Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. So Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who reads this. President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving in 1863, but it did not became a national holiday until 1870 when President Ulysses S. Grant signed a law so designating it. Congress fixed the date for Thanksgiving as Read more…
In about 1535, as Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation was gaining traction in Europe, John Calvin published The Institutes of the Christian Religion, in which he argued that God has predestined every person on earth to either eternal salvation or eternal damnation, and that no one can change their eternal fate. Read more…
We had an election on Tuesday. Some are enjoying the thrill of victory, while others are licking their wounds. We recently crowned a new World Series champion. Houston Astros fans celebrated; Philadelphia Phillies fans lamented. I enjoy watching football on television. I cheer when my team wins and I hurt Read more…
In Genesis chapter 12, God tells Abram—whose name would soon change to Abraham[1]—to leave his country and his relatives, and go to “the land which I will show you.”[2] Several promises follow these instructions. God ends those promises by saying “in you all the families of the earth will be Read more…