FROM D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES
THIS IS KENNEDY CLASSICS
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WELCOME TO KENNEDY CLASSICS
HELLO, I'M FRANK WRIGHT, PRESIDENT OF D. JAMES
KENNEDY MINISTRIES WHERE WE ARE STANDING FOR TRUTH
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THE SISTINE CHAPEL IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS
BUILDINGS IN ALL OF HISTORY.
LOCATED IN THE VATICAN, THE CHAPEL SERVES AS THE
MEETING PLACE FOR THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS WHEN
IT IS TIME TO ELECT A NEW POPE.
HOWEVER, THE SISTINE CHAPEL IS MOST FAMOUS FOR
THE ART WORK FOUND WITHIN IT.
WHILE THE ARTWORK WAS PAINTED BY A MYRIAD OF
RENOWNED ARTISTS AT THE TIME, THE MOST FAMOUS
PIECES OF ART ARE THE FRESCOES PAINTED BY
MICHELANGELO IN THE 1500'S.
THESE MASTERPIECES DEPICT MANY SCENES FROM THE
BIBLE, MOST FAMOUSLY PERHAPS THE SCENE OF "THE
CREATION OF ADAM".
DURING THE 1980S AND 90'S THE SISTINE CHAPEL
UNDERWENT A MAJOR RESTORATION OF THE ART
WORK.
THE PROCESS INVOLVED CLEANING AND REMOVING
CENTURIES OF DUST, GRIME, AND CANDLE SMOKE FROM THE
FRESCOES.
AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE RESTORATION, THE TRUE,
BRILLIANT COLORS OF THE FRESCOES WERE REVEALED.
WHAT ONCE SEEMED DULL AND MONOCHROMATIC BECAME SHARP
AND VIBRANT.
THE COLORS OF THE ART WORK NOW APPEAR FRESH AND
SPRING LIKE, JUST AS THE ARTIST ORIGINALLY
INTENDED.
SIMILARLY, AMERICA IS IN NEED OF A RESTORATION, A
RESTORATION OF OUR CHRISTIAN ROOTS.
IF WE CAN REMOVE ALL OF THE GRIME AND DIRT, WE
WILL SEE UNDERNEATH WHAT OUR FOUNDERS ORIGINALLY
INTENDED AMERICA TO BE.
HERE IS HOW DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY SEES THAT IN HIS
MESSAGE, "BUILDING A CHRISTIAN NATION."
OUR SCRIPTURE LESSON THIS MORNING IS TAKEN FROM THE
11TH PSALM, PSALM 11 BEGINNING WITH THE FIRST
VERSE MAY WE HEAR THE INSPIRED WORD OF THE
LIVING GOD.
AND MAY GOD SPEAK TO US THROUGH HIS HOLY WORD AND
MAY HIS NAME EVER BE PRAISED AMEN.
I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOU TODAY NOT ONLY ON THE
BUILDING OF A CHRISTIAN NATION, BUT ALSO THE
REBUILDING OF THE SAME.
FOR THERE IS NO DOUBT IN THE MIND OF ANYONE WHO HAS
STUDIED HISTORICALLY THE ISSUE, THAT OUR
FOREFATHERS BUILT A CHRISTIAN NATION, BUT WE
HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE LAST 50 YEARS,
PARTICULARLY WITH THOSE WHO HAVE WORKED
ASSIDUOUSLY TO TEAR IT DOWN- TO DESTROY THE
FOUNDATIONS, AND NOW THERE IS A RENEWED INTEREST AND
DESIRE ON THE PART OF MANY MILLIONS IN THIS COUNTRY
TO SEE IT REBUILT AGAIN.
IN FACT, I AM SURE THAT THERE ARE MANY THAT WOULD
NOT EVEN KNOW THAT IT EVER WAS A CHRISTIAN NATION.
I WAS INTERVIEWED RECENTLY BY ALLEN COLMES, WHOM YOU
MIGHT KNOW, A LIBERAL TALK SHOW HOST, ABOUT ONE OF
OUR NEW BOOKS, WHAT IF AMERICA WERE A CHRISTIAN
NATION AGAIN?
