This may be the single most important blog in this series for American readers in 2026. As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, we need to ask a question that reaches far deeper than politics: What kind of people built America—and what kind of worldview shaped them? To answer that question,
Building on the previous post, this reflection focuses on the practical implication for America’s 250th anniversary. The founders repeatedly emphasized that a free republic cannot survive without a virtuous and self-governing people. This was not generic moralism. It was rooted in a deeply biblical conviction: because every person is made
This blog highlights one of the most important truths for understanding America’s story—and our calling in this 250th anniversary year. One of the great myths of our age is that freedom can exist apart from a moral and spiritual foundation. Yet a people who believe that eventually surrender the very
Imagine with me for a moment Daniel in Babylon. He had made a name for himself. He was exalted as one of the king’s best advisors. He was perhaps a bit strange because of his religious devotion and the particular discipline of praying to his God three times a day.
We now shift gears and focus on how we, the Church, can become God’s instrument for the renewal of culture. Because dualism has become so prevalent in the Church, we often fail to recognize the profound ways the gospel has shaped our families, institutions, systems, communities, and nations throughout the
I hope, if you are an American, you had a great day celebrating the estalishment of our covenantal republic. This whole series is designed to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of America. The founders of America lived with what I call a proleptic vision. This was a vision
After the sobering diagnosis of our cultural moment, we want to now pivot to a hope that is not wishful thinking but theological reality. Many of us know and are deeply grateful for Christ, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world and more personally our
There is much talk about the “culture wars”. This is very real. Yet, the battles raging in our nation do not start with culture. They are a manifestation of warfare in the spiritual realm. For many of us who have Christian hearts but materialistic minds, this idea is offensive or
When we say, as we did in the last post, that we live in a culture of death, we cannot stay on the surface. We must pull back the curtain on the spiritual realities driving cultural conflict. When a society rejects the living God, the universe becomes “disenchanted” — stripped
For those old enough to remember, there was a time when being a Christian in America conferred social capital. Today, in many elite institutions and increasingly in everyday life, biblical conviction is viewed with suspicion or outright hostility. In the next portion of Occupy Till I Come, we examine the
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