We’re gonna start this week’s Deja Vu with something to look forward to. This morning we read Matthew 21, Matthew’s account of the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem. This next week we will read and discuss the events of the Passion week, ending with Jesus’s death, burial and resurrection. Two Gospels share the story of Jesus’s birth, all four tell about his death, burial and resurrection. After we finish Matthew we will jump back into the Old Testament and read Leviticus.
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From General Washington’s struggle at Valley Forge to the present, this Nation has fervently sought and received divine guidance as it pursued the course of history. This occasion provides our Nation with an opportunity to further recognize the source of our blessings, and to seek His help for the challenges we face today and in the future. -Ronald Reagan
The Second Continental Congress (as in the guys that signed the Declaration of Independence) first asked colonists to pray in 1775, recommending “a day of public humiliation, prayer and fasting.” Only in 1952 did President Harry Truman sign a bill stating that each successive president must designate a national day of prayer each year on a date of his choosing. A National Prayer Committee was formed in 1982 to establish a fixed day annually. Since 1988 the National Day of Prayer has been the first Thursday of May. George W. Bush is the only president in recent history to host an annual event in the nation’s capital in observance of the Day of Prayer (Reagan and H.W. Bush each had one). Continue reading
Lincoln, King and the Kingdom: what’s the relationship? I’ve always wondered who in the government decided to put Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) together. Although my students will tell you that sometimes I get a little preachy when I teach history, I’ve always tried to not lecture history from the pulpit. This time, I’m going to ask that you indulge me just a little bit.
It’s always around this time of year that my American History class studies the Civil War. It just so happens that right in the middle of that, my wife and I visited D.C. over the Christmas break. I stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and looked across the reflection pool toward the Washington Monument. The words of the Gettysburg Address are carved into Lincoln’s memorial in 12″ letters. It’s hard not to come back and say something about it. Continue reading
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