AND THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW, HE FOCUSED ON ONE SINGLE
WORD.
CAN YOU IMAGINE WHICH ONE IT WAS?
IT WAS THE WORD "AGAIN."
"HOW," HE SAID, "COULD AMERICA BECOME A CHRISTIAN
NATION AGAIN, WHEN AMERICA NEVER WAS A CHRISTIAN
NATION?"
AND HE'S A PRETTY INTELLIGENT FELLOW, AND I
AM SURE HE SPEAKS FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOR
WHOM, WHEN YOU SAY AMERICA WAS FOUNDED AS A CHRISTIAN
NATION, THEY LOOK AT YOU AS IF YOU JUST ARRIVED
FROM MARS, IN CASE YOU ARE A WOMAN- FROM VENUS.
(LAUGH)
AND YOU OBVIOUSLY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS
WONDERFUL "SECULAR" NATION THAT WE INHERITED.
WELL, LET'S LOOK AT THAT ONE ALSO.
SECULAR COMES FROM THE LATIN SAECULARIS, WHICH
MEANS A VIEW OF CIVIL SOCIETY OR EDUCATION
DEVOID OF THE RELIGIOUS ELEMENT.
WELL IS THAT WHAT THEY GAVE US?
WELL LET'S RUN THE CAMERA BACK AND SEE WHAT THE TAPE
LOOKS LIKE ABOUT THE VERY MOMENTS THIS COUNTRY
BEGAN.
GEORGE WASHINGTON HAD JUST TAKEN THE OATH OF OFFICE,
TO WHICH HE APPENDED HIS OWN WORDS, WHICH HAVE BEEN
REPEATED EVER SINCE, "SO HELP ME, GOD."
HE THEN BENT OVER AND KISSED THE BIBLE ON WHICH
HE HAD JUST TAKEN HIS OATH.
HE THEN, THIRDLY, LED THE ENTIRE CONGRESS, HOUSE AND
SENATE, TWO BLOCKS DOWN THE STREET TO A TWO- OR
THREE HOUR-LONG SERVICE OF WORSHIP IN HIS OWN
ANGLICAN CHURCH.
HE THEN PRESIDED OVER THE CONGRESS AS THEY CHOSE
CHAPLAINS FOR THE MILITARY, CHAPLAINS FOR
THE SENATE, CHAPLAIN FOR THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES.
AND ALL OF THAT AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE.
A CIVIL SOCIETY WITHOUT REFERENCE TO THE RELIGIOUS
ELEMENT?
SECULARISM HAS ALSO BEEN DESCRIBED AS A VIEW OF
LIFE WITH NO THOUGHT OF GOD OR OF A FUTURE LIFE,
SO THAT SECULARISM IS LIKE A SMOKED DOME PLACED OVER
THE CITY OF MAN, WHEREIN NO ONE CAN SEE UP TO GOD
AND NO ONE CAN SEE FORWARD BEYOND THE BLACK PIT OF
THE GRAVE.
THAT IS SECULARISM.
IT IS AN UTTERLY HOPELESS VIEW OF LIFE.
THEY ARE WITHOUT GOD AND WITHOUT HOPE IN THE WORLD.
BUT THANK GOD THAT IS NOT WHAT THE FOUNDERS OF THIS
COUNTRY BELIEVED.
LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING THAT I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT
MOST OF YOU DON'T KNOW.
IN 1776 THERE WAS NOT ANYWHERE ON THIS PLANET
A SECULAR NATION.
PRIOR TO 1776, THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE WHOLE
PLANET, THERE HAD NEVER BEEN SUCH A CREATURE AS
A SECULAR NATION.
IT HAD NEVER EXISTED.
THE FIRST ONE CAME ABOUT JUST A FEW YEARS AFTER OUR
REVOLUTION IN THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE.
