Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!
The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.
LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.
250 years. One Nation. One Navy. 🇺🇸⚓
Today we celebrate America's independence and 250 years of the U.S. Navy defending the freedoms declared on July 4, 1776. Happy Independence Day! @navy_reserve@FleetWeekNYC#America250#INR250#Navy250
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Happy Fourth of July! 🇺🇸
Today I'm thankful for the freedoms we enjoy and the hope we have in Jesus. As we celebrate with family, friends, and fireworks, let's not forget one of the greatest things we can do for our country: pray.
Pray for our leaders. Pray for our communities. Pray for the next generation. Pray that hearts across America would turn to Jesus. Don't stop praying for America. God is still hearing. God is still moving. "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord." — Psalms 33:12
You know what shook me when I was Muslim?
The story of Hosea. God tells a prophet to marry a woman He knows will betray him.
She does. She runs to other men. She ends up enslaved, sold, used up, worthless to the world.
And God tells Hosea to go BUY HER BACK.
To pay money for his own wife who cheated on him, and love her again. Hosea 3.
I thought it was the most humiliating command in the Bible. Why would any man do that?
Then I realized I was the wife.
I gave my heart to everything but God. I chased other masters. I sold myself cheap. I made myself worthless.
And God looked at me, the betrayer, and didn’t say “you’re not worth it.”
He said, “Name the price. I’m buying her back.”
That’s the Gospel. God doesn’t wait for the unfaithful to come crawling back clean.
He pays to redeem them while they’re still dirty.
Islam told me to make myself worthy of God.
Hosea showed me a God who pays to redeem the unworthy.
The cross was Him naming the price.
Praise the Lord.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.