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First Principles: Americans Should Always Remember Our Blessings

“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial … Continue reading

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The Answer

This morning’s sermon was based on Acts 10:34-43. The Answer by Michael Romani In this world so filled with vile There is an answer to reconcile While we fight against that dark cancer We can know that Jesus is the … Continue reading

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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Coincidence

You can blame coincidence I’ll just thank Providence As I do every single day When I silently, quietly pray Counting my blessings With no need for second guessing You say you didn’t hear me stumbling But, I lost my way … Continue reading

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First Principles: The Precious Blessings of America Need To Be Appreciated

“How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!”  – Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to James Monroe, on June 17, 1785 It is too easy to … Continue reading

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First Principles: Freedom Requires the Will To Fight For It

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”  – Thomas Paine The series of The American Crisis essays can be read in their entirety here: http://www.ushistory.org/Paine/crisis/index.htm

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First Principles: Seeming Misfortunes Are Often Blessings In Disguise

“A few years’ experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.”  – George Mason, Father of the Bill of Rights

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