Thought for Today

 History: 1888: Mary Ann Nichols body found--1st victim of Jack the Ripper 1897: Edison patents kinetoscope camera--motion pictures 1919: Ukrainian army recaptures Kiev--sounds familiar 1925: Margaret Mead arrives i Samoa 1946: Foghorn Leghorn debuts in "Walky Talky Hawky" 1955: First sun powered car demonstrated 1965: HUD established 1972: Olga Korbut wins Olympic Gold in beam and floor exercise 1997: Princess Diana dies in car crash 2019: Gunman kills 7 and injures 22 in Odessa TX 2020: US Covid cases pass 6 million Born: Caligula, Maria Montessori, Fredric March, Arthur Godfrey, Pete Newell [Basketball HOF], Alan Jay Lerner [My Fair Lady], Buddy Hackett, James Coburn, Jean Beliveau [hockey HOF], Frank Robinson, Itzhak Perlman [violin], Richard Gere, Marcia Clark [OJ Simpson], Edwin Moses [hurdles], Padraig Harrington, Chris Tucker, Charl Swartzel, Larry Fitzgerald,  Died: John Bunyan [Pilgrim's Progress], Rocky Marciano, Sally Rand [dancer], Lionel Hampton, Jerry Reed,...

 History: 1146: Crossbow outlawed--intended to end war for all time 1835: Melbourne Australia founded 1862: Battle of Altamont TN 1890: First law requiring inspection of meat products 1927: Helen Wills Moody wins her 4th of 7 US Open titles 1939: Yamamoto named Commander in Chief of Japanese fleet 1954: Hurricane Carol kills 68 1956: Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens 1961: James Parsons named first black US District Court Judge 1963: Kremlin-Pentagon hot line established 1967: Thurgood Marshall confirmed as first black Supreme Court Justice 1993: Late Show with David Letterman premiers 2020: Covid death toll at 843,000 Born: Mary Shelley, Shirley Booth, Roy Wilkins, Joan Blondell, Fred MacMurray, Ted Williams, Kitty Wells, Angelo Dundee [Ali], Warren Buffett, Bruce McLaren [racer], Jean-Claude Killy, Tug McGraw, Peggy Lipton [Mod Squad], Robert Parrish, Cameron Diaz, Andy Roddick Died: JJ Thomson [discovered the electron], Vera-Ellen [White Christmas], Charles Bronson, Glenn Ford, ...

 History: 1786: Shay's Rebellion in Massachusetts--against increased taxes 1831: Faraday demonstrates first electric trnasformer 1862: Second Battle of Bull Run/Manassas 1883: First Carnegie Library opens in Dunfermline Scotland--eventually 2,509 Carnegie Libraries 1896: Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador 1898: Goodyear Tire founded 1909: Glenn Curtiss wins first air race--Rheims France 1928: W.A. Criswell ordained 1945: MacArthur named Supreme Allied Commander in Japan 1954: San Francisco International Airport opens--many flights from there 1967: Final episode of "The Fugitive" on TV 1997: Netflix founded 2005: Katrina makes second and third landfalls 2017: Hurricane Harvey drops nearly 52 inches of rain in Cedar Bayou Born: John Locke, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. [Old Ironsides], Ingrid Bergman, Isabel Sanford [Jeffersons], Charlie "Bird" Parker, Richard Attenborough, John McCain, Elliott Gould, James Brady [Brady Law], Robin Leach,...

 History: 1883: Krakatoa erupts killing 36,000. Earth's temperature drops for a year. 1953: Roman Holiday released 1995: Guinness Book of World Records first published 1964: Mary Poppins premiers 2004: Argentina upsets USA in Olympic basketball 2008: Barack Obama nominated for President 2020: Hurricane Laura hits Louisiana Born: Charles Rolls [Rolls Royce], Ed Gein [serial killer], Lyndon Johnson, Martha Raye, Tuesday Weld, Barbara Bach, Pee-wee Herman, Bernhard Langer, Breanna Stewart,  Died: John Russell Pope [architect Jefferson Memorial], WEB Du Bois, Gracie Allen, Greg Morris [Mission Impossible], Lute Olson,  Tomorrow is the anniversary of the death of St. Augustine of Hippo. Thought: Yesterday, I looked at the rhetorical question, "Is anything too difficult for the Lord?" Today, I am thinking about another question posed in chapter 18 of Genesis--Will You [God] sweep away the righteous with the wicked.  .  .  . Shall not the Judge of all the earth de...

