Monthly Archives: December 2018

“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.”  Ephesians 6:12 There is a war on Christmas.  We see it every year at this time.  A third-grader in a large suburban public school was told that he could not put a religious message in the goodie bags he wanted to share with classmates at their “Winter…..

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Ypres, Belgium, about 20 miles east of the English Channel, occupied a strategic position during the First World War.  It was at the center of the German attempt to quickly subdue France in an operation called The Schlieffen Plan, devised by Count Alfred von Schlieffen in 1906. Because the area was so important, three major battles were fought there during the war. The First Battle of Ypres, was actually five major battles that occurred from October 19 to November 22,…..

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