Emphasis Preaching Journal

Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday. It is a national holiday. It is pretty much a law that we give thanks to God on this day, and the presidents have proclaimed it as such. But we are an ungrateful people, so we cloud it up with football and turkey and parades and parties and whatnot.

Here's something: each football game will begin with the national anthem. Or they think they do. Most people know the words to the first verse of the Star Spangled Banner. They think that's the National Anthem, but they don't know that it has four verses.