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Fast and pray for America.
We need to pray for revival, a Third Great Awakening — that God would pour out His Holy Spirit and work repentance and revival in our land and give us the knowledge and fear of the Lord.
Our Founding Fathers called numerous fasts. Christians should fast and confess personal and national sins in the spirit of 2 Chronicles 7:14: If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land (ESV).
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places (Ephesians 6:12).
We can’t lose. They can’t win.
Master of Arts in Biblical Studies – Azusa Pacific University
Master of Arts in Journalism – Cal State Fullerton
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This Date in History – Dec. 10
1520: Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg’s Elster Gate.
(Latin for ‘Arise, O Lord’) is a papal bull promulgated on 15 June 1520 by Pope Leo X. It was written in response to the teachings of Martin Luther which opposed the views of the Church. It censured forty-one propositions extracted from Luther’s Ninety-five Theses and subsequent writings, and threatened him with excommunication unless he recanted within a sixty-day period commencing upon the publication of the bull in Saxony and its neighboring regions. Luther refused to recant and responded instead by composing polemical tracts lashing out at the papacy and by publicly burning a copy of the bull on 10 December 1520. As a result, Luther was excommunicated in 1521.
1778: John Jay is elected President of the Continental Congress
“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” John Jay. President George Washington appointed Jay the first Chief Justice of the United States in 1789. In 1794, Jay was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain and negotiated Jay’s Treaty, which ended certain disagreements between Britain and the US that had lingered after the war. Jay then served as Governor of New York from 1795-1801, his last public office.”
1817: Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
1861: American Civil War: the Confederate States of America accept a rival state government’s pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.
1864: American Civil War: Sherman’s March to the Sea – Major General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.
1868: The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1884: Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
1898: Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
1906: U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
1911: The first transcontinental flight across the United States is completed. Calbraith Perry Rodgers began the flight on 17 September 1911, taking off from Sheepshead Bay NY.
1927: The phrase “Grand Ole Opry” is used for the first time on-air.
1935: The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
1936: Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
1941: World War II: Battle of the Philippines – Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.
1941: World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.
1949: Chinese Civil War: The People’s Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
1993: The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
My wife and I are the proud parents of an autistic 32-year-old son. Despite the love and support of family and friends, autism leaves us exhausted and devastated. We do not know why our family suffers with autism other than that we live in a fallen world. Some would ask why God permits such things, but we pity those who suffer such things and do not know the Lord. We look forward to that day when Christ “will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away” (Revelation 21:4). We pray that God will be glorified in healing our son in this life, but we know that he will not be autistic in heaven.
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Countries and territories Thomas C. Hanson Sr. has visited.
Countries and territories he has spoken in
Canberra, Sydney and Ulladulla, Australia; Nassau, Bahamas; Brno, Czechoslovakia; Denmark; West Germany; India; Tokyo, Japan; Mexico; Hoogeveen, Netherlands; Auckland, New Zealand; George and Durban, South Africa; Segovia, Spain; Sri Lanka; United States and Caracas, Venezuela.
United States
California: Bakersfield, Mojave, Pasadena, Glendale, Reseda, Garden Grove, Glendora, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Victorville, Beaumont, Santa Ana, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara; Texas: Big Sandy; Indiana: Evansville; Connecticut: Hartford.
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