Recommended Christian Books

Spiritual Leadership by  J. Oswald Sanders                                      Moody Press
Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret by Dr. & Mrs. Howard Taylor            Moody Press
Failure:  The Back Door to Success by Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer             Moody Press
A Survey of Bible Doctrine by Charles Ryrie                                     Moody Press
The Battle for the Bible  by Harold Lindsell                                       Zondervan
The Islamic Debate by Josh McDowell                                               Here's Life Publications
Attributes of God by Arthur Pink                                                         Baker Book House
Encourage Me by Charles Swindoll                                                     Multnomah Press
The Calvary Road by Roy Hesson                                                      Moody Press
Lords of the Earth by Don Richardson                                                Regal Books
An Outline of New Testament Survey by Walter Dunnett                   Moody Press
George Mueller by Faith Coxe Bailey                                                 Moody Press
The Kingdom of the Cults by Dr. Walter Martin                                      Bethany House
The Bible in Balance by Harold Lindsell                                             Zondervan
Who Says? by Fritz Ridenour                                                                 Regal Books
Protestant Biblical Interpretation by Bernard Ramm                         Baker Book House

 

Recommended Bible Study Books

Naves Topical Bible 

Ungers Bible Handbook

Ungers Bible Dictionary or The New Bible Dictionary

Youngs or Strong's Concordance or New American Standard Concordance   (Or NIV)

Wycliffe Bible Commentary 

Commentary on the Whole Bible   by Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

The Bible Knowledge Commentary (Old and New Testament)

Interpreting the Bible by A. Berkeley Mickelson

Small Business Saturday

Today is  Small and Local Business Day.  Let's help the economy get better by shopping at these local places.  They might just start hiring again.  Go Small.  Go Local.  For a listing of my neighborhood places, click on the tab on top.  More will be added as I discover them.  If you would like for me to advertise your business,  send me a message.  I'm everywhere!

A Proclamation of Praise & Thanksgiving

     The Continental-Confederation Congress, a legislative body that governed the United States from 1774 to 1789, contained an extraordinary number of deeply religious men. The amount of energy that Congress invested in encouraging the practice of religion in the new nation exceeded that expended by any subsequent American national government. Although the Articles of Confederation did not officially authorize Congress to concern itself with religion, the citizenry did not object to such activities. This lack of objection suggests that both the legislators and the public considered it appropriate for the national government to promote a nondenominational, nonpolemical Christianity.
     Congress appointed chaplains for itself and the armed forces, sponsored the publication of a Bible, imposed Christian morality on the armed forces, and granted public lands to promote Christianity among the Indians. National days of thanksgiving and of "humiliation, fasting, and prayer" were proclaimed by Congress at least twice a year throughout the war. Congress was guided by "covenant theology," a Reformation doctrine especially dear to New England Puritans, which held that God bound himself in an agreement with a nation and its people. This agreement stipulated that they "should be prosperous or afflicted, according as their general Obedience or Disobedience thereto appears." Wars and revolutions were, accordingly, considered afflictions, as divine punishments for sin, from which a nation could rescue itself by repentance and reformation.
     The first national government of the United States, was convinced that the "public prosperity" of a society depended on the vitality of its religion. Nothing less than a "spirit of universal reformation among all ranks and degrees of our citizens," Congress declared to the American people, would "make us a holy, that so we may be a happy people."

Happy Thanksgiving!

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                                                    Index

           Religion and the Founding of the American Republic 
           Religion and the Congress of the Confederation, 1774-89
                                            Broadside 
            Rare Books and Special Collections Division (109)
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                     Another Thanksgiving Proclamation
          Congressional Thanksgiving Day Proclamation October 11, 1792
                                         Broadside
          Rare Books and Special Collections Division (110)
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