Digging in Deeper: Reflections on Freedom

About a dozen years ago, author and speaker, Os Guinness, wrote book entitled A Free People’s Suicide. Guinness is British by birth, but is a careful student and passionate fan of American life and culture. He is also a committed Christian whose thinking on matters of Christian worldview and apologetics are worth engaging for those interested in learning and growing in their faith and its application to the broader culture. 

In any event, the book is a kind of love letter to the United States. The freedom we have available to us in our nation is unlike anything that exists anywhere else in the world. No other nation has a constitution that is quite like ours. There’s a reason that our Constitution has been in place and operational longer than any other national constitution in the world. Other nations have copied what we have, usually badly, but no one has ever proposed something that gave people a greater experience of ordered liberty than what we have here. 

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Live like You’re Free

This week we celebrate the Fourth of July, the founding of our great nation. The United States of America, in spite of its flaws and struggles, is nonetheless still the greatest, freest nation in the world. If we are going to be a free people, though, we have to learn to live like it. This week, as we celebrated, we took a look at some words from the apostle Paul encouraging us to live like free people as followers of Jesus. This lesson is profoundly important not just for our relationship with Jesus, but for our nation as well. Listen in as we unpack these important ideas together.

Live like You’re Free

Our freedom is under attack. How’s that for the start of a sermon? Do you feel like you’re at a political really of some sort yet? I’d better explain what I mean, or I’ll have you heading for the exits before I even get to my first point! Let me try that again: Our freedom is under attack. Sound any different that time? No? Well, let’s talk about it anyway.

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