"Today, many of our public school children are taught that we celebrate Thanksgiving because the Pilgrims were thanking their Indian neighbors for helping them; but the evidence of history shows that on that first Thanksgiving Day the thanks of both Pilgrims and Indians went to God for His great goodness toward them all.  But the story does not end there.

Even though the Pilgrims hosted the first Thanksgiving dinner in America, the holiday itself actually has its origins almost 170 years later, after the Revolutionary War had been won and our American Constitution had been adopted.  In 1789, Congress approved the Bill of Rights, the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution.  Congress then “recommended a day of public thanksgiving and prayer” to thank God for blessing America.  President Washington declared November 26, 1789, as the first national day of prayer and thanksgiving to the Lord. 

Another 75 years later, after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln established the last Thursday in November as a day to acknowledge “the gracious gifts of the Most High God” bestowed upon America.  Every president did the same until 1941 when Congress officially made Thanksgiving a national holiday." 

(from jesus-is-savior.com)

 It takes a greater leap of faith to believe in evolution than it does to believe in creation. 
1. Where did that first piece of life come from? 
2. What was blasted in the big blast? 
3. Where are the intermediate fossils (the ones where a dog changed to a horse, or an ape changed to a man)?
4. Can you imagine human DNA or the human eye evolving from a single-celled organism?    
5. What keeps the earth, sun, and moon moving, spinning, and revolving exactly the same as they always have? 

I will praise you, Lord, with all my heart;
    before the “gods” I will sing your praise.
² I will bow down toward your holy temple
    and will praise your name
    for your unfailing love and your faithfulness,
for you have so exalted your solemn decree
    that it surpasses your fame.
³ When I called, you answered me;
    you greatly emboldened me. 

(Psalm 138:1-3 -- NIV)

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Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!  How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
³⁴ “Who has known the mind of the Lord?
    Or who has been his counselor?”
³⁵ “Who has ever given to God,
    that God should repay them?”
³⁶ For from him and through him and for him are all things.
    To him be the glory forever! Amen.

(Romans 11:33-36 -- NIV)

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Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

(1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 -- NIV)