In 2019 a study determined that America was the most negative country in the world. For most of our history, we were known as one of the most positive countries ever. What has happened in just the last few decades to so radically change our nature? 

     As negativity is one of the great hindrances to progress and well-being, this portends a very dark future for our country if not turned around. To do this we must understand how it has happened to us, and how, as a nation we have become defined more for what...

         The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that all of nature trends toward disorder and chaos unless acted upon by an outside intelligent source. Civilization also trends toward chaos without being steered by intelligent leadership. As we have already covered, Scripture reveals that such leadership is the result of the favor of God for the nations that seek Him. A vacuum of such leadership is the result of a nation departing from Him, failing to continue to walk in His ways. 

         In Revelation 3:20, we see Jesus standing at the door of...

     Oysters are filters for the sea as each one filters about a gallon of water an hour. However, just a grain of sand that gets stuck in the oyster can become an irritant. The result is that the oyster will encase the irritant in a hardened substance that we know as a pearl—a treasure of great value. The same can be true of an irritant in a culture. What was an agitation can become a treasure of great value. 

     The Salem witch trials became such an irritant for the colonies. It was an enduring and...

     American history is remarkable because of the remarkable people who shaped it. Unlike most other national histories, almost all of those who helped build and shape the American nation were “commoners,” or from the common people, but they lived uncommon lives. One of the first of these was William Bradford, who may have been the person most responsible for setting the course America would take.

     William Bradford became a leader of the second English colony in North America at Plymouth Rock. He might be called the first to be a Founding Father of the American Republic....

     The American Republic grew into nationhood like no other nation in recorded history. The English colonies were given the freedom of religion and self-government in their charters. Other nations that attained any degree of these usually did so over centuries, or even millennia, of tedious and relentless struggle, but America was born with them. 

     As a result, the first generations of Americans grew up with freedoms greater than had been experienced anywhere else in the world. They breathed the air of liberty from the day they were born and were, therefore, quick to recognize and...