David Merrill

[Jeremy Boreing @JeremyDBoreing]

Happy 250th Birthday to a nation like no other.

America is exceptional because it is the exception — a place where a particular set of ideas, a particular set of values, and a particular set of customs, formulated by a particular set of men in a particular place at a particular time created a covenant nation.

That the covenant has extended to men with different beliefs and histories — first to Catholics and to Jews, Irish and German and Italian, freed slaves and others, so long as they would embrace the ideas and values and customs and swear fealty to the same in the form of our Constitution — has not been a weakness but a strength, as has been borne out by the incredible rise of the new nation to heights previously unknown in human history.

The American Experiment, the “experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people,” as George Washington called it, is always just that. It’s never fully proven. It is a promise made by the republic to us and by us to the republic and to each other.

It is a republic, if we can keep it. A republic conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

The promise is ours to keep or to discard at our great peril.

The promise has been abused, both by the state and by ourselves and our neighbors.

It has been strained and tested.

It is being strained and tested now.

The ideas and values and customs are often attacked or co-opted by novel philosophies, or overwhelmed by uncontrolled and unassimilated migration, or hollowed out by our lack of faithfulness to them and to the Creator who is their author.

The covenant isn’t fragile. It has endured in the face of many faithless acts over two and a half centuries.

But nor is it, like the New Covenant of our Salvation, secured by the blood of Christ.

No. It is secured only by our own blood — and some incalculable measure of God’s grace.

It is ours only so long as we fight for it —against all enemies foreign and domestic — even the chief domestic enemy, our own faithlessness and fear and anger and despair.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. The American experiment should not be abandoned simply because it is showing wear. So beautiful, if a bit bruised, a reed we should not break.

To do so would be to forsake the blood of our fathers, and to flaunt the greatest blessing of God to man in almost half a millennium.

Today, let us renew the covenant. Let us carry on the great experiment, and let us embrace the exception so that it may remain exceptional.

Let us live out the great creed handed to us by those particular men and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.

God bless America and help us to keep her.

[David Merrill @adavidmerrill]

@Manhattva @SawyerMerritt 💯

[David Merrill @adavidmerrill]

@CerebralCereal0 Another thought. I might read it less connected to actual sexuality or fornication, but more metaphorically. The Lord could be referencing to the world’s abandonment of God and finding its own Gods. The “world” has fornicated against God by putting other Gods before Him.

[David Merrill @adavidmerrill]

@charliekirk11 What a gift it is to have a press secretary who is competent, informed, and well spoken. I am so grateful not have heard the phrase “let me be clear” or “I’ll circle back”… it’s a new day.

[David Merrill @adavidmerrill]

@BlackBlessedLDS I agree with you all. She is right, but i think for a different reason. God commands a man to leave his parents and cleave unto his wife. This is a statement of covenant. Marriage, whether sealing in a temple or in civil marriage is covenantal - a moral, godly obligation to her.

[David Merrill @adavidmerrill]

@mikemckellutah This oversight made it appear as though it was a stake-sponsored event. It remained this way until church authorities reached out after the event and the publication of this article.”

[David Merrill @adavidmerrill]

@mikemckellutah Update on the article: “UPDATE 7/2/2024: Craig Whiting contacted ACJ to clarify that he, in fact, was one of the organizers of the GiveSendGo event for the Ballards, not the Eagle Mountain Cedar Stake.

[David Merrill @adavidmerrill]

@mikemckellutah According to Craig, the individual who created the event on EventBrite had previously organized events for the Eagle Mountain Cedar Pass Stake and used the same account….

[David Merrill @adavidmerrill]

@mikemckellutah Thanks for sharing this Mike.

[Mike McKell @mikemckellutah]

If you are looking for ways to support Sergeant Bill Hooser’s family, this is gofundme page.

https://t.co/SaOr7tTpVA

[David Merrill @adavidmerrill]

@lds_spence Just a timely post for me. We were just released today ourselves. It was the greatest experience and call of my life. To spend two days with these two great and most loving men as the went through this process, was special, powerful…sacred.

[David Merrill @adavidmerrill]

@WaxingCelestial This is just fantastic! Congratulations to you. It’s amazing how the Savior can change us in every way. What an example!

[David Merrill @adavidmerrill]

Yes, he is Jesus of Nazareth, carpenter. But for me, one who joyfully and with pride bear His mark, he is the "Son of the Highest, the "King of Kings, Lord of Lords"…and my savior.

[David Merrill @adavidmerrill]

"And now, behold, my beloved brethren, this is the way; and there is none other way nor name given under heaven whereby man can be saved in the kingdom of God."

[David Merrill @adavidmerrill]

He is my "Redeemer", he is the "Son of the Living God", he is the "only begotten of the Father", He is "wonderful, counselor, the mighty God"…my "everlasting Father". He is my "righteous judge".