John Adams was born during the first full year after the Great Awakening (the greatest revival America has ever seen) began.  When one studies what family life was like during those years of revival, it’s no wonder Adams was such a Godly statesman.

He became a lawyer and one of the greatest statesman for liberty during America’s Founding Era.  He would marry, at age twenty-nine, Abigail Smith, the daughter of a minister.  Their relationship was one of the greatest examples of Biblical marriage in our history.  Though separated many years because of his service to our country overseas, their letters preserve for us one of the most tender and affectionate examples of the marriage covenant between a husband and a wife, that is on record today.

John Adams was one of five men who served on the committee of the 2nd Continental Congress which wrote our Declaration of Independence.  The year before, he had written for that Congress the document to be sent to the King of England, entitled, Declaration and Necessity of Taking Up Arms.  This was in answer to the attack on us by the British at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775.  In it he stated, Continue reading →

Samuel Adams, though ignored today, was know as the Father of the American Revolution because of his Biblical thinking about civil law, and how to re-establish it when a tyrant has taken that law from a people and established his own will as law.

He was born in Boston in 1722 and grew up there, where the merchants said of him that he was so punctual in attendance at school, they could set their clocks by him.

As an adult he failed in business because his entire focus was on law and particularly what the American colonies should do to correct the dictatorship being imposed on them by King George III.  His leadership moved Boston to begin the network known as The Committees of Correspondence.  Continue reading →

Fifty-six chosen men met in Philadelphia, summer 1776, to write a Declaration of Independence to be sent to the King of England.  Young Thomas Jefferson, only thirty-three, would be chosen to write the Declaration.  Even though the committee chosen by the 2nd Continental Congress to write it was also made up of such leaders as John Adams, Ben Franklin, and Roger Sherman, those men chose Jefferson because of his gift for expression and his knowledge, though so young, of law (as rooted in the Bible).

It was a difficult time for Jefferson:  He and his wife had lost a child less than a year before; Continue reading →

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