 History: 1682: Edmond Halley first observes Halley's Comet 1873: First free kindergarten in US begins in Missouri 1874: 16 blacks taken from jail in Trenton TN and lynched 1968: Beatles release "Hey Jude" single 2016: Colin Kaepernick kneels in protest during National Anthem Born: Antoine Lavoisier [father of modern chemistry],  Mary Ann Nichols [1st victim of Jack the Ripper], Albert Sabin [oral polio vaccine], Mother Teresa, Katherine Johnson [Hidden Numbers], Geraldine Ferraro, Will Shortz [NY Times Crossword], Branford Marsalis, Melissa McCarthy, Macaulay Culkin,  Died: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek [first to observe bacteria], Lon Chaney, Andrew Mellon, Ransom Olds, Charles Lindbergh, Ted Knight, Neil Simon,  Thought: Reading from Genesis 18 today. Focused on just a verse: 18:14--Is anything too difficult for the Lord? Have you ever thought about that? Is there something that God has insufficient power to handle? Is there something too complicated for God to figure o...

 History: 325: First Council of Nicaea 1814: British destroy Library of Congress 1875: Matthew Webb makes 1st observed, unassisted swim across the English Channel 1910: Yellow Cab founded 1916: National Park Service formed 1958: First pre-cooked instant noodles sold [Ramen] 1986: Paul Simon's "Graceland" album released 2017: Hurricane Harvey hits Texas Born: Ivan the Terrible, Allan Pinkerton [detective], Michael Rennie, Van Johnson, Mel Ferrer, Leonard Bernstein, George Wallace, Monty Hall, Althea Gibson, Sean Connery, Tom Skerritt, Gene Simmons [KISS],  Elvis Costello, Tim Burton, Billy Ray Cyrus, Marvin Harrison,  Died: Henry Morgan [pirate], David Hume [Philosopher], James Watt [steam engine], Michael Faraday [1st electric motor], Friedrich Nietzsche [philosopher], Henri Becquerel [discovered radioactivity], Alfred Kinsey [Kinsey Report], Truman Capote, Art Rooney [Steelers], Ted Kennedy, Neil Armstrong, John McCain,  Thought: Continuing with my reading of the st...

 History: 1349: 6,000 Jews blamed for the Plague are killed in Mainz 1456: Printing of the Gutenberg Bible completed 1662: Act of Uniformity requires use of Book of Common Prayer 1847: Charlotte Bronte completes "Jane Eyre" 1891: Edison patents motion picture camera 1932: Amelia Earhart completes first transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman 1949: NATO treaty goes into effect 1989: Pete Rose suspended from baseball for life for gambling 1992: Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida 1995: Windows 95 debuts 2006: Pluto demoted to "Dwarf Planet" 2006: Jerry Rice retires from the 49er's Born: William Wilberforce [abolitionist], Fred Rose [Acuff-Rose Publishing], Durward Kirby, Yasser Arafat, Kenny Baker [R2D2], Mason Williams [Classical Gas], Joe Manchin [Senator], Bob Corker, Mike Shanahan, Mike Huckabee, Cal Ripken Jr., Marlee Matlin, Reggie Miller, Dave Chappelle,  Died: Henry Kaiser, Charles Revson [Revlon], E.G. Marshall, Richard Attenborough, Robin Leach,  Wil...

History: 1784: Settlers in East Tennessee declare an independent state--Franklin. Continental Congress rejects it the following year 1796: African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated 1850: First National Women's Rights Convention 1946: The Big Sleep premiers 1948: World Council of Churches founded 1952: Kitty Wells is first woman to reach #1 on Billboard Country charts 1996: Osama bin Laden declares war on Americans 2005: Katrina forms over the Bahamas 2007 Hashtag invented and first used in a Tweet Born: Arnold Toynbee [historian], Edgar Lee Masters [Spoon River Anthology], Gene Kelly, Vera Miles, Barbara Eden, Daniel Ruettiger [Rudy at Notre Dame], River Phoenix, Kobe Bryant,  Died: William Wallace, Rudolph Valentino, Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti [executed], Eugene Schueller [founded L'Oreal], Oscar Hammerstein, Shamu [the original],  Hoyt Wilhelm, Bobby Bonds,  Russell Carter [Standing on the Promises] Thought: Reading Genesis 6 today as I look at some ve...

