Our precious daughter, Faith Elizabeth, has released her first original song.
It's a healing and an encouraging message from God based on God's response to Adam and Eve in Genesis 3.
https://t.co/afz14pks2L
Just finished Revolution by @ericmetaxas
Metaxas has written a sweeping 600-page narrative to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary. The author employs his extraordinary storytelling gift to recount the improbable birth of the United States, from its initial ideological seeds to the early resistance, struggles, and profound sacrifices for the “Sacred Cause” of liberty. Metaxas shares the stories of the heroism of Washington, Adams, Knox, Hale, and others; the brutal winters; the betrayals; the improbable victories; and the march to Yorktown. He does it with wit and insight.
The book emphasizes divine providence, the founders' character, their sacrifice, and their revolutionary idea that a people didn’t need a monarchy but could govern themselves based on moral and religious foundations.
Revolution brings you into the epic of American liberty. As a reader, you encounter flesh-and-blood figures whose courage and convictions made self-government conceivable. The emphasis on the “Sacred Cause” and the necessity of moral character in sustaining freedom offer a timely counter to cynical or purely pragmatic, secular views of history. He draws a stark contrast between the immoral, unprincipled society of the British elites and the moral and religious moorings that guided the colonial leaders.
“Revolution” stays in the middle lane, avoiding the gutters of secular, deist founding narratives and, on the other side, the erroneous idea that American founders established a theocracy. Instead, Metaxas highlights faith’s role in the founding and the golden-triangle interplay of freedom, virtue, and faith. He touches on how, despite the founders’ high ideals, America could allow the realities of slavery and other national sins.
On its 250th anniversary, Revolution restores the reality of the moral dignity and the hand of God’s providence in the founding of America. Despite 600 pages, you wanted Metaxas to share an even more comprehensive account. The book was hard to put down. I highly recommend this informative, inspiring, and enjoyable book.
I was excited to learn our friend and former worship pastor, Andy Frank, is kicking off worship for Rededication 250. Our friend and church member, Lou Engle, will lead prayer at the rededication.
Radiant Church North will be streaming the event live following our Sunday AM worship service.
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Colorado cannot enforce its so-called "conversion therapy" ban regarding conversations between therapists and minors.
It was an 8-1 ruling. Predictably, Ketanji Brown Jackson (who can't define what a woman is) ruled against the Christian counselor.
https://t.co/v8yQ6A09RR