I agree Chuck. Happy Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas!! God bless you for stepping out and speaking out for the Lord and this Great Nation. I pray the Lord protect this Nation from those who want to do away with all that it was founded for and on.
It's so sad to see the Salvation Army standing out side of Wal Mart or whereever ringing their bells but not wishing people a Merry Christmas. Maybe I shouldn't but I just walk by. If they can't acknowledge it as Christmas then they don't want my donations. I can give to the poor other ways. I know it's Thanksgiving right now but I believe it all ties together. Remember when we use to shop to live church groups singing Christmas carols to glorify the Lord. The One that it is all about. It made grown ups and children feel so great!!! When I was little we didn't have a lot for Christmas but it was great the way all over America there were people right out in the City Squares singing and ringing in the season. It's that spirit of the season that makes it Christmas. There is power in His name and they don't want to hear it.
This might sound like I'm just talking about Chirstmas but these 2 holidays have always been intermingled. I think that's why they chose to celebrate Thanksgiving just a month before Christmas. Maybe not but that's just my thought.
Again thank you for speaking up for the Lord and this Nation. God bless!

Sir;... If all you godless hypocritical Christians would live more Godly lives, seek less of power, give more of sacrifice, care for the maimed and the injured of life, be less critical and more virtuous it might be possible that you could hear God in your own ears, forgiving all sins, forgetting all affronts and so rate forgveness yourselves; and then, the weak power and recongition you so desire from government would seem meaningless, -as it is to all the faithful.... What I thought Jesus said about the religious powers in his time who were like those in our own age, taking alike from rich and poor, getting fat on the poverty of the land was: Do as they say; Not as they do... No one should follow the Christians in the nonsense they do; and everyone should follow Jesus into caring and sacrifice... Jesus asked no official position, and rejected the kingdoms of the world... No one needs the authority of church or state to live a virtuous life... Just do it... Just do it and wash your face... And thank God for the power to help instead of needing help... God hears the cry of the poor... Pity his poor ears, and be his angel.... Do I ask so much??? Are your muscles only for show, and are they your reward, or are they some good for carrying a cross??? Next year I'm putting some wheels under mine...Thanks...Sweeney

Re: Lola Mathuews;... I am just like you ma'am.... I look for excuses not to give... This one didn't wish me a Merry Christmas....That one had a gun....The other one didn't have teeth, and the one with him smelled bad... I keep expecting the needy to look like Jesus, and they never do... And no matter how broke you go handing pennies to the poor there is always some person standing there begging, looking more desparate than the last one... I don't know why the government does not do more, except that I deny them taxes because I disagree with their stands, even when they are sitting... My church would do more, except that they spend all the extra on advertizing... Jesus advertized... He told people not to tell... Wasn't that like telling them to tell??? But it seems like if we would all go broke being Chrisitians that we would not have to advertize, that even if we were as destitute as those we fed and clothed that people would judge us by our deeds and want to be like us... Naw... Ef the poor... If they don't measure up to my standards from now on they get nothing from me but a blind eye and a go to ell....Thanks...Sweeney

Thanks for all your articles, Chuck, including this one. Seeing that we are getting close to Christmas, you might like to check Amazon for a 1976 novel by British author Frederick Forsyth entitled The Shepherd. It's about a 20-year-old RAF jet pilot who gets into difficulties over the North Sea on Christmas Eve, 1957, when his aircraft suffers a major instrument failure. With fog blotting out the landscape and low on fuel, the young officer desperately asks God for help but thinks this is futile, in that he had forgotten God for so long, surely God had forgotten him. But had He? It's a great Christmas story. You can read about it on Wikipedia and elsewhere on the web but I suggest don't do that until you've read the story - it's quite short.