The History of Thanksgiving in the United States

“We thank the turkey for this great meal!” (Wait… WHAT?!) Sounds funny right? But I’ve been watching these reality shows on Discovery where people live on farms and get back to nature and one of them, “Alaska, The Last Frontier” had a Thanksgiving meal where they thanked everyone and everything- even the turkey, but they never thanked…

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Times Like These

Today in the US gay marriage rights seem to be winning the socia, media, and political battle while the abortion mills keep slaughtering thousands of unborn children a day. At the same time, here in Chicago there were a dozen people shot last night (on Good Friday) and one was killed in five different incidents…

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End Times Debate, Teachings, and Charts!

I recently came across a great end times debate moderated by John Piper with some of the best scholars of our time.  I loved it so much I made this complete end times blog to, (a) help get the different end time views out, (b) further the debate and discussion about the end times, and…

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Real Hope For America: VOTE "JESUS" in 2012

America’s Greatest Need This morning I read the heartbreaking account of a Texas teen, Bridgett Frisbie, 17, murdered “execution style” by Alexander Olivieri, 19.* This murder was part of an apparent cover-up for a previous drive-by shooting that was committed by Olivieri at the behest of Frisbie. (This all happened in April of this year.)…

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What The Stocks Falling Can Teach Us

“Not again!”  I could not believe what I saw for the second day in a row, the plummeting of our cherished economy.  I am not an economist or a financial guy, but I thought I would weigh in on the state of the US economy in recent days and what it can teach us as…

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