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28 Feb
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Washington’s Inaugural Address of 1789 A Transcription

Fellow Citizens of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the ...

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28 Feb
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Repentance: A Word Study

Repentance: A Word Study The word “repentance” has a slightly tarnished reputation with many of those who call themselves believers. There are many reasons for this. I will briefly address two of them, and then propose an alternative that will ...

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28 Feb
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President Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamations

A Day of National Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer in The United States Of America on April 30, 1863. WHEREAS, the senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and Just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs ...

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28 Feb
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A Proclamation by John Adams

As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him, but ...

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28 Feb
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Proclamation—Day of Humiliation and Prayer 1812 by James Madison

Resolution requesting the President of the United States to recommend a day of public humiliation and prayer. It being a duty peculiarly incumbent in a time of public calamity and war, humbly and devoutly to acknowledge our dependence on Almighty ...

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27 Feb
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PURIM AND AN ESTHER FAST

  By James Wilson               Three events converge the first week of March.  March 3 finds Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing both houses of the United States Congress, making his case against Israel’s threatened annihilation.  March 5 the ...

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23 Feb
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ONE VOICE IN ISRAEL — A BAD BUSINESS FOR DECENCY

By James Wilson               President Obama’s government is pressuring Congress to cancel Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 invitation to speak.  They cite Speaker Boehner’s bad manners for not running the invitation by the President.  Protocol is protocol; if good manners ...

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19 Feb
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A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY

  By James Wilson               One of my favorite memories is of a friend of mine who has a doctorate and believes in evolution.  It is one of his missions in life to convince me I am foolish to ...

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13 Feb
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TIME FOR MEN TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE: A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD MOVIE PROPHESIES THE WAY

By James Wilson               I found myself watching an old film, Six Days Seven Nights, on a recent morning when I did something I don’t do on mornings – watch television.    I have seen this movie before and ...

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07 Feb
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SONS OF LIBERTY — ARE YOU SERIOUS?

By James Wilson               The History Channel, the Samuel Adams Brewing Company, and the writers and producers of the mini-series, Sons of Liberty, ought to be deeply ashamed for the tortured view of American History to which viewers were ...

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