Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 2, 2011
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THE SUFFERINGS OF THE PILGRIMS
The sufferings of these pilgrims has been a theme often repeated and yet it remains an amazing story. Within three months of the Mayflower landing in December 1620, only about fifty of the original hundred survived. Their graves had to be unmarked and grassed over to
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Contributed by Mark Ferrante on Jan 19, 2007
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Pilgrims Progress...
Well, on Saturday, about midnight they began to pray, and continued in prayer till almost break of day.
Now, a little before it was day, good Christian, as one half amazed, brake out into this passionate speech: What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"The Pilgrims came to America not to accumulate riches but to worship God, and the greatest wealth they left unborn generations was their heroic
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 2, 2011
THE PILGRIMS ACKNOWLEDGED GOD
The pilgrims did not believe that their colonies advanced because they were stronger, wiser or more righteous than others. With the recognition of their imperfection and sin, and with faith and much prayer, they sought to acknowledge God and his Kingdom. The blessing
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Contributed by Paul Barreca on Nov 18, 2011
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THE SECOND PILGRIM WINTER
After the first Thanksgiving with Massosiat and the Indians, the Pilgrims were excited that another ship arrived with 35 new colonists. Quoting again from William Bradford, “they were all landed; but there was not so much as bisket-cake or any other victialls [AO] for
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In the book, Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan describes how the pilgrim realizes his guilt and lostness. Saddled to his back is a heavy burden of sin and shame. "I fear that this burden upon my back will sink me lower than the grave," he says, staggering under its weight.
But then he approaches a
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 23, 2008
The Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower were not the first to celebrate Thanksgiving in the New World. Several groups before them had done similar things.
But the Plymouth Rock Thanksgiving is the one we model our celebration after; for one thing, it included turkey:
Governor William Bradford
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sean Harder on Sep 29, 2010
HARD PLACES CANNOT BE MENDED
How many of you have read the Pilgrim’s Progress? This is a classic allegory of the Christian journey.
The main character, Christian, is on a journey from the city of Destruction to the Celestial City, and along the way him and all the other pilgrims come across
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 30, 2008
What’s giving Thanks all about
A. The pilgrims did it
1. In 1621, the pilgrims celebrated the first harvest at Plymouth
2. To them, it was a religious holiday celebrating all that God gave them
The Pilgrim Proclamation of 1623
Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2009
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THE BROOM AND THE WATER
In his Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan describes Interpreter’s house, which Pilgrim entered during the course of his journey to the Celestial City. The parlor of the house was completely covered with dust, and when a man took a broom and started to sweep, he and the others
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 3, 2009
"It is easier to isolate ourselves than live as pilgrims in society. It is easier to assimilate and be like everyone else than to live as pilgrims in society. But God calls us to take the more difficult path: to participate in society
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Paul Barreca on Nov 18, 2011
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THE FIRST THANKSGIVING
Let's consider the first Thanksgiving in America. It was in the fall of 1621, one year after the Pilgrim’s landed. There was great affliction in their voyage. 102 Pilgrims the left Holland, stopped briefly in England before sailing to America. They were at sea for 66
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Nov 11, 2001
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The following proclamation was made by Governor Bradford in 1623, 3 years after the Pilgrims settled at Plymouth;
To all ye Pilgrims,
Inasmuch as the great father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, squashes and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to
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Contributed by Shawn Rose on Jul 7, 2008
Governor William Bradford, Plymouth Colony - "To all ye pilgrims: Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as He
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
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In Saudi Arabia today, millions of Muslims are observing the festival of Eid al-Adha. In this festival, Muslim pilgrims will pass 3 pillars. These pillars represent the Devil. All of the pilgrims there will take turns throwing stones at those pillars. In the past 20 years, over 3200 Muslims
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 18, 2003
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SHEDDING LIGHT ON THANKSGIVING
The Associated Press, New York, carried this short piece on the first Thanksgiving:
"This time of year, classrooms across the United States are filled with tales of the first Thanksgiving feast. But children might not be getting the whole story, says Kenneth C.
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”Most of the New Testament Epistles were written from prison. Bunyan wrote
Pilgrim¹s Progress from jail. Florence Nightingale, too ill to move from her
bed, reorganized the hospitals of England. Semi paralyzed and under constant
menace of apoplexy, Pasteur was tireless in his attack on disease.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
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HARD WORK IS WORTH IT
The story is told of a nursery worker about to plant a number of young saplings, some straight and some crooked, thus reasoned with himself – "These straight saplings will no doubt grow up to be fine trees without much attention on my part; but I will see if, by proper
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