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The WallBuilders Show

Gratitude In Hard Times

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

What if the most meaningful Thanksgiving starts with only five kernels of corn? We revisit the holiday’s unvarnished origins and follow a line of gratitude that runs through blizzards, barracks, and battlefields. The Pilgrims faced disease, hunger, and loss, yet learned to give thanks for small mercies: a buried kettle of corn, new allies, enough wood for the fire, and the hope that the next winter might not claim them all. That stubborn gratitude didn’t ignore suffering; it taught people how...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture on Thanksgiving.

0:10.0

Thanks for joining us today.

0:10.8

Always taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective.

0:15.4

Hopefully, the hot topic today is turkey.

0:17.5

Hopefully you are spending some family time, getting together with family,

0:21.9

and maybe even getting to sit in a deer stand at some point over the next couple of days. Rick Green here with David Varton and Tim Varton, I know Tim Barton's going to be hunting at some point before the weekend's over. David, are you going to get to hunt any of this weekend? No, I'm not hunting any of this weekend. I've got too many other things going, but i don't know about this hot turkey thing i like

0:37.6

cold turkey on friday after thanksgiving's over come back man with the cold turkey that's great

0:42.4

i just like the dressing warmed up though i don't like cold dressing so yeah i i can go with the cold

0:47.1

turkey but yeah and what a wimp come on man be a man you can do cold dress it's okay

0:52.8

cold potato salad i can live with.

0:56.2

And I can even do the turkey.

0:57.8

But I also like a little steak with my turkey on Thanksgiving.

1:01.0

No, that's weird.

1:01.7

But okay, guys, let's talk to real reason for Thanksgiving.

1:05.6

I know a couple of guys that have written a few books about this kind of thing.

1:09.8

The American story, you guys cover

1:11.9

a lot of this history. And what a great time for us to remind folks about it. Yeah, I think there's

1:17.9

some really good lessons this year on it, too. I was just looking at some reports that have

1:22.3

really come out in the last couple of weeks. And it's creating some furor at the federal level,

1:28.1

trying to respond to some of the stuff. But there's a real rise in inscivility since COVID.

1:33.4

Since the COVID stuff, when you measure incivility, the way that people treat one another,

1:38.8

the way they go after one another, what they're doing on planes, what they're doing to

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