History: 565: First recorded observation of the Loch Ness monster 1433: Paul Craw is burned before St Andrews--1st martyr in Scotland 1485: Battle of Bosworth Field--Tudor's defeat Richard III 1775: George III declares colonies in open rebellion 1849: First air raid--Austria launches balloons against Venice 1851: Gold discovered in Australia 1864: First Geneva Convention 1901: Cadillac Motors founded 1902: Teddy Roosevelt is first President to ride in a car while serving. 1906: Victrola manufactured 1952: Devil's Island penal colony closed 1959: American Football League formed 1965: Juan Marachal hits Johnny Roseboro in the head with a bat--brawl follows 2003: Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore suspended for refusing to remove Ten Commandments from lobby of Supreme Court 2020: Fires in Northern California declared Major Disaster Born: Claude Debussy, Dorothy Parker, John Lee Hooker [blues], Ray Bradbury, Honor Blackman [Goldfinger], Norman Schwarzkopf, Carl Yastrzemski, Valerie Ha...

 History: 1619: First known African Americans arrive at Point Comfort Virginia - sold into slavery 1741: Vitus Bering sights Alaska 1882: Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuts 1896: Dial telephone patented 1913: First pilot to parachute from an aircraft 1920: American Professional Football Association forms--later NFL 1940: Churchill--Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few 1965: Rolling Stones release "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" 1968: Russia invades Czechoslovakia 2019: 22 small Texas towns have computer systems hacked and held for ransom Born: Benjamin Harrison, Jacqueline Susann, Jim Reeves, Don King, Ron Paul, Isaac Hayes [Shaft], Connie Chung, Robert Plant, Rudy Gatlin, Al Roker, Amy Adams, Andrew Garfield [Hacksaw Ridge],  Died: Bernard of Clairvaux [preached sermon advocating Second Crusade], Aefgen Listinck [Dutch anabaptist burned at the stake], Charles Floyd [only casualty of Lewis & Clark Expedition], Willia...

History: 1692: Five people hanged during Salem Witch Trials [19 total] 1909: Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens 1934: First All-American Soap Box Derby 1960: Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 2 rats, 40 mice, 1 rabbit and fruit flies into space and safely retunr them alive 1995: Shannon Faulkner quits after 5 days as first woman at the Citadel  2020: Apple is first company to be valued at $2 trillion Born: Seth Thomas [clocks], Charles Hires [root beer], Orville Wright, Coco Chanel, Ogden Nash, Malcolm Forbes, Gene Roddenberry [Star Trek], Frank McCourt [Angela's Ashes], Bill Shoemaker, Renee Richards, Bobby Richardson, Jill St. John, Fred Thompson, Edwin Hawkins [O Happy Day], Bill Clinton, Tipper Gore, Peter Gallagher, Morten Andersen, Kyra Sedgwick, Matthew Perry, Kirk Herbstreit,  Died: Augustus Caesar, Blaise Pascal, Groucho Marx, Linus Pauling, Tony Scott [Top Gun], Dick Gregory,  Thought: Well, we have chosen the right path, chosen the right prophets and now must choose the...

 History: 1840: American Society of Dental Surgeons founded 1972: First mail-order catalogue --A M Ward 1894: Bureau of Immigration created 1920: Tennessee votes to ratify 19th Amendment--Women's right to vote 1930: Eastern Airlines begins operation 1955: Hurricane Diane kills 400 1958: Lolita published 1962: Peter, Paul and Mary release "If I Had a Hammer" 1963: James Meredith graduates from Ole Miss 2017: Stephen Bannon fired by President Trump Born: Virginia Dare [1st English child born in America], Antonio Salieri, Meriwether Lewis, Marshall Field [retailer], Max Factor, Shelley Winters, Rosalynn Carter, Gene Bartow, Roman Polanski, Roberto Clemente, Robert Redford, Patrick Swayze, Denis Leary, Christian Slater, Cameron Smith,  Died:Genghis Khan, Josiah Spode [pottery], Walter Chrysler, BF Skinner [psychologist], Christopher McCandless [Into the Wild], Elmer Bernstein, Robert Novak, Don Pardo [announcer], Jack Whitaker [sportscaster],  Thought: Continuing to look at t...

