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Go to http://www.plimoth.org/ With God's Richest Blessings,Eric Jonas Swensson                            †  Faith brings strength for today,and bright hope for tomorrow.http://card.ly/ejswensson Posted via email from ejswensson's posterous

Only surviving firsthand account of First Thanksgiving:
It was shared by about 50 colonists and 90 Wampanoag Indians:   "Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time, among other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed upon our g

Theology On Fire
Theology On FirePuritans were not lukewarm about anything, let alone what they believed about God.Dr. J. I. Packer is Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, and author of numerous books, including A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life (Crossway, 1990). | posted 1/01/1994 12:00AM 1 of 3 ADVERTISEMENT An English Puritan preacher once exhorted his people about their neglect of the Bible. One hearer reported how the preacher “personates God to the people, telling them, ‘Well, I have trusted you so long with my Bible; you have slighted it, it lies … covered with d

Robert Lowry, great hymnwriter ("Nothing but the Blood" is a favorite) preferred to be kn
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King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was a great man, a true hero, he gave his life for the evangelical
Catholics and Protestants fought he Battle of Lutzen--one of the most crucial in the Thirty Years War--on this day, November 16, 1632. The horror of the Thirty Years War in the seventeenth century was enough to make anyone shudder. Out of a German population of sixteen million people, only four million survived. Before the war, Augsburg had 80,000 people; only 18,000 were left in the city at the war's end. The armies destroyed 30,000 villages. They hunted down peaceful peasants for sport. Farms lay in such waste that forests sprang up to completely cover them. Crime ran rampant. The war started in Bohemia. Emperor Ferdinand II, a staunch Roman Catholic, st