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  What is Thanksgiving about?   We of course can make it about shopping, parades, family, food, harvest, football or travel.   The American holiday can have a lot of different meanings for a lot of folks.   The first Thanksgiving of the Pilgrims was not about those things so much as the providence of God.   These survivors of a harsh environment were recognizing something that is not really an element of our modern way of looking at life.   The idea that God controls and governs all of life is the idea of providence.   It is the idea that our story is not the product of chance or created by ourselves.   God is in control of all that is in our lives and how it comes about.   For Abraham it meant not having a heir for years but then a son is born.   This is the earthly mess that created was used to bring about a covenant from heaven.   For Jacob it meant competition and struggles with his relatives; his brother and uncle. ...

War is terrible and glorious. War shows the depravity of mankind. War shows the heroic valor of particular individuals. War should never happen, but we simulate it through our sports games every day. We want the heroism without the horrors. We want the heroism without the necessity of sacrificing life. War can never solve the problems of the heart. We hardly every trace the root of a war in the human heart, but that is where it begins. The cause of war is the human heart. Sports are a story of the human heart also. There is athletic achievement which is the fruit of training of body and mind. There is the binding of human hearts to one another during training and competition. There is the weighing of one's character and abilities in the courts of the game. The winners and losers know more about themselves and their opponents in the end. Even if one possesses the ecstasy of a win , the opponents made the winner try harder and do more than ever imagined. The athlete does not compet...

Mars Hill Audio Journal 118 has an interview with Gilbert Meilaender mentioned a Ray Kurzweil who was trying to beat death.  In doing so he had hired a  pill wrangler to organize his extensive vitamin pills that he takes everyday.  A vitamin wrangler, what a cool line to put on one's resume.  Perhaps such jobs, probably not a career, will be common in the future as the work environment changes in the next few years.  Sparks & Honey have a new set of slides up on Slide Share on future jobs which may exist in the next ten years.  There is possibilities that they may have accurately noticed a trend that will continue, which is what this purports to do.  20 Jobs of the Future from sparks & honey While Sparks & Honey list interesting jobs such as Digital Death Manager and Hackschooling Counselor, I'm wondering if there are some other jobs of the future.  Perhaps there will things such as this... Skills and Knowledge Reus...

A Term Paper Presented to Dr. Todd Beall of Capital Bible Seminary _____________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Divinity ____________ by Terry Pruitt May 7, 2013                                                                 4 The Lord G OD gave to me a tongue of disciples,             to know how to sustain the weary with a word,   He rouses morning by morning,               He rouses my ear to listen as the learned ones.   5 The Lord G OD opened my ear  ...