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Grace remains a universal tradition; Thanksgiving touch gets daily practice. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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We may not all be religious, but we all have something to be thankful for.
So on Thanksgiving Day, America will find itself saying grace.
We'll say it with moments of silence and long, flowery prayers. We'll say it in murmured words from old countries and ancient remembrances. We'll embellish familiar graces especially for the day, when guests come to share our meal. Some will sing, or weep, or smile as they chant traditional prayers and remember those no longer with us. Others will ad-lib awkward words of thanks to Whoever might be up there, listening.
``Come, Lord ...
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Thanksgiving Day: November 25, 2004.(Preaching Helps)(Bible readings)
Magazine article from: Currents in Theology and Mission
; ...with thanksgiving. We are called to pray and to trust God to provide for our needs. But that is not all. We are...even as we are in need and are making supplication to God. The people who were with Jesus in John's Gospel are making...us this bread always. They are making requests known to God in ...
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Proclamation 6954 - Thanksgiving Day, 1996. (by Pres. Bill Clinton, Nov. 11, 1996)(Transcript)
Newspaper article from: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
; ...liberty. In gratitude for God's gift of freedom and for...our families and worship God as we choose without fear...our voices in prayer to God, thanking Him in humility...people. Let us now, this Thanksgiving Day, reawaken ourselves and...of trust and thanks to God. Out of our right ...
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Was the tsunami an act of God?(Viewpoint)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; An act of God! That's what many call the tsunami disaster. But what kind of God would do such a thing? If a human being killed over...breadwinners, we would consider such a person a sociopath. Is God any less a sociopath if God is responsible for this...
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 "Worksop Guardian (Worksop, England)")
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What is God like?
Newspaper article from: Worksop Guardian (Worksop, England)
; What is God like - your competition entries reveal all...Wilkinson of Worksop's Poplars Church... what is God like? And his call for readers to submit their...website at www.worksopguardian.co.uk WHAT is God like, it's hard to say Does he hear me when...
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God's delight.(Faith matters)(Column)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; I HAVE ALWAYS been fascinated by the phrase the Lord make his face shine upon you. God's blessing, God's protection, God's peace, God's grace all part of that same benediction--are great goods, and if I had to choose between...
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The God Who Provides: Biblical Images of Divine Nourishment.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin
; THE GOD WHO PROVIDES: BIBLICAL IMAGES OF DIVINE NOURISHMENT...focuses on texts that reveal no explicit association of God with femaleness. Emphasizing the role of metaphor, here the metaphor of the God who feeds, she ably demonstrates that this female...
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God's holiness.(God as holy versus God as love)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...friend directly: Do Christians believe that God is holy? My friend was initially taken aback...Revelation that emphasize the holiness of God. She recalled the passage in the Lord's Prayer where we indicate that God's name is hallowed. What is the rabbi really...
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Who God is.(BACK BURNER)
Magazine article from: Catholic New Times
; GOD. What word is more used and abused and understood in meanings...from exclamation to the trivial and the thoughtless? The word God has become a catch-all term, a non-name, even a sigh or a...young man bounded up to me, face flushed. Do you believe in God? he erupted. Taken by surprise, I tried to give an ...
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The Secret Life of God.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight
; The Secret Life of God Rabbi David Aaron Published by Random House...condition he calls theophobia --a notion of God as a cosmic party pooper and stern unrelenting...insecurities. He, therefore, set out to discover God as he really is through the study of the...
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God happens: the timeliness of the Triune God. (involvement of eternal God in the temporal affairs of humans)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; Does God need to wear a wristwatch, or glance at a clock now and then? If God is eternal, and if God holds all events together simultaneously, does it matter to God that we experience events sequentially? Do openness, contingency and freedom in temporal...
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