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Thought for November 20, 2024

 303: Because prisons are full, Diocletian offers amnesty to Chrisians who will sacrifice to Roman gods 1789: New Jersey is first state to ratify Bill of Rights 1850: Fanny Crosby accepts Christ at a Methodist revival service after a dream in which a friend makes her promise to meet him in heaven. Leaping at the altar, she shouts "Hallelujah" 1866: Howard University founded 1902: Tour de France created 1914: Photographs first required for passports 1917: First successful use of a tank in combat 1945: Nuremberg Trials begin 1962: Russia agrees to remove rockets from Cuba 1984: SETI formed [Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence] Seems like we need STI--Search for Terrestrial Intelligence Born: William Painter [invented crown cork bottle cap and opener], Kennesaw Mountain Landis [1st MLB commissioner], Edwin Hubble, Alistair Cooke, Robert Kennedy, Estelle Parsons, Kenneth Schermerhorn, Richard Dawson, Dick Smothers, Joe Biden, Duane Allman, Judy Woodruff, John Bolton, Dierks
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Thought for November 19, 2024

  1493: Columbus discovers Puerto Rico 1861: Julia Ward Lowe commits the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper 1863: Gettysburg Address 1872: First patent for an adding machine 1959: "Rocky & His Friends" premiers 1965: Kellogg Pop Tarts created 1975: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" premiers Born: George Rogers Clark, James Garfield, Billy Sunday, Hiram Bingham [re-discovered Machu Picchu], Tommy Dorsey, Peter Drucker, Indira Gandhi, Roy Campanella, Larry King, Jack Welch, Dick Cavett, Ted Turner, Dan Haggerty, Calvin Klein, Allison Janney, Meg Ryan, Jodie Foster, Kerri Strug Died: Man in the Iron Mask, Franz Schubert, Emma Lazarus ["Give us your tired, poor . ."], Samuel Stone ["The Chruch's One Foundation"], Ted Fujita [tornadoes], Mike Nichols, Charles Manson, Della Reese, Mel Tillis Thought: Some things seem hopeless. We get defeated, disgusted, discouraged and lose hope. Our team loses and loses. It seems hopeless. W
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Thought for November 18, 2024

  1302: Pope Boniface VIII declares that outside the Holy Catholic Church there is neither salvation nor remission of sin 1307: William Tell allegedly shoots an apple off his son's head 1497: Vasco da Gama reaches the Cape of Good Hope 1626: St. Peter's Basilica consecrated [replaced the original consecrated in 326] 1865: Mark Twain publishes the "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" 1872: Susan B Anthony arrested for voting illegally 1883: Railroads create standard time zones in the US 1902: Morris Michtom names teddy bear after Theodore Roosevelt 1916: Battle of the Somme ends after 1 million killed or wounded 1928: "Steamboat Willie" released [1st Mickey Mouse cartoon with sound] 1956: Khrushchev says "we will bury you" 1959: "Ben Hur" premiers 1963: Touch Tone phone introduced 1978: 918 members of the Peoples Temple die with Jim Jones in Guyana 1990: First Solheim Cup--US ladies win 1999: Bonfire at Texas A&M collapses kil
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Thought for November 16, 2024

 1824: Fifth Avenue in Ney York opens for business 1871: National Rifle Association chartered 1914: Federal Reserve System opens 1925: American Association for the Advancement of Atheism forms 1965: Disney launches Epcot Center 1973: Nixon authorizes the Alaskan Pipeline 2002: First case of SARS recorded in China 2019:  500th Anniversary of the founding of Havana Born: Tiberius [Caesar during Christ's ministry], WC Handy, Burgess Meredith, Corey Pavin, Zina Garrison, Diana Krall [jazz piano], Maggie Gyllenhaal Died: Dr. Bob Smith [co-founded of Alcohol Anonymous], Clark Gable, Sam Rayburn, Milton Friedman, Melvin Laird,  Thought: Reading Romans 14:13 today. Determine this--not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother's way. This is a great way to test if my life is giving evidence of God's will. Am I putting a stumbling block in front of a brother or sister. Paul connects this to whether we truly love our brothers. If I truly love, I am willing to sacrifice some
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Thought for November 15, 2024

 1492: Columbus notes first recorded reference to tobacco 1533: Pizarro captures the Incan capital, Cusco 1777: Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation 1791: Georgetown University opens as first Catholic university in US 1864: Sherman leaves Atlanta on the March to the Sea 1904: King Gillette patents the Gillette Razor Blade 1932: "A Night at the Opera" with the Marx Brothers is released 1939: FDR lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial 1956: Elvis has his acting debut in "Love Me Tender" 1959: Clutter Family murdered in Kansas--Truman Capote writes "In Cold Blood" 1963: Valium created 1980: "Big Thunder Mountain Railroad" opens at Disney World Born: William Pitt the Elder, Georgia O'Keeffe, Erwin Rommel, Lorena Ochoa, Curtis LeMay, Judge Joseph Wapner, Ed Asner, Petula Clark,  Died: Johannes Kepler, Lionel Barrymore, Margaret Mead, Oswald Chambers, Stokely Carmichael, Adrian Rogers, Roy Clark,  Thought: Looking at Romans 1
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Thought for November 14, 2024

 1666: Samuel Pepys reports on the first blood transfusion--between dogs 1784: Samuel Seabury named a bishop in the Anglican Church in Scotland; a year later he became the first bishop in America; and 5 years later organized the Anglicans in America as the Episcopal Church 1792: George Vancouver is first Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay 1851: Herman Melville publishes "Moby Dick" 1883: "Treasure Island" first published in book form 1889: Nellie Bly begins her attempt to travel around the world in 80 days--makes it in 72 days, 6 hours 1908: Albert Einstein presents the quantum theory of light 1910: First airplane flight from the deck of a ship 1935: Jews lose citizenship in Germany 1968: Yale announces it will accept coeds Born: Robert Fulton, Claude Monet, Leo Baekeland [Bakelite plastics], Jawaharlal Nehru, Mamie Eisenhower, Joe McCarthy, Prince Charles [now King Charles], Condoleezza Rice, Janice Cox Thrailkill Died: Charles Carroll [last surviving signer of
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Thought for November 13, 2024

619: Second Council of Seville rules that hymns from texts not taken directly from Scripture are allowable 1644: Massachusetts outlaws Baptists as "troublers of churches"  1789: Ben Franklin writes, "Nothing is certain but death and taxes" 1902: Joseph Conrad publishes "Heart of Darkness", previously released in serialized form 1952: First sale of false fingernails 1982: Vietnam War Memorial Wall opens, listing over 58,000 killed or missing Born: St. Augustine of Hippo,  Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Brandeis Died: Thomas Chippendale, Edward Mote [wrote "My Hope is Built on Nothing Less"], Francis Thompson [wrote "Hound of Heaven"], Karen Silkwood Edward Mote also wrote another song we sing. Working as a carpenter, he wrote four verses and put them in his pocket. A week later, he visited the dying wife of his pastor and sang the four verses he had written. The pastor asked for a copy of the verses, so we now sing, "On Christ the so
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