Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12, too.

This is resistance and reformation on the fight- laugh feast record.

Thomas Chalmers declared,

Every day that passes should be lived in light of the past, in light of the future,

and in light of eternity past, in light of the future, and in light of eternity.

Indeed, every day is an anniversary. History is so rich and resplendent that there is not a

single date that does not offer great lessons in heroism or enemy, brilliance or foolishness, inspiration or admonition.

There is not a single date that does not point us toward the remarkable cultural and spiritual

legacy of our Christian inheritance in Western civilization.

And there is not even a wrinkle in time that does not bear

the obvious impress of God's own good providence. Alas, you can hardly tell that by looking at the

average history textbook these days. If history is, as Stephen Mansfield has quipped,

more than dates and debt people, you would never know it based on most of the printed

evidence. There are very few things that modern historians can agree on, but when it comes to God, there is sudden

consensus. The long-held notion that history is his story is fiercely resisted in our day.

But history is full of the indecipherable mysteries of providence and thus any attempt to reduce

the process of its legends, epics, movements, heroes, and villains to mere mechanical or

material science is destined to be more than a little ridiculous as the sad legacies ofs, Toynbee, Wells, and Wilson have proven.

It is true that certain undeniably fixed milestones emerge, like the battles of Hastings and

Waterloo, the regicides of Louis XVI and Charles I, the triumphs of Bismarck and Rishaloo,

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