How about that BYU football team? My alma mater was picked to win four games this season. However the season turns out, it will have been an amazing season. I also have five other reasons why I am deeply thankful this year. I hope these blessings transform your life as they have transformed mine.
The love of God in Christ is the foundation of the historic Christian faith. Knowing I am loved by God frees me from chasing approval and people pleasing. His love gives me the courage to love boldly and live fully. When we are honest, we know life is messy, and sin stains every part of our existence. Not halfway, but totally. This truth humbles me. I simply receive it as a gift.
Grace is the unmerited favor of God. Grace meets us in our failures. Grace teaches me that life is not about what I can do for God, but about what He has done and continues to do for me. That truth keeps me humble and reliant on him. My prayer for all of us this Thanksgiving is that we would cultivate a deep, abiding thankfulness that fuels every aspect of our lives. The Rev. Derwin L. Defense secretary's contempt for Black military leaders has roots in his religion's defense of white supremacy.
The changes Francis brought to the papacy were more than skin deep. He opened the church to the outside world in ways none of his predecessors had done before.
One of the most prominent representatives of the Jewish community in Germany, Charlotte Knobloch, has expressed her shock regarding the performance of the far-right Alternative for Germany AfD in Sunday's election. Germany is a different country as of today," said Knobloch, who is the president of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria. Everything is at stake now: our democracy," Knobloch said. Pope Francis was well enough to meet with the Vatican secretary of state to approve new decrees for possible saints, the Vatican said Tuesday, in announcing some major governing decisions that suggest he is getting essential work done and looking ahead despite being hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia.
