On this our national Thanksgiving Day, I want to encourage all of my friends to remember that it is right that Americans as a people give public and private thanks to their God, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Though we might debate the legitimacy of the concept of a federal holiday, our Pilgrim fathers would have squarely stood on the idea that both the church and the civil magistrate have the authority to declare special days of humiliation, fasting, prayers and thanksgiving. Though our Pilgrim spiritual fathers rejected as unbiblical and did not follow a liturgical church calendar, they defended from the Holy Scripture the biblical basis for “special” days of thanksgiving, and frequently called for such days.

I look at Thanksgiving Day as one of the last remaining vestiges of the Pilgrim ideal. Though in its modern incarnation the pluralists in our midst may try to reduce such days to “Turkey Day” or even a day of thanks to everybody’s private God, neither the Founding Fathers who invoked the name of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in their official days of thanksgiving would have had it so. The continued existence of these days (along with the many charter documents of our nation invoking the name of the Lord and His law) remind us that we are a nation in an objective covenant with the God of the Pilgrims and the signers of the Declaration, notwithstanding the predominance of covenant-breakers in our society and state.

All of you who stood with Roy Moore, remember on this Thanksgiving Day that the state must acknowledge the Trinitarian God of Christianity alone. More important than even the crucial issues of abortion and the sodomite invasion in our land—-more important than any other issue before our nation, is whether or not we will acknowledge the God of Scripture as the source of law, life and liberty.

So rejoice in a national day of thanksgiving which has its origins not in paganism, not in statism, not in religious syncretism or hellish pluralism, but in the theonomic principle that the state, like the family and the church is under God and bound to acknowledge him.

Do this and give thanks today for Jesus Christ and His mercy on our land. Do this and remember that our loyalty to Jesus Christ and His revelation compels us to view as blasphemy the suggestion whether it come from clerics or magistrates that it is appropriate for Americans to give thanks to any God but Jesus Christ.

How thankful I am that we can yet raise the standard of our Lord without being taken to the gallows or clapped in irons. How thankful I am to be given the honor to serve in the army of the Lord in the epic battle of the ages. How thankful I am that we can do more than dream, we can act. How thankful I am for a father who taught me the law of God, and a mother who stood by him through thick and thin. How thankful I am for a wife who is my joy, my life, my love and my yokefellow in the battle. How thankful I am for my children which are the strength of my arm. How thankful I am for the families of Vision Forum who, heart and soul, are committed to the battle. How thankful I am for a local church in which God has turned the hearts of the parents to their children and children to their parents. How thankful I am that as evil waxes worse, the grace of good is seen more clearly amongst the remnant. How thankful I am for each of you who share a vision for multi-generational faithfulness, covenant keeping, biblical patriarchy, and gratitude and honor for those parents and spiritual leaders who walked before so that we could enjoy the fruits of their sacrifices. Oh, there is so much for which to be thankful.

May God give you a joyful day of thanksgiving.

In the name of the Son Who Gives Life and Liberty, I am

Your Friend, Doug