Family and Friends,
This day really is more than just Art Van's latest furniture sale or a barbecue or a camping trip with family. On this day 230 years ago, some very brave men signed their death warrants by signing the Declaration of Independence. They not only put their own lives at risk, they put the lives of their wives and children, as well as all their earthly fortune on the line - for they were visionary enough to realize that it was better to have death if liberty could not be obtained.
And they secured freedom not only for themselves but they also looked forward to a time when their posterity would fully realize the blessings of all the manifold freedoms we indulge ourselves in today.
But the fight continues even now. Let us remember those brave founders and revolutionaries who gave so much for us, but let us also remember that America's finest young men and women are still fighting and dying on battlefields around the world to maintain the inheritance we have been entrusted with.
May God continue to bless this great land - not with the cheap junk of malls and stores - but may He really bless us with what men and women in every generation must have to be considered truly blessed - His Spirit.
"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." 2 Corinthians 3:17 KJV
Below is some linkage to an excellent web publication, The Patriot Post, as well as a Wall Street Journal piece on the only minister to sign the Delcaration.
Grace and peace,
R.J.
The Forgotten Founder
John Witherspoon was the only minister to sign the Declaration of Independence
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?'...If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" -- Samuel Adams