OUR REVOLUTION WAS BASED UPON GOD; THEIRS WAS BASED
UPON HUMANISTIC ATHEISM, AND IN THEIR REVOLUTION IT
ENDED UP WITH BLOOD RUNNING IN THE STREETS.
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WERE GUILLOTINED
AND THE WHOLE THING WAS A GIGANTIC DISASTER.
THAT WAS A SECULAR NATION.
THEY TOOK A NUDE WOMAN AND PLACED HER ON THE ALTAR IN
NOTRE DAME AND WORSHIPED HER AS THE GOD OF WISDOM.
THEY TRIED TO GET RID OF THE SABBATH DAY AND PUT IN
A 10 DAY WEEK.
THAT WOULDN'T WORK.
THEY HAD TO ABANDON THE WHOLE THING, BECAUSE
FRANCE HAD DISSOLVED INTO CHAOS.
NO, THERE NEVER HAD BEEN AND THERE WAS NOT AT THE
TIME ANYWHERE A SECULAR NATION IN THE WORLD, AND
THE FOUNDERS OF OUR COUNTRY COULD NOT HAVE IMAGINED
ANYTHING EVEN VAGUELY CLOSE TO THAT.
IN FACT WHEN THEY DISCOVERED WHAT WAS
HAPPENING IN FRANCE A FEW YEARS LATER, THEY WERE
APPALLED.
IT WAS ABHORRENT TO THEM.
YOU COULD GO BACK TO THE VERY BEGINNING.
YOU COULD GO BACK TO THE PILGRIMS, WE COULD GO BACK
TO CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, WE COULD GO BACK EVEN
FARTHER THAN THAT: WE COULD GO BACK TO LEIF
ERICSON.
THAT IS 1,000 YEARS AGO.
MANY PEOPLE DON'T KNOW TOO MUCH ABOUT HIM.
HE WAS BORN IN ICELAND.
HIS FATHER WAS ERIC THE RED- A VERY FLAMBOYANT
GENTLEMAN WHO LIVED IN NORWAY UNTIL HE MURDERED A
MAN, AND THEN HE FLED FOR HIS LIFE TO ICELAND, WHERE
LEIF ERICSON WAS BORN.
WHEN LEIF ACHIEVED MANHOOD, HE WANTED TO
RETURN TO THE ANCESTRAL HOME, SO HE TOOK A TRIP TO
NORWAY, AND THERE HE RAN INTO CHRISTIANS AND HE WAS
CONVERTED TO CHRIST.
AFTER STAYING THERE FOR A LITTLE WHILE AND LEARNING
MORE ABOUT THE FAITH, WHAT HE WANTED MOST OF ALL WAS
TO TAKE THE GOSPEL BACK TO ICELAND AND BEYOND.
SO HE GOT A CLERGYMAN TO GO WITH HIM.
THEY WENT TO ICELAND; THEY PREACHED THE GOSPEL FOR
SOME TIME, AND THEN THE MOVED ON TO GREENLAND.
THEY PREACHED THE GOSPEL AGAIN, AND THEN THEY MOVED
ON TO THE NORTHEAST TIP OF NORTH AMERICA.
SOME SAY EVEN PART OF THE UNITED STATES.
THAT WAS THE FIRST CONTACT THAT THIS CONTINENT HAD
WITH EUROPEANS.
THEY CAME FOR THE PROCLAMATION OF THE
GOSPEL, AND THEN, IF WE GO AHEAD TO THE 1600S, MORE
THAN 500 YEARS LATER, WE FIND THE PILGRIMS SET SAIL
AND LANDED AT PLYMOUTH.
AND WHY DID THEY COME?
WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE IN THEIR COMING TO THESE
SHORES?
WELL, I REMEMBER A RATHER FAMOUS AMERICAN OF MANY
YEARS AGO, EARLY IN THIS CENTURY, I DIDN'T HEAR HIM
MYSELF YOU UNDERSTAND MY DADDY TOLD ME ABOUT HIM.
THE QUESTION WAS ASKED, "WHAT IS THE BUSINESS OF
AMERICA?"
I THINK THAT IS A PROVOCATIVE QUESTION.
