HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA

Today is Independence Day, the day that we remember the start of this great nation. It is amazing over time how we forget about how and why America was formed.
Most Americans really do not know much about the men who pledged their lives for the freedom that we have in America.

There were 56 men who signed their names and let me share how many of them were followers of Jesus Christ.

John Witherspoon was a minister and was the author of several books of sermons, and also was the editor of America's first family Bible in 1791.

Charles Carrol, wrote out his declaration of faith when he was 89 years of age. He wrote - "On the mercy of my Redeemer I rely for my salvation, and on His merits; not on the works I have done in obedience to His precepts."

Francis Hopkinson was a church music director and edited on of the first hymnals printed in America in 1767. He also put all 150 of the Psalms to music.

Roger Sherman wrote a personal creed that was adopted by his church. "I believe that there is only one living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, the same in substance, equal in power and glory. That the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are a revelation from God, and a complete rule to direct us how we may now glorify Him."

There are many others that we also followers of Christ. They were men who served God in their generation, and I pray for Godly leaders for our nation in this generation as well.

Let us pray for America that God will raise up Godly leaders and people!