{"id":3691,"date":"2025-06-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2025-07-14T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:57:43","slug":"celebrating-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2025\/06\/celebrating-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week Americans will celebrate our independence on July 4. While we are independent from tyranny, we must remain dependent on the Trinity \u2013 God the Father, Son and <a><\/a>Holy Spirit. For my non-American readers, while we have no desire to wrap the Gospel in red, white, and blue, we do invite you to celebrate with us. Here are a few quotes to assist in the celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 \u201cIt cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here.\u201d -Patrick Henry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 \u201cGod bless America, land that I love Stand beside her and guide her Through the night with a light from above From the mountains to the prairies To the oceans white with foam God bless America, my home sweet home.\u201d Irving Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 \u201cThe essence of America, that which really unites us, is not ethnicity or nationality or religion. It is an idea, and what an idea it is \u2014 that you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.\u201d \u2014 Condoleezza Rice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 &#8220;The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.&#8221; Billy Graham<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 \u2018If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.\u2019 \u2013 Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 \u201cAmerica! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!\u201d Katharine Lee Bates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 \u201cBlessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.\u201d Psalm 33:12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Americans will celebrate our independence on July 4. While we are independent from tyranny, we must remain dependent on the Trinity \u2013 God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. For my non-American readers, while we have no desire to wrap the Gospel in red, white, and blue, we do invite you to celebrate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3692,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions\/3692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}