I WOULD ASK YOU, "WHAT IS THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA?"
HERE IS A COMPLETELY SECULAR ANSWER: "THE
BUSINESS OF AMERICA," HE SAID, "IS BUSINESS."
NOW, I CERTAINLY WOULD NOT WANT TO SAY THAT BUSINESS
IS NOT OF GREAT IMPORTANCE, BECAUSE IT IS,
AND GOD COMMANDS US TO WORK TO EARN OUR LIVING,
TO PROVIDE FOR OURSELVES, OUR FAMILIES AND OTHERS AS
WE CAN, BUT THAT IS NOT THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA.
AMERICA WAS FOUNDED BY PEOPLE WHO LOVED GOD AND
TRUSTED IN THE DIVINE GRACE OF JESUS CHRIST AND
DESIRED MOST OF ALL TO MAKE HIM KNOWN TO OTHERS.
WE DON'T HAVE TO RELY ON SOMEBODY'S OPINION.
WE CAN HEAR IT RIGHT FROM THEMSELVES.
AS YOU MAY KNOW, WILLIAM BRADFORD WAS THE HISTORIAN
AND GOVERNOR OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION.
HE WROTE THE ONLY HISTORY OF THE TIME.
HE IS THE ONLY SOURCE.
AND HE WAS GOVERNOR FOR DECADES, AND HE SAID THAT
BEFORE THEY EVEN LEFT ENGLAND THEY WROTE THESE
WORDS ABOUT THEIR REASON FOR COMING.
WAS IT GOLD?
LET'S SEE.
THEY CAME HERE AND FOUNDED THIS COLONY WITH "A GREAT
HOPE AND INWARD ZEAL THEY HAD OF LAYING SOME GOOD
FOUNDATION, OR AT LEAST TO MAKE SOME WAY THEREUNTO,
FOR THE PROPAGATION AND ADVANCING OF THE GOSPEL OF
THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST IN THOSE REMOTE PARTS OF THE
WORLD; YEA, THOUGH THEY SHOULD BE BUT EVEN AS
STEPPING-STONES UNTO OTHERS FOR THE PERFORMANCE
OF SO GREAT A WORK."
AND THEY HAVE BEEN.
MORE MISSIONARIES HAVE GONE FORTH FROM AMERICA
THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
MORE MONEY HAS BEEN RAISED AND THEIR GREAT DESIRE HAS
BEEN FULFILLED.
AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE MINISTRIES OF THIS
CHURCH HAS TAKEN THE GOSPEL TO EVERY SINGLE
LAST NATION ON EARTH.
THAT IS WHY THEY CAME, BECAUSE OF AN INWARD ZEAL
AND A GREAT HOPE OF PROPAGATING THE FAR ENDS
OF THE EARTH WITH THE GOSPEL.
BUT THEN WHEN THE PILGRIMS ACTUALLY ARRIVED HERE, AS
YOU KNOW, BEFORE THEY SET FOOT ON THE LAND, THEY MET
IN THE CAPTAIN'S CABIN OF THE MAYFLOWER AND WROTE
WHAT HAS BEEN CALLED THE "BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF
AMERICA," THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT.
AND HOW DOES THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT BEGIN?
"SEEING THAT WE NEED TO SET UP SOME KIND OF A
SECULAR ORGANIZATION HERE TO RUN THIS THING,
WE'LL..."
NO. THAT IS NOT WHAT THEY SAID.
THEY SAID, "IN THE NAME OF GOD.
AMEN."
THAT'S HOW AMERICA BEGAN- CONTINUING WITH THESE WORDS:
GIVE THEM A HAND.
THANK YOU.
[APPLAUSE]
AGAIN THEY TELL US EXACTLY WHY THEY HAVE ARRIVED ON
THESE SHORES: "HAVING UNDERTAKEN FOR THE GLORY
OF GOD AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, A
VOYAGE TO PLANT THE FIRST COLONY IN THE NORTHERN
PARTS OF VIRGINIA."
