Seems that some individuals who have posted previously have forgotten that without those brave men and women, who down through the ages, have risked and many given their lives so that WE CAN ATTEND the worship service of our choice — God was there guiding our troups and the officers who risked everything so we could have the freedom to worship as we see fit and as we chose. Freedom of religion has been a guiding force behind the tenets of this country from the beginning, and I think we should remember to thank God for giving us this land — we don’t have to agree with all that our leaders do, but we do need to remember and ask God to guide us all both in preserving our freedom and worshipping him so that we might Glorify him to the world.
Mary

How on Earth could the United States have come to be without the help of Almighty Providence? How could it have survived so long and still protect the freedoms that have survived, unless we see the Hand of God involved throughout?

To simply contrast the heroic selflessness of the men who met in Philadelphia (both times) with the base lust for worldly aggrandizement so much of our leadership has demonstrated since then should thrust home a realization that Jesus Himself breathed goodness into the founding of our nation and its Constitution.

So, while a church service looks to a heaven filled with justice and light, brief acknowledgements (at Memorial Day and Independence Day?) can remind us that we were never alone in the long history of this country – and I hope that we never are!

Christian? – by the grace of God and sacrfice of Jesus

American? – by the grace of God and sacrifice of many men and women!

I would not want to trade either but I do know which one comes first!

Good to hear from you.

God Bless

I know America is not a Christian nation but, I thank God I was born in America.

I thank God for the opportunity to have seen the world and know the difference between America and any other place on earth.

I thank God for the Second Amendment. I thank God he gave our Forefathers the good sense to write it. I pray we have the good sense to defend it and keep it.

May all Americans deny self and take up the cross of Christ.

May all Americans wave the flag.

May all Americans be willing to protect this land.

cb

let me explain what I mean…we’re (the various traditions which preach the one true Biblical Gospel) the true Catholics…they stole our name, or we gave it up…lol…but that is an argument for another day.

the Roman Catholic church is the largest of all apostate religions, they preach “another” Gospel and play on the Satan’s team. they are “Catholic” in name only.

Our church does not celebrate July 4th in the context of worship on the Lord’s Day, but we have no problem celebrating this July 4th with all our neighbors in the context of God placing us in a country that for the last 200+ years has a reputation for freedom. There is good and bad living in America, yet certainly one of the great advantages is the freedom afforded everyone to speak and to bear arms. And certainly that freedom allows us to share the gospel unimpeded and that is a great blessing and duty.

In my mind… July 4th and its implications remind me of a section of scripture and how that an alien righteousness changes the heart of man regardless of the soil to which he or she is born.

Hebrews 11:6-16 “And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. (7) By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.”

Noah was ridiculed by his nation, yet in faith is seen reverencing his God as an heir to an alien righteousness.

(8) “By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going. (9) By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise; (10) for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.”

Abraham, when called, left his country by faith, content to live as an alien being an heir to a greater promise. His faith was not consumed with any allegiance to soil or people, but to a city whose foundation was laid by God.

(11) “By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered Him faithful who had promised. (12) Therefore there was born even of one man, and him as good as dead at that, as many descendants AS THE STARS OF HEAVEN IN NUMBER, AND INNUMERABLE AS THE SAND WHICH IS BY THE SEASHORE. (13) All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. (14) For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. (15) And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. (16) But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.”

Even Sarah demonstrated the sovereign hand of Almighty God to look not to the country that was before, but to the country that followed as she realized just how strange this land really is…..both she and Abraham desire a better country.

May we have the faith of Abraham, Sarah, Enoch, Isaac, Jacob Moses, etc, etc. and at the same time begin to lose sight of these earthly countries, desiring as those that came before us a better country that God has prepared.

Have a big July 4th!

Blessings,
Chris