Tag: Holiday
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Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
Happy Thanksgiving! Here is Abraham Lincoln’s short speech to institute Thanksgiving as a holiday in the United States. The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which…
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Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
Happy Thanksgiving! Here is Abraham Lincoln’s short speech to institute Thanksgiving as a holiday in the United States. The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which…
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The Comfort of Advent
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel.” (Matt. 1:23) For many people, Christmas is the most brutal time of year. Whether it’s the death of a loved one, a recent divorce, loneliness, or something else, Christmas can be a sad reminder that life is not how it should…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Psalm 104 A PSALM FOR GIVING THANKS Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! Know that the LORD, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.…
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Happy May Day!
Happy May Day! Do I say that with any particular celebratory delight? Not at all. But it’s still fun because spring is here and that means people are much happier than they were three months ago. According to the most reliable source online, Wikipedia, the earliest May Day celebrations “appeared in pre-Christian times, with the festival…
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Passion Week – Good Friday
This is a re-post of the Passion series from last year. 1 Peter 3:18: For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit. 2 Corinthians 5:21: For our sake he made him to be…
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Happy Boss’s Day
Make sure you wish the head honcho a Happy Boss’s Day today. I bet you didn’t know there was such a thing. And now I bet you wish you didn’t know.
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Happy Holiday, I’ll be Back in a Few Weeks
For the next three weeks I’ll be on holiday (as my South African friends would say). Later tonight, I’ll start a 36-hour journey back to Nebraska. Carly and I will get to spend some much-desired time together. I’m super pumped about this, if you couldn’t guess. We haven’t seen each other since January 6. It…
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He is Risen!
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll…
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I’m Thankful for Toilet Paper, Coffee Cake, and God’s Love for Himself
Here are some things I’m thankful for that don’t usually find a place in your average Sunday praise song: A quiet, dark morning with an open Bible A turned-off television Coffee cake Toilet paper Cars Enemies who hate me International vaccinations Notebook computers Sunshine reflecting off the frost Headphones Socks A God who loves himself…
JAMES PRUCH 