HAVING UNDERTAKEN "FOR THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE
ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH."
THAT IS WHY THEY CAME, AND THAT IS WHAT THEY DID.
THEY ADVANCED THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, AND THIS
CONTINUED THROUGHOUT ALL OF THAT PERIOD.
AND IF WE GO FORWARD, WE CAN COME TO THE END OF THE
19TH CENTURY, WHEN THERE WAS A GREAT TRIAL BEFORE
THE SUPREME COURT.
IT IS CALLED THE TRINITY DECISION, AND IT WAS HELD
IN 1892- EXACTLY 400 YEARS AFTER COLUMBUS MADE HIS
GREAT VOYAGE.
AND THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, LOOKING
AT THE QUESTION OF WAS THIS OR WAS THIS NOT A
CHRISTIAN NATION.
THE SUPREME COURT SPENT 10 YEARS.
THIS IS UNHEARD OF.
TODAY THEY GIVE A LAWYER A HALF HOUR AND THE OTHER
LAWYER ANOTHER HALF HOUR.
THEY SPENT 10 YEARS EXAMINING EVERY SINGLE ONE
OF THOUSANDS OF DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE FOUNDING
OF THIS COUNTRY, AND FINALLY THEY REACHED A
UNANIMOUS DECISION, AND THEY SAID THIS: "THESE
REFERENCES AND A VOLUME OF UNOFFICIAL DECLARATIONS
ADD TO THE MASS OF ORGANIC UTTERANCE THAT THIS IS A
RELIGIOUS PEOPLE."
THIS IS "A CHRISTIAN NATION."
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES UNANIMOUSLY,
1892, THE TRINITY DECISION.
GEORGE WASHINGTON SAID THAT RELIGION AND MORALITY
ARE THE TWIN PILLARS OF HAPPINESS IN THIS WORLD,
AND THE MAN WHO LABORS TO UNDERMINE THOSE PILLARS
DOES NOT DESERVE THE TITLE OF PATRIOT.
YET HOW MANY ATHEISTS WE HAVE WORKING DILIGENTLY TO
UNDERMINE THE PILLAR OF RELIGION AND MORALITY THAT
WOULD GET RID OF GOD, THAT WOULD GET RID OF THE
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, THAT WOULD GET RID OF ANY OF
HIS MORAL RULES, AND YET ALSO CLAIM TO BE PATRIOTS.
THAT PERSON, SAID GEORGE WASHINGTON, DOES NOT
DESERVE THE TITLE OF PATRIOT.
SO THIS IS, INDEED, A CHRISTIAN NATION.
THESE AND HUNDREDS OF OTHER REFERENCES WOULD
POINT THAT OUT.
I READ THE CONSTITUTIONS OF ALL 50 OF OUR STATES.
I READ THE INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF ALL OF OUR
PRESIDENTS.
ALL OF THEM, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, REFERENCE GOD.
THIS IS NOT A SECULAR, GODLESS, ATHEISTIC STATE,
AS OUR YOUNG PEOPLE ARE BEING TAUGHT IN SCHOOL-
NOTHING LIKE THAT, IN SPITE OF THE CONTINUING
EFFORTS TO TURN IT INTO JUST THAT.
OUR FOUNDERS BUILT THIS GODLY NATION THAT WE HAVE
INHERITED, AND IN THE LIFETIME OF VIRTUALLY
EVERYONE HERE, WE HAVE SEEN IT BRICK BY BRICK
BEING TORN DOWN.
BUT IT CAN BE REBUILT.
IT WAS BUILT BY MEN.
IT WAS TORN DOWN BY MEN.
IT CAN BE REBUILT BY MEN AS WELL.
AND THANKFULLY, IN THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES THERE
HAS BEEN A REVIVAL OF INTEREST IN THE FOUNDING
OF THIS COUNTRY AND WHAT IT WAS INTENDED TO BE, AND
WHAT IT CAN BE AGAIN AND AS ONE PERSON PUT IT
RECENTLY, WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS NOT ONLY VOTE, BUT
WE NEED TO LEARN TO VOTE RIGHT.
