If your town is like our town, we had a big celebration this weekend (in spite of the weather!). Everyone had a good time, but the weekend forced us as Christians to ask ourselves, what do we make our nation's 250th?
Truthfully, Christians, like many others in our country, come to the 250th anniversary of our nation with many emotions - pride, frustration and hunger for togetherness. Pastor Rob works with the hymn "America the Beautiful" to lead us in a prayer for our country, a prayer that includes praise, confession and supplication (request). This includes some reflections at the end on how we can both want a society in which people follow the teachings of Jesus, but we can also be skeptical of political projects that employ Christian language.
Note: The audio file is a bit longer because it includes the interwoven singing of "America."
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