Thursday; January 8
Today is an interesting day in U. S. history. On January 8, 1815 the famous Battle of New Orleans was fought. It was from this battle General Andrew Jackson gained political clout and Johnny Horton recorded a Number 1 record (some 145 years later). Interestingly, Johnny Horton was not the only one who was impacted by a delay – you see the Treaty of Ghent had been signed on December 24, 1914 which effectively ended the war between the Americans and British. The problem was that the word of the peace didn’t get to New Orleans before the hostilities began. That seems kind of ironic (and maybe even a bit laughable) until we realize that there were over 2000 casualties in that skirmish. To those individuals and their families, this was no laughing matter. As I thought about this, I got to wondering how many people are suffering today because they haven’t heard the message of the gospel of Jesus? With the death and resurrection of Jesus, sin and suffe...