BASICALLY, THERE IS ONLY ONE SUBJECT AND ONE NAME
UNDER WHATEVER YOU PUNCH WITH YOUR FINGER, AND THAT
IS IN THE VOTING BOOTH WITH YOU AND ON THE BALLOT
WITH YOU, ALWAYS IN EVERY CONSIDERATION, THERE IS GOD.
IF WE WOULD LEARN TO VOTE WITH THAT AWARENESS: "WHAT
WOULD GOD WANT ME TO DO?
HOW WOULD GOD WANT ME TO VOTE?"
IT WOULD MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD.
THIS NATION WOULD QUICKLY BE RESTORED TO GODLINESS
IF GOD WERE SEEN TO BE, AS WE BELIEVE HIM TO BE
EVERYWHERE- IN OUR HOMES, IN OUR SCHOOLS, IN OUR
WORK, IN OUR PLAY.
WE NEED TO SEE HIM IN THE VOTING BOOTH.
IT'S ALL ABOUT GOD.
THAT IS WHAT POLITICS ULTIMATELY IS.
THAT IS WHAT THESE PEOPLE BELIEVED IT WAS.
"IN THE NAME OF GOD."
"FOR THE GLORY OF GOD."
"FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HIS KINGDOM."
THAT IS WHY THEY CAME; THAT IS NOT WHY MOST
AMERICANS VOTE, AND THAT IS NOT HOW THEY VOTE.
BUT IF YOU WANT TO SEE THIS NATION TRANSFORMED,
YOU BEGIN TO SEE GOD IN THE VOTING BOOTH WITH YOU.
GOD WILL CHANGE THIS NATION.
(APPLAUSE)
HEAVENLY FATHER, THOU ART THE SOVEREIGN LORD OF THIS
WORLD AND OF THE UNIVERSE.
THIS IS OUR FATHER'S WORLD.
WE REJOICE IN THAT FACT.
AND GOD, HOW WE MUST HAVE GRIEVED THEE BY 10,000
FAULTS, TURNING AWAY FROM THEE AND TURNING TO THE
FOLLY AND THE FOOLISHNESS OF MEN, WHO HAVE CORRUPTED
OUR FAMILIES, WHO HAVE CORRUPTED OUR SCHOOLS, WHO
HAVE CORRUPTED OUR COURTS, WHO HAVE CORRUPTED OUR
GOVERNMENT, OUR MEDIA, OUR AMUSEMENTS, AND HOW THIS
HAS WOUNDED THEE.
LORD, HELP US TO REMEMBER IT'S ALL ABOUT GOD, AND
KNOWING THAT IF WE ADVANCE HIS CAUSE, HE WILL PROVIDE
ALL THINGS THAT ARE NECESSARY FOR US.
IN CHRIST'S HOLY NAME WE PRAY.
AMEN.
THE MOST IMPORTANT BUILDING BLOCK FOR A GODLY
NATION IS, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, A PERSONAL
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GOD WHO CREATED AND SUSTAINS
THIS WORLD.
EACH OF US MUST EXAMINE OUR OWN LIVES, OUR OWN
HEARTS, AND SEE WHERE WE STAND BEFORE AN ALL HOLY
GOD.
THE TRUTH IS, WE ARE ALL SINNERS.
WE FALL SHORT OF GOD'S STANDARD OF PERFECTION
EXCEPT JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD.
HE ALONE, IS PERFECT.
YET HE DIED ON A CROSS TO PAY FOR OUR SINS, YOURS
AND MINE, HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD, AND OFFERS TO
WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM THE GIFT OF EVERLASTING
LIFE.
IF YOU DON'T KNOW FOR CERTAIN THAT YOU HAVE THAT
GIFT, THEN I INVITE YOU TO PRAY THIS PRAYER WITH ME
RIGHT NOW: "LORD JESUS CHRIST, I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT
I AM A SINNER.
PLEASE FORGIVE ME.
COME INTO MY LIFE AS MY SAVIOR AND MY LORD.
