(FOUNDERS’ BIBLE p.939/DAVID BARTON)

Letters of John Quincy Adams to His Son

“John Quincy Adams named his son after his mentor, George Washington. In a letter to his son, Adams wrote, ‘I have myself for many years made it a practice to read the Bible once a year . . . with the intention and desire that it may contribute to my advance in wisdom and virtue.’

. . .

“‘My custom is to read 4-5 chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. It employs about an hour of my time and it seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day.'”

“As filled with admiration as I am for David’s victory

in the valley of Elah,

I am even more filled with curiosity about David’s confidence

in entering the valley in the first place.”

Andy McQuitty

The Way To Brave p. 71

Moody 2018

Covid

Terrorism

Covid Positive Illegal Immigrants,

as well as drug cartels, criminals and terrorists pouring into our country. Economy is unstable.

Antifa

BLM

But it seems God is turning me toward worship and gratitude

as a way to express my trust in Him.

Lonnie

When fear comes, let us say, “There is no room in the inn.” Lonnie/8-20-21

When fear knocks at the doors of our mind and heart, help us lecture it with faith and truth. Lonnie /8-20-21

“Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in the multitude of their chariots and in the great strength of their housemen, BUT DO NOT LOOK TO THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, OR SEEK HELP FROM THE LORD.” Isaiah 31:1 NIV

“Not getting far in Scripture reading.

That’s okay, too.

It’s not about distance or accomplishment.

It’s about God and I.

Lonnie West/Journal August 15, 2021

“In the years following World War II, General Omar Bradley warned America, ‘We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount . . . The world has achieved brilliance without conscience.’

Though we had helped to win a great military and moral victory in Europe, we were becoming a world of ‘nuclear giants and ethical infants’ (Bartlett’s Quotations).”

Red Sky in the Morning; p. 105

New Life Publications 1998

“If you don’t

sacrifice for what

you want,

what you want

becomes the

sacrifice.”

Hobby Lobby plaque

“I sought for the key to the greatness and genius of America in her harbors . . . fertile fields . . . vast world commerce . . . her public school system. I sought for it in her democratic Congress and in her matchless Constitution.

NOT UNTIL I WENT INTO THE CHURCHES OF AMERICA AND HEARD HER PULPITS FLAME WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS

did I understand the secret of her genius and power.”

Alexis de Tocqueville (as quoted in Red Sky in the Morning p.93)

New Life Publications 1998

emphasis mine

“People are realizing that the Founding Fathers were not angels. They were flawed; some were slave owners . . .

When the Founding Fathers were writing the Constitution, they were already talking about how to get rid of the stain known as slavery . . .

People forget that the settlers were coming from an area where slavery existed.

. . . America proved that it was able to turn things around and in the right direction.

Graham Allen

Dear America p. 230

Center Street 2021

“Ask a hundred people on the street of any city in America if they know who George Floyd was; then ask who David Dorn was . . . Both men were black, and Dorn is every bit as dead as Floyd is, even though Dorn was neither high on drugs nor handcuffed while trying to resist arrest when he died. If Black Lives Matter said or did anything to honor Dorn after his death, I didn’t hear about it.”

Graham Allen

Dear America p. 134

Center Street 2021

I am not particularly a Graham Allen fan; I could do with less tone and attitude. But I agree with this observation. I suggest you look into the story of David Dorn.