 History: 1807: Robert Fulton's Clermont begins first trip up the Hudson 1859: First airmail--via balloon 1870: First ascent of Mt. Rainier 1891: Electric self-starter for automobile patented 1903: Joseph Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University to start the Pulitzer Prize 1915: Galveston Hurricane kills 275 1945: Korea divided along the 38th parallel 1946: George Orwell publishes Animal Farm 1952: "Fallout" first used [NY Times] 1957: Bad day for Alice Roth at the ballpark--hit twice by Richie Ashburn foul balls--1st breaks her nose, second hits her on the stretcher as she is taken out 1969: Hurricane Camille kills 259 on the Gulf Coast 1973: Willie Mays hits his last home run 1998: Clinton admits "improper physical relationship" with Monica Lewinsky 2012: Moscow bans Gay pride events for 100 years 2020: University of NC is first college to send students home and convert to online due to Covid Born: Davy Crockett, Frederick Russell [1st effective typh...

 History: 1863: Chickamauga campaign begins 1896: Gold discovered in the Klondike 1898: Roller Coaster patented 1954: Sports Illustrated first published 1962: Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatles' drummer 2008: Usain Bolt sets new 100m record to win Olympic Gold--9.69 seconds 2021: First official water shortage declared at Lake Mead Born: Amos Alonzo Stagg, T.E. Lawrence [of Arabia], Robert Ringling [circus], Menachem Begin, Fess Parker, Frank Gifford, Robert Culp, Tony Trabert, Forest Mars [candy], Lorraine Gary [Jaws], Kathie Lee Gifford, James Cameron, Angela Bassett, Madonna, Timothy Hutton. Steve Carell, Will Zalatoris Died: Duncan Phyfe [furniture maker], John Pemberton [invented Coca-Cola], Robert Bunsen [Bunsen burner], Henri Desgrange [founded Tour de France], Babe Ruth, Margaret Mitchell, Bela Lugosi, Elvis Presley, Amanda Blake [Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke], John Cameron Swayze, Idi Amin, Aretha Franklin, Peter Fonda,  Thought: Yesterday, we looked at the command "d...

 History: 1534: Ignatius of Loyola co-founds Society of Jesus [Jesuits] in Montmartre France 1620: Mayflower sails from Southhampton with 102 Pilgrims 1824: Freed American slaves found Liberia 1848" Waldo Hanchett patents the dental chair 1911: Crisco shortening introduced by Proctor & Gamble 1914: Panama Canal opens 1939: The Wizard of Oz premiers 1964: Ralph Boston sets the then long jump record--27'3.5" 1969: Woodstock Festival opens 1979: Apocalypse Now released 2017: Genetic studies reveal that the apple originated in Kazakhstan Born: Napoleon, Sir Walter Scott [Rob Roy], Edna Ferber, Julia Child, Phyllis Schlafly, Rose Marie, Oscar Peterson [jazz], Stephen Breyer, Gene Upshaw [NFL], Stieg Larsson, Melinda Gates, Debra Messing, Ben Affleck, Kerri Walsh [beach volleyball champ], Jennifer Lawrence Died: Macbeth, Wiley Post, Will Rogers, Kyle Rote,  Thought: Reading Matthew 7:1-5 this morning. In His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus has presented the Beatitudes--how to be...

 History: 1587: Manteo is the first Native American baptized as a Protestant.  1907: First taxis in NYC 1913: Stainless steel invented 1914: Greyhound Bus line begins 1935: First roller derby 1942: Manhattan Project begins 1956: Elvis releases "Don't Be Cruel" 1961: Construction of Berlin Wall begins 1967: Bonnie and Clyde released 2004: Hurricane Charley hits Florida 2016: Michael Phelps ends his career with 23rd gold medal Born: Annie Oakley, Giovanni Agnelli [Fiat], Alfred Hitchcock, Ben Hogan, Rex Humbard, Fidel Castro, Don Ho [Tiny Bubbles], Tony Cloninger [Braves pitcher who hit two grand slams in one game], Janet Yellen, Kathleen Battle, Dan Fogelberg, Betsy King, David Feherty, John Slattery,  Died: Ira Sankey [Gospel Hymns including the tune for Faith is the Victory, song director for Dwight Moody], Florence Nightingale, HG Wells, WO Bentley [Bentley Motors], JW Marriott, Mickey Mantle, Julia Child, Phil Rizzuto, Les Paul, Edwin Newman, Helen Gurley Brown, Nanci ...

