This is the week of Thanksgiving, not the only time to be thankful, but a specific holiday, a specific time designated to do so. Some families have a holiday tradition to go around the table, each giving thanks for one thing in their lives, and I want to share with you today, some of my giving of thanks. I am thankful to Jesus Christ, who died the death I could not die to be the sacrifice I could not be, to satisfy the punishment from our Holy God I could not satisfy, to welcome me in to a family I could earn or hope to be welcomed to in on my own. God did all the work. Jesus is the sacrifice. I have peace with God, and this is not of my doing. That requires humility and I am humbled by what Jesus has done. I am thankful in that, for life. I would not have life, if God had not given me life, if God had not sustained my life to this point, if God did not give me breath in my lungs at every moment, if my mother had not chosen to love me. I am thankful for God’s provision, for my family’s provision, for clothing, for shelter, for food, and for sunlight, and for rain. I am thankful for work – so much good comes from setting our minds and our hands to diligent work, and I am thankful for the opportunity of each employer who gave me employment. I am thankful for freedom to worship God and have a church to worship with other believers in community, so important. I am thankful for my family. I am thankful for my friends. For my country. For our founders who didn’t establish a country built on a political agenda, but established a country in the pursuit of humility and deference to God, to justice, to prudence, to patience, and to liberty. For the framers of the Constitution who debated endlessly for weeks to create a framework which empowered the individual States – not solely empowering a federal government, in that to prevent a monarchy, to prevent a dictatorship, to prevent tyranny. They sought to give a weighty amount of power and decision to the individual and to the citizenry, that the Executive would be accountable to the people. I am thankful to the elected officials here who champion this same liberty, who love America, who have the courage to say and do what is right though in a Progressive day it is not popular to do so. I am thankful to our first responders, police who risk their lives every day to keep the peace and directly keep the citizenry and residents safe as best they can, and to the Fire and Medical first responders who use their knowledge and equipment to keep us safe and heal our bodies. And I am thankful my hope is not in this administration, not in a specific political party, not in a specific human on earth today. My hope is in someone far greater, who will never be shaken, and holds all things and all people in the palm of His hand.
I’m not holden to the Republican party. While I’ve never voted for a Democratic candidate, the Republican party much more closely holds to biblical values. But rather than voting party line on any ballot, I look at each individual and examine how this individual’s values line up with Biblical values. IT IS MY FAITH IN JESUS which impacts my political beliefs. Not the other way around.
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FRIDAY NOV 19 – JACKSON ELLIOTT & ZACHARY STIEBER – THE EPOCH TIMES
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/19/statement-by-president-biden/
FRIDAY, NOV 19, 2021 – WHITEHOUSE WEBSITE
https://www.theblaze.com/news/rittenhouse-protest-riot-verdict
SAT NOV 20 2021 – PAUL SACCA - THE BLAZE
https://thepostmillennial.com/house-passes-bbb-mccarthy-marathon-speech
FRIDAY, NOV 19 – HANNAH NIGHTINGALE – THE POST MILLENNIAL
https://time.com/6121415/build-back-better-spending-bill-summary/
FRIDAY NOV 19, 2021 – NIK POPLI & ABBY VESOULIS – TIME.COM
https://weartv.com/news/local/gov-desantis-signs-legislation-prohibiting-covid-vaccine-mandates-in-florida
THURSDAY NOV 18, 2021 – STAFF – WEAR TV (ABC affiliate)