in your life. Over 2.5 million copies have been sold and it gives practical, honest Christian solutions to all men seeking their way in this troubled world. It presents a modern look at today's American culture from the Christian worldview. Perfect for men's sunday school or study group. Forward by R.C. Sproul. Excellent read for all!

Friday, November 06, 2009

Maine Upholds True Definition Of Marriage

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This article was printed in the Bangor Daily News last week. Maine became the 31st state to repeal the gay attempt to redefine marriage. Thankfully, they lost. The quote below is from gay campaign manager Jesse Connolly. These are scary people!

"In a defiant speech to several hundred lingering supporters, No on 1 campaign manager Jesse Connolly pledged that his side 'will not quit until we know where every single one of these votes lives.'"

Believing Prayer
By Alexander Whyte

"But without faith it is impossible to please him..." (Heb. 11:6).

"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matt. 3:17).

First in His believing study and believing appropriation of the Messianic Scriptures, and then in His life of unceasing and believing prayer, our Lord stands at our head as the author and finisher of faith.

And not more in His believing reading of the word than in His believing prayer and intercession continually. 'Who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared.' Day and night, early and late, our Lord lived and moved and had His being in believing prayer.

He could never have entered on His great work, far less could He ever have finished it, but for His faith in His father as the Hearer of prayer. At every successive step in the process of our redemption, He took that step after a season of prayer, till He had fulfilled in His own experience what He preaches with such point to us concerning believing prayer.

Preaching clearly and undeniably from His own experience in prayer, He says to us in one great place--concerning prayer: 'What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. 'There is a window opened into our Lord's secret life of prayer in these wonderful words--words much too wonderful for the best believer among us, but true to the letter of Him and of His faith in His Father.

'I know,' He said to His Father, at the grave of Lazarus, 'I know that Thou hearest me always. But because of the people that stand by I said it, that they might believe that Thou hast heard Me.' Such close communion of faith, and such strong assurance of faith, was there between the Father and the Son in the Son's life of believing reading and believing praying.

Great Color Film Of Navy Men In Action In World War II.

This clear film looks like it was shot yesterday but it's over fifty years old. These apple-cheeked young men are old now and most are probably gone. We have lots of heroes in our nursing homes.

Will 2012 Be The End?

You'll hear lots of ideas about the world coming to an end in 2012 which is predicted by the Mayan calendar. This is the first of many dramatic productions to take up the theme. The Bible tells us not to try and predict the time of Christ's coming again. You can be sure of one thing--the world will not come to an end in 2012!