 History: 1851: Isaac Singer patents sewing machine 1865: Joseph Lister performs first antiseptic surgery 1898: Protocol ending Spanish-American War signed 1908: First Model T built 1930: Clarence Birdseye awarded patent for quick freezing food 1953: Ann Davison is first woman to sail solo across the Atlantic 1988: Last Temptation of Christ released 1994: Baseball player's strike cancels World Series [my son and I went out on strike and have not returned] 1994: Stephen Breyer becomes Supreme Court Justice 2017: Car rams protestors at Unite the Right March in Charlottesville VA 2021: FDA authorizes 3rd booster for people with weak immune systems Born: Robert Mills [architect, Washington Monument], Katharine Lee Bates [America the Beautiful], Christy Mathewson [HOF pitcher who refused to pitch on Sundays], Cecil B DeMille, Jane Wyatt, Porter Wagoner, Buck Owens, George Soros, Parnelli Jones, Pete Sampras,  Died: Cleopatra, William Blake, George Stephenson [Father of Railways], E...

 History:  1527: Zurich town council agrees to surpress Anabaptists 1858: First ascent of the Eiger 1866: First roller rink opens--Newport RI 1919: Green Bay Packers founded--Indian Packing Company 1934: First federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz 1964: Movie "Hard Days Night" released 1965: Watts riots begin 1973: American Graffiti opens in theaters 1988: Al-Qaeda formed 2008: Airbnb formed 2020: Biden announces Kemala Harris as his running mate Born: Rosamund Johnson [Lift Every Voice and Sing],  Alex Haley, Arlene Dahl, Carl Rowan, Jerry Falwell Sr., Steve Wozniak [Apple], Hulk Hogan, Viola Davis, Joe Rogan, Chris Hmsworth,  Died: Augustus Toplady [Rock of Ages], Andrew Carnegie, Edith Wharton, Jean Bugatti [auto designer], Jackson Pollack, Peter Cushing, Herb Brooks [Miracle on Ice coach], Mike Douglas, Robin Williams [guest in the owner's box at Niners game with his two sons], Trini Lopez, Sumner Redstone, Lowell Mason [composer who wrote the music for Nearer My ...

 History:  70: Titus sets Temple on fire in Jerusalem 1675: Foundation stone laid for Royal Observatory in Greenwich 1787: Mozart completes "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" 1833: Chicago incorporates--200 1846: Smithsonian established 1950: Sunset Boulevard premiers 1960: Psycho premiers 1993: Ruth Bader Ginsberg sworn in as Supreme Court Justice 1996: Jack Kemp picked as VP candidate by Bob Dole--Jack was our guest for the Niners-Falcons game in Atlanta that December. Enjoyed spending an evening with Jack and his wife.  2019: Jeffrey Epstein found dead in his cell 2021: Andrew Cuomo resigns amid sexual harassment scandal Born: Henri Nestle, Herbert Hoover, Eddie Fisher, Bobby Hatfield [Righteous Brothers], Ronnie Spector [Ronettes], Rosanna Arquette, Antonio Banderas, Kenny Perry, Suzanne Collins [author, Hunger Games],  Died: Rin Tin Tin, Robert Goddard, Estes Kefauver, Patrick Kennedy [JFK's son], Isaac Hayes [Shaft], Tony Esposito, Joseph Scriven [What a Friend We Have i...

 History: 1173: Construction begins on Tower of Pisa 1378: French bishops declare Pope Urban's election invalid due to pressure from Italian mobs. Results in Schism where 2 and then three claimed to be pope. 1483: Opening of the Sistine Chapel 1854: Thoreau published "Walden" 1898: Rudolph Diesel receives patent for his engine 1930: 113 degrees at Perryville TN 1945: Nagasaki bombed 1971: Satchel Paige inducted into baseball HOF 1974: Nixon resigns 1975: First NFL game in the Superdome 2016: Michael Phelps wins his 20th Olympic Gold Born: Harry Mills [Mills Brothers], Ernest Angley, Bob Cousy, Rod Laver, Chris Haney [invented Trivial Pursuit], Doug Williams [NFL], Melanie Griffith, Michael Kors, Whitney Houston, Hoda Kotb, Deion Sanders, Chris Cuomo, Chamique Holdsclaw, Anna Kendrick,   Died: Trajan, Hugo Boss, Abigail Folger [Folgers Coffee, killed by the Mansons], Sharon Tate, Jerry Garcia, Gregory Hines, Bernie Mac, Michael Brown [killed by policeman in Ferguson MO], F...

