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I was born on July 4, 1776 and the Declaration of Independence is my birth certificate.

The blood of the world runs in my veins because I offered freedom to the oppressed.  I am many things and many people.

I am the United States of America!

I am 315 million living souls and the memory of millions who have lived and died for me.

I am Nathan Hale, Paul Revere, Washington, Daniel Webster and Patrick Henry
I am John Paul Jones, The Green Mountain Boys and Davy Crockett. 

I am Harriet Tubman who led slaves underground to freedom in the north.  I am Clara Barton treating the wounded on the battlefields.  I am Susan B. Anthony fighting for the woman’s right to vote.

I am Independence Hall, the Monitor and the Merrimac and Gettysburg, PA.
I am Lee, Grant and Stonewall Jackson.

I remember the Alamo, the Maine, Pearl Harbor and September 11, 2001.
When freedom called, I have answered and stayed until it was over.

I am the Brooklyn Bridge, the wheat fields of Kansas and the granite hills of Vermont.

I am the Lady in the harbor who beckons, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free!”

I am the coal fields of the Virginias and Pennsylvania, the purple mountains of the Rockies and the fertile lands of the West. I am the Golden Gate, the Grand Canyon and the sky scrapers of New York City.

Ohhhh I am big, I sprawl from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Alaska to Hawaii; four million square miles throbbing with industry, farms and city life.

I am George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglas, Jonas Salk, Albert Einstein and Dr. Martin Luther King. I am more than 350,000 schools and colleges and 600,000 churches where my people worship God as they think best.

I am the roar of a crowd in a stadium and the voice of a choir in a cathedral.

I am Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.  I am Rockefeller, Morgan, Carnegie, Ford, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

Yes, I am the nation and these are the things that I am.
I was conceived in freedom, and God willing, in freedom I will spend the rest of my days.
May I possess always the integrity, the courage and the strength
to keep myself unshackled, to remain a citadel of freedom
and a beacon of hope for the world.
I AM THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA!    -- Author Unknown (revised by S. Nash)

Pastor's Blog

Our forefathers knew what it was like to become a sacrifice for the sake of liberty!

They left their mother country to give birth to a new nation, but Jesus left His homeland (heaven) to give birth to a great nation of people! 

The signers of the Declaration of Independence literally gave their all for this nation. When they signed that document, they sign their own death warrant!

·       Five were captured by the British and tortured before they died.

·       Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.

·       Two lost their sons in the war.

·       Nine either died from war wounds or other hardships because of the war.

But, standing firm and courageous, these men pledged:

“For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the Divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor!”

They declared that “we are endowed with certain inalienable rights, Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!” 
Jesus signed His death warrant with His own blood, “that we might have life and have it more abundantly!”

·       This is the cost for freedom – the Cross!

·       Death is usually the cost for freedom in a fallen world.

·       If it weren’t for the Cross, we would be enslaved by sin today, “But God so loved…”

·       If it wasn’t for the many who gave their lives in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, WW I & II, Korea, Viet Nam and the present War on Terror, we would be enslaved by tyrannical and totalitarian regimes!

Our Flag proudly flies as a symbol of our nation’s freedom:

·       Red – sacrifice

·       White – Pure intent

·       Blue – valor and courage