KEEP YOUR PLANS IN CONTEXT (16)
by Tony Thomas
Scripture: Jeremiah 29:11
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Keep Your Plans in Context (16)
Series: Life Verses?
Tony Thomas
Jeremiah 29:11
I love history, but I know that some people have no appreciation for it, whatsoever. Over the years I've wasted hundreds of dollars on my kids and grandkids, dragging them into museums, onto battlefields, and around historical sites. And I know that some of you cringe and groan when I mention anything to do with anything prior to the last 24 hours!
George Santayana was a Spanish historian and philosopher. He once said, ''Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'' With that in mind, let me attempt to make a point.
Instead of going back to 1492 and Christopher Columbus, or 1607 and our first English settlement in Jamestown, or 1776 and the Revolutionary War, or 1861 and the Civil War, how about we go back seventeen years?
If you have a graduating college senior, he won't remember, and unless your kids are juniors and/or seniors in high school, they weren't even born yet! But the rest of us remember where we were, who we were with, and what we were doing on 9-11-2001.
For the sake of those who have forgotten or never heard, two airplanes flew into NY's Twin Towers. A third jet crashed into the Pentagon, and a fourth jet was deliberately flown into a farmer's field in Pennsylvania while most of us watched it happen on live television.
If you weren't alive, you have no context to appreciate what we experienced. You have to rely on firsthand accounts and photographs from history books, because most of our TV networks still refuse to replay footage of when the towers fell.
Instead, a small segment has worked overtime to revise history and hundreds of conspiracy theories abound. Some want us to believe that Wall Street investors orchestrated the attack to manipulate the stock market while political enemies used the CIA and military to blame Al-Qaeda.
History has often been revised by picking and choosing which facts to remember - and which to d ...
Series: Life Verses?
Tony Thomas
Jeremiah 29:11
I love history, but I know that some people have no appreciation for it, whatsoever. Over the years I've wasted hundreds of dollars on my kids and grandkids, dragging them into museums, onto battlefields, and around historical sites. And I know that some of you cringe and groan when I mention anything to do with anything prior to the last 24 hours!
George Santayana was a Spanish historian and philosopher. He once said, ''Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'' With that in mind, let me attempt to make a point.
Instead of going back to 1492 and Christopher Columbus, or 1607 and our first English settlement in Jamestown, or 1776 and the Revolutionary War, or 1861 and the Civil War, how about we go back seventeen years?
If you have a graduating college senior, he won't remember, and unless your kids are juniors and/or seniors in high school, they weren't even born yet! But the rest of us remember where we were, who we were with, and what we were doing on 9-11-2001.
For the sake of those who have forgotten or never heard, two airplanes flew into NY's Twin Towers. A third jet crashed into the Pentagon, and a fourth jet was deliberately flown into a farmer's field in Pennsylvania while most of us watched it happen on live television.
If you weren't alive, you have no context to appreciate what we experienced. You have to rely on firsthand accounts and photographs from history books, because most of our TV networks still refuse to replay footage of when the towers fell.
Instead, a small segment has worked overtime to revise history and hundreds of conspiracy theories abound. Some want us to believe that Wall Street investors orchestrated the attack to manipulate the stock market while political enemies used the CIA and military to blame Al-Qaeda.
History has often been revised by picking and choosing which facts to remember - and which to d ...
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