This sermon was first delivered on July 3rd, 2022. The text being interpreted is Isaiah 66:10-14 I once had an American History book from the late 1850s. I’m not sure where it is now… I moved a lot in the last ten years and somewhere along the way I’ve misplaced it… but for a student of history, it was a fascinating book… When a nation is less than 100 years old, any comprehensive history is going to be a lot more granular than when it is 250 years old, all due respect to our British friends with thousands of years to chronicle. I learned about highly influential people in the early history of this nation who I had never learned about, even in “advanced” US history classes. But probably the most fascinating part of this text was the closing chapter, where the authors wrote about the present state of the nation, on the cusp of the Civil War. I’ll never forget the first time I read it. These are people who knew well from studying the trajectories of past nations what th...
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