Wednesday, November 26, 2025, 10:14 am | Randy Thomasson
What’s the real meaning of Thanksgiving?
Turn the word around and it’s GivingThanks.
But to whom do you give thanks (since you thank a person)?
On Thanksgiving Day and hopefully every day, humble, in-reality people will thank Creator God in Jesus’ Name for His creation, sustenance, Word, love, etc. Because, without Him, we’re nothing and have nothing!
A great way to help those at your table give God glory is to ask, “What are you thankful to God for?” This substantive question, when safely and patiently asked, helps others give God the credit where credit is due. (You might need to remind them, “What do you specifically thank God for?” instead of just being glad about something or crediting “fate.”)
See these videos to inspire you and others to praise Creator God in Jesus’ Name: Thankful | Thank You God
Remember, a grateful heart helps everyone. So challenge yourself to be thankful. Take a minute to reignite your soul to thank the Author of Life for air, food, water, and our basic necessities. Focus on the One who made the sun in the sky, the oceans, the animals, every original food and substance, and all we rely on, including the ground we walk on.
Lastly, stop and realize there are two types of people: Those who sincerely thank God, and those who “did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful” (Romans 1:21). And consider how thanking God not only gives God His due, but also calms your mind, since gratitude and worry cannot coexist in the same moment.
Thursday, September 11, 2025, 9:57 am | Randy Thomasson
With the Democrat-Party-controlled California State Legislature coming to its end of session this weekend, please focus your attention on the Governor’s office.
SaveCalifornia.com has identified 3 anti-family bills that Gavin Newsom, who’s still running for U.S. President, might be motivated to veto: AB 495 legal kidnapping, AB 727 requiring a transsexual group’s phone number on student ID cards, and AB 932 permitting males to invade females’ sports, restrooms, and locker rooms statewide.
TAKE QUICK ACTION:Please be part of a flood of emails and phone calls to Governor Newsom (send a separate webform message for each bill), who has until Oct. 12 to sign or veto bills.
To oppose AB 495, send this suggested message: “Governor Newsom, please veto AB 495. This bad bill is written so broadly, it would allow strangers, using a one-page form, to take physical custody of a child, move that child into their residence, decide the child’s schooling, and decide the child’s medical treatment — without any court oversight, background check, or verification with the child’s parent or legal guardian. Please veto this poorly-drafted bill threatening California parents and their children.”
To oppose AB 727, please send this separate message:“Governor Newsom, please veto AB 727. This invasive bill is not what parents want or children need. Mandating a transgender group’s phone number on student ID cards is inappropriate and offensive. The Trevor Project provides anonymous online forums for adult-child sex via its TrevorSpace chatrooms. AB 727 would drive a wedge between parents and their children — please veto this bad bill.”
To oppose AB 932, please send this separate message: “Governor Newsom, please veto AB 932. This deceptive bill would permit men and boys to invade women’s and girls’ sports teams, locker rooms, and showers. ‘Gender’ in the existing statutes includes ‘gender identity’ and ‘gender expression’ — meaning men and boys could force themselves into women’s and girls’ spaces in every public school, and every city and county in California. Please protect females and VETO this anti-girl bill!”
3 ways to contact Newsom’s legislative staff:
1. Web form: Go to the Governor’s web form, then select “Legislation Issues/Concerns,” then “Leave a Comment,” then select “Con,” then paste in your message, then enter your contact information, then click “submit.”
2. Phone: The Governor’s “constituent services” phones are answered by staffers who are paid to take your message. Call 916-445-2841 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday with a short verbal message: “I’m calling to urge the governor to VETO _____, a bad bill that would _____.”
3. Postal mail: You can write to Gov. Gavin Newsom, 1021 O Street, Suite 9000, Sacramento, CA 95814. Please put on the envelope and your letter (depending on which bad bill you’re opposing), “Re: AB 495 — Veto This Anti-Parent Bill” or “Re: AB 727 — Veto This Bill Promoting Adult-Child Sex.” or “Re: AB 932 — Veto This Anti-Girl Bill.”
When it comes to being an American who’s truly free from sinful slavery, context and definition matter!
As you prepare to celebrate Independence Day, stop and realize that the “freedom” our U.S. founding fathers wrote about and fought for is freedom to do what’s right in God’s sight.
This is why an American Revolutionary War cry was “No king but King Jesus.” And it’s why U.S. Founding Father John Adams said he wanted to live in a free country where he could exercise his Christian values without punishment.
So embrace your freedom! But instead of redefining freedom as freedom to sin and do whatever you want, understand that true American freedom is our freedom to obey God rather than obeying immoral tyrants – including the tyranny of our own flesh.
The American Founding is a unique and remarkable moment in human history, marking the beginning of a new order of the ages. It was the first time the people, as the only earthly source of political authority, exercised their right to establish government based on their consent.
As Alexander Hamilton observed in the opening salvo of the first Federalist paper, Americans were “to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government on the basis of reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.”
The Founding generation understood that they were dramatis personae on the world stage, cast and called to prove the capacity of mankind for self-government. If they succeeded, the forces of despotism would never again find their ambitions unobstructed.
Biblical freedom is not self-centered. It is others-focused. Christ sets us free not so we can do whatever we want, but so we can finally do what we were created for—loving God and serving others.
In a culture that defines freedom as individual rights, God’s Word reframes it as relational responsibility. The freest people are those who no longer live for themselves.
Practical advice: Look around. Who can you serve today? What can you sacrifice to uplift someone else? Use your freedom to bring life and healing to those in need.
So, stand firm. Don’t go back to chains. Live free—not for yourself, but for Christ and His Kingdom. Use your liberty to bless others, walk in holiness, and glorify God. That is true freedom—and you have it in Christ.
“Whosoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.” – Benjamin Franklin
“I have always said and always will say that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make us better citizens.” – Thomas Jefferson
“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.” – John Quincy Adams
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.” – Samuel Adams
“Because we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion … our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – Letter of President John Adams in 1798
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