Like many of you, I celebrated Memorial Day yesterday with food, family, and a day of rest. This year my celebration came with renewed sobriety and gratitude for our fallen soldiers, especially after working on the email you’re reading today.
When we remember the events leading up to the American Revolution, we often focus on well-deserving men and their most honorable moments. But in celebration of Mother’s Day, I want to pay tribute to the wives and mothers whose lives were threatened, derailed, and in some cases, devastated to secure freedom for their families.
Today we find ourselves fending off chaos and wickedness that would have been incomprehensible to us a generation ago. Even just 10 years ago, I could not have imagined a world in which Americans would so brazenly ignore the rule of law; welcome sexualized books and curriculum into schools; and counsel young people, en masse, to surgically change their gender.
While Artificial Intelligence can be extremely helpful, it also can be dehumanizing and even a little scary. God created man “in his own image” and gave us dominion over all creation, but these tools are developed and used by fallen human beings.
Pastor Jonas Clark watched his friends and parishioners die at the hands of British soldiers in the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775. The night before, Pastor Clark was meeting in his home with Samuel Adams and John Hancock when they received warning of British advancement by way of Paul Revere and others. When the founders asked Pastor Clark if they thought the men of Lexington would fight, he reportedly answered, “I have trained them for this very hour!”
I remember my shock in 2017 when someone intentionally drove into the Ten Commandments monument in front of the Arkansas state capitol, destroying it the day after it was installed.
Every year I look forward to Easter weekend, wanting to worship our risen Savior with all my heart. I love the joyous musical celebration of our Lord’s resurrection—“up from the grave he arose!”
We find it hard to imagine a time when Americans were more divided than what we experience today.
When we seek man’s perspective, we’re looking for clarity, peace, and comfort, but all too often, the cacophony of voices and images delivers the opposite: confusion, fear, and outrage. How much better to first seek God’s perspective?
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