Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, in an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

A Christian worldview not only points us to what's true, it places us historically, within the

redemptive history of God and his creation.

In fact, there's no such thing as secular history.

The history of the world is in reality

part of God's redemptive history, or put differently, history can only be understood within the

larger creative and redemptive work of God in Christ Jesus. That's a long way to introduce

today, Thanksgiving, but it's an important framework to understand how God has moved and how he's worked throughout human history. Years ago, on Thanksgiving, but it's an important framework to understand how God has moved and how he's worked

throughout human history. Years ago, on Thanksgiving, Chuck Colson told a popular and important

story and a breakpoint commentary within this same sort of redemptive framework. Here's Chuck

Colson. Most of us know the story of the first Thanksgiving. At least we know the Pilgrim version.

But how many of us know the Indian viewpoint? No, I'm not talking about some revisionist,

politically correct version of history. I'm talking about the amazing story of the way God used

an Indian name Squanto as a special instrument of his providence.

Historical accounts of Squanto's life vary, but historians

believe that around 1608, more than a decade before the pilgrims arrived, a group of English

traders sailed to what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts. When the trusting Wampanog Indians came out to

trade, the traders took them prisoner, transported them to Spain, and sold them into

slavery. It was an unimaginable horror, but God had an amazing plan for one of the captured

Indians, a boy named Squanto. Squantor was bought by a well-meaning Spanish monk, who treated

him well and taught him the Christian faith. Squanto eventually made his way to England and worked in the

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