FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF THANKSGIVING 1621-2021 (FROM THE CHRISTIAN POST)

 

The old harbor of Plymouth, England, where the Pilgrims departed aboard the Mayflower in 1620. | Dennis Lennox

Last year’s 400th anniversary of the Mayflower sailing to the New World was devastated by the coronavirus pandemic.

Many of the originally planned festivities were canceled or greatly scaled back. Then there were the American tourists who never came to Plymouth, England, where the ship departed on Sept. 16, 1620, with 102 passengers.

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COLLEGIATE DAY OF PRAYER: THIS THURSDAY

This Thursday February 28 is the Annual Collegiate Day of Prayer across America. Many of us have signed up to pray for more than one college. As men and women of prayer, we encourage every praying Christian to take this challenge up to really pray hard for our young people in college.

  

If there ever was a time to pray for our kids in college and high school it is now. Everything ungodly and unwholesome is aligned against them. From indoctrination into the denying the existence of Creator God through Evolution, to deny the Commands of God for specific roles and functions of the human body in holiness, sexuality, daily and contented living, our next generation are being confused on purpose, while being taught that there is no such thing as absolute truth or one true God.

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Facts:

• 70% of college age kids who grew up in church, and/or Christian homes lose their faith in college (Campus Renewal 2017)
• 47% of young people/millennials and college kids, think that sharing their faith is wrong! (Barna February 2019)
• Only 33% of so-called “evangelical” young people (high school and college)  believe Jesus is the only way to Heaven! (Christian Post 2013)

What to pray for on the Collegiate Day of Prayer:

• The salvation of the souls of these young people in our college. The majority are oblivious to the facts of the brevity of life or heaven and a literal hell, which will be overpopulated if they ignore the facts.
• That campus ministries be allowed to flourish, even in some of the Midwest and friendly western states which still believed in the US Constitution of freedom of Assembly and Religious Liberty.
• That churches around our campuses will invest time and effort and outreach to college age young people as is done in North West Arkansas.  Cross Church, formerly First Baptist Church of Springdale, invested in a campus pastor – Brian Mills – who has devoted his  home and his life to the current and next generations of college kids, not just from America but from ALL nations, at the University of Arkansas. Pray for more men like Pastor Mills.
• Pray for mentors to step up and reach out to these young people - men and women, mentoring young men and young women respectively.
• Pray for a renewed love of the Savior by those who grew up in church but walked away, as well as those who are yet to encounter Christ.
• Pray for the Word of God - the Bible - to be distributed into the hands of every college student in America, and that they will read, comprehend and find comfort and salvation in God's Word

THE COLLEGIATE DAY OF PRAYER STARTED IN 1823, WHEN COLLEGES LIKE YALE, BROWN AND OTHER AMERICAN COLLEGES WHICH WERE CHRISTIAN AT THE TIME, SET ASIDE THE LAST THURSDAY IN FEBRUARY AS A DAY OF PRAYER FOR ALL COLLEGES IN THE NEW AMERICAN COUNTRY. IT HAS CONTINUED SINCE THEN.

SEE, FEEL, TRUST.....SATURDAY MEDITATION

ORIGINAL PUBLISHED IN YESTERDAY'S CHRISTIAN iPOST

One of my favorite movies of all time is “Seven Days in Utopia” (2011). It is not just a movie about golf but chockfull of life applications. One of them was the simple acronym – SFT! Here the grizzled old golf pro played by Robert Duvall was mentoring his young protégé played by Lucas Black and teaching him about Focus.

From the Word of God, we know Focus is the hallmark of a good disciple of Christ. Lack of focus is when we take our eyes off Him and look both inward at ourselves and/or circumstances. This is destructive as we can become full of ourselves; if we get caught up in the world around us and not the Word IN us.

SFT stands for See, Feel and Touch. What does this have to do with this period in the church calendar, which many observe as Lent? What does this have to do with a tradition where we deny ourselves in a meaningful way?

Jesus said we must deny.....................

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