 History: 70: Romans under Titus destroy the Tower of Antonia in Jerusalem 1844: Brigham Young chosen as head of the Mormon Church after the death of Joseph Smith 1854: Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges 1870: First America's Cup Race 1898: Kellogg invents corn flakes 1945: Truman signs the United Nations Charter 1960: Itsy Bitsy Yellow Polkadot Bikini hits #1 1974: Nixon announces he will resign tomorrow. 1992: Original Dream Team wins Gold at the Olympics 2000: Confederate sub HL Hunley raised after 136 years--see it in Charleston 2021: USA Women win 7th straight Olympic Gold in basketball Born: Emiliano Zapata, Bob Smith [co-founder Alcoholics Anonymous], Esther Williams, Webb Pierce, Jerry Tarkanian, Mel Tillis, Dustin Hoffman, Connie Stevens, Floyd Reese, Deborah Norville, Bruce Matthews, Roger Federer,  Died: Jacqueline Cochran [1st women to break sound barrier], Alan Ameche, James Irwin [astronaut], Fay Wray, Patricia Neal, Glen Campbell, Bobby Bowden Th...

 History: 1774: Mother Ann Lee arrives in America --founder of the Shaker Movement 1819: Norwich University founded in VT--1st private military school in US 1890: First execution via electric chair 1939: First Dinah Shore Show radio broadcast 1945: Atomic bom dropped on Hiroshima 1954: Channel 5 Nashville begins broadcasting 1965: Voting Rights Act signed 1997: Nashville Predators name Barry Trotz coach 2011: Seal Team 6 helicopter shot down in Afghanistan killing 38 2018: 65 people shot in Chicago in one weekend Born: Alfred Tennyson, Edith Roosevelt [Teddy's wife], Alexander Fleming [penicillin], Dutch Schultz, Lucille Ball, Robert Mitchum, Andy Warhol, David Robinson,  Died: Anne Hathaway [wife of Shakespeare], James Springer White [co-founder Seventh Day Adventist], Harry Reasoner, Louise Suggs [co-founder LPGA], Pete Fountain,  Thought: Continuing with the three outward practices that Jesus warns about in Matthew 6. Today He warns about praying for recognition. Matth...

 History: 1305: William Wallace captured 1861: First personal income tax--3% over $800 1864: David Farragut wins Battle of Mobile--Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead 1882: Standard Oil of NJ founded 1914: 1st electric traffic light in US--Cleveland  1924: Little Orphan Annie comic strip published 1936: Jesse Owens wins third Gold Medal in Berlin 1953: From Here to Eternity released 1981: Reagan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers 2007: Tom Glavine wins 300th game Born: Guy de Maupassant, John Huston, Neil Armstrong, Herb Brooks [Miracle on Ice], Loni Anderson, Maureen McCormick [Marcia Brady], Patrick Ewing, Lolo Jones, Patrick Reed Died: Friedrich Engels [Communist Manifesto], Marilyn Monroe, Richard Burton, Paul Brown, Alec Guinness, Toni Morrison,  Thought: Beginning in Matthew 6, Jesus addresses three outward practices of righteousness, giving, praying and fasting.  First He gives a general warning: Beware. What does it mean to beware? Be careful or cautious; ...

History: 1821: First edition of Saturday Evening Poet 1892: Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother murdered with an axe 1936: Jesse Owens wins 2nd Gold in Berlin 1944: Anne Frank arrested 1956: Elvis releases "Hound Dog" 2019: Gunman kills 9 and injures 27 at a bar in Dayton  2021: Covid death toll at 4.2 million Born: Louis Vuitton, Ernesto Maserati, Louis Armstrong, Warren Avis [Avis], Maurice Richard [NHL], Billy Bob Thornton, Alberto Gonzales [Belmont Law School Dean], Barack Obama, Roger Clemens, Jeff Gordon, Kurt Busch, Meghan Markle,  Died: Hans Christian Andersen, Daniel Williams [1st open heart surgery], Melvyn Douglas, Victor Mature, James Brady [Brady Bill],   Thought: In Matthew 5, Jesus has expanded and explained several of the commandments. each beginning with "You have heard that the ancients were told" or "you have heard." He has dealt with murder, adultery, false vows. Now He turns to a commandment not contained specifically in the Ten ...