John Clayton
John Clayton
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I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.
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Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.
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There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for.
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Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.
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It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.
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The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
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Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
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Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.
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Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.
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There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.
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Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays.
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Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.
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The weather has held up. I haven't had a heavy coat on yet. I think it's gone much better than anybody thought.