I PLACE MY TRUST IN YOU FOR THE FREE GIFT OF
EVERLASTING LIFE.
IN YOUR NAME I PRAY, AMEN."
IF YOU JUST PRAYED THAT PRAYER, SINCERELY FROM
YOUR HEART, WE WOULD LIKE TO HELP YOU GET STARTED IN
YOUR NEW LIFE WITH CHRIST BY SENDING YOU BEGINNING
AGAIN.
IN THIS BOOK YOU'LL LEARN THE BASICS OF CHRISTIAN
LIVING, SUCH AS, HOW TO PRAY, HOW TO STUDY THE
BIBLE, AND MUCH MORE.
TO RECEIVE YOUR COPY, JUST WRITE TO OUR ADDRESS, OR
CALL OUR TOLL-FREE NUMBER AND BE SURE TO ASK FOR
BEGINNING AGAIN.
GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU DO.
AS DR. KENNEDY DISCUSSES, DESPITE WHAT MANY IN THE
MAINSTREAM MEDIA MIGHT SAY, AMERICA IS INDEED
A CHRISTIAN NATION.
OUR FOUNDERS BUILT THIS NATION FOR US, AND YET
WE'VE WITNESSED IT BEING TAKEN APART BRICK BY
BRICK.
WE HAVE STRAYED FROM OUR CHRISTIAN HERITAGE AND
DENIED THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CONSTITUTION.
BUT WHAT WOULD AMERICA LOOK LIKE IF SHE RETURNED
TO HER CONSTITUTIONAL ROOTS?
WE HAVE A GREAT NEW RESOURCE THAT SHOWS US.
IT'S IS THE BRAND NEW BOOK FROM VETERAN JOURNALIST
ROBERT KNIGHT CALLED, A STRONG CONSTITUTION: WHAT
WOULD AMERICA LOOK LIKE IF WE FOLLOWED THE LAW?
IN RECENT DECADES, THE CONSTITUTION HAS BEEN
TURNED ON ITS HEAD.
IT EXPRESSLY GUARANTEES US FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM
OF RELIGION, AND FREEDOM FROM GOVERNMENT INTRUSION.
AND YET, WE SEE CONSERVATIVE STUDENTS
BEING PUNISHED UNDER DRACONIAN SPEECH CODES ON
COLLEGE CAMPUSES, CHRISTIAN BAKERS AND
PHOTOGRAPHERS BEING HAULED INTO COURT FOR EXERCISING
THEIR CHRISTIAN CONSCIENCES AGAINST
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, AND THE IRS TARGETING CHRISTIAN
AND CONSERVATIVE GROUPS BECAUSE OF THEIR BELIEFS.
IT SIMPLY MUST STOP- OUR HARD-WON FREEDOMS ARE AT
STAKE.
IN THE BOOK A STRONG CONSTITUTION, ROBERT
KNIGHT SHOWS US HOW OUR CHIEF GOVERNING DOCUMENT
HAS BEEN TWISTED ALMOST BEYOND RECOGNITION, AND HE
PROVIDES A ROAD MAP FOR RETURNING TO OUR
CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS.
WE WILL SEND YOU THIS VITAL NEW BOOK AS OUR
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MESSAGE, THE BIBLE AND THE CONSTITUTION.
NOBODY WAS MORE PASSIONATE ABOUT PROCLAIMING
AMERICA'S CHRISTIAN HISTORY AND HOW IT GAVE
BIRTH TO OUR FORM OF GOVERNMENT THAN
DR. KENNEDY.
AND THIS CLASSIC MESSAGE WAS PERHAPS HIS CLEAREST,
MOST INFLUENTIAL MESSAGE ON THAT CRITICAL TOPIC.
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EQUIP A NEW GENERATION OF LEADERS WHO LOVE AND
UNDERSTAND THE CONSTITUTION, AND HAVE THE
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I'M FRANK WRIGHT.
THANKS FOR JOINING US FOR THIS EDITION OF KENNEDY
CLASSICS.
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