What’s Your Favorite Part of Thanksgiving?

Thanksgiving

What’s your favorite part of Thanksgiving?

For me, it’s probably enjoying food with family. We laugh; we swap stories and remember years long past; and we reflect on the things for which we are grateful.

I have said it repeatedly the past few years, but any more it feels like Thanksgiving is in danger of becoming “Black Friday Eve.” Between stores opening on Thanksgiving Day and over-the-top marketing programs to entice shoppers the weekend after, Thanksgiving is beginning to to lose some of the prominence it once had in America.

I hope you and your family have a wonderful time today celebrating together and enjoying the many blessings God has given us. One thing I am deeply grateful for is your friendship and support. As you probably know, November and December are important months for Family Council, as most of our gifts for the year come in during this time; if you have not already done so, I hope you will give a generous, tax-deductible donation to help us continue standing up for families like yours all over Arkansas. Click here to donate.

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

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God’s Providence in Plymouth

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is less than a week away. As the holiday approaches, the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview has re-released a classic commentary from the late Chuck Colson about the real hero of the first Thanksgiving: God.

Colson’s commentary is about Squanto, the Wampanoag Indian who helped the Pilgrims survive in the early days at Plymouth. Colson writes,

According to the diary of Pilgrim Governor William Bradford, Squanto ‘became a special instrument sent of God for [our] good . . . He showed [us] how to plant [our] corn, where to take fish and to procure other commodities . . . and was also [our] pilot to bring [us] to unknown places for [our] profit, and never left [us] till he died.'”

You can listen to Chuck Colson’s full commentary below.

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Words from Our Founders: Congressional Prayer Proclamation, 1780

Thanksgiving, Words From Our Founders,

Today we continue our Words From Our Founders series examining our Founding Fathers’ own words on religion, religious liberty, and morality.

In honor of Thanksgiving, below is a proclamation issued by the Continental Congress on October 18, 1780. The proclamation establishes December 7, 1780, as a day of “public thanksgiving and prayer.” The proclamation also makes a reference to Benedict Arnold’s treason, which was exposed before it could be fully executed.

Whereas it hath pleased Almighty God, the Father of all mercies, amidst the vicissitudes and calamities of war, to bestow blessings on the people of these states, which call for their devout and thankful acknowledgments, more especially in the late remarkable interposition of his watchful providence, in rescuing the person of our Commander in Chief and the army from imminent dangers, at the moment when treason was ripened for execution; in prospering the labours of the husbandmen, and causing the earth to yield its increase in plentiful harvests; and, above all, in continuing to us the enjoyment of the gospel of peace;

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