With a country divided, the Republican risk and morality being redefined, it's time to gather

around the campfire, get back to basics, and spark the revival that this country so desperately

needs.

This is the American Campfire Revival with Cook Cameron.

We were talking about Samuel Adams the other day.

We've also talked about an English philosopher named John Locke.

And last night I actually attributed a quote to Sam Adams that belonged to Fisher Ames,

who was another founding father. What a great name. Who names their child, Fisher,

Ames? Well, actually, someone who taught him very well because he understood that God's ways

always lead to liberty. And he had amazing insights into what we're teaching our kids and

making sure that we understood that there is no

more essential textbook for our kids than the Word of God. In fact, it was used to teach kids

how to spell, taught them how to see the world, and understand the way that God made it so that

it would lead to maximum human flourishing.

Well, we're going to look a little bit more into this book, and we're going to talk about a guy named James Madison today. James Madison was known as the father of the Constitution.

So here's another founding father. This was a brilliant man who, from the time he was young, he devoted himself to studying history

because he understood that history is his story. And if we look back in the story, we get to know

who the characters are. And we get to know cause and effect consequences. And so if we see somebody

making a mistake or doing something good and it leads to a

particular consequence, we know for the future how to make better decisions. And he particularly

loved studying political history all the way back to the time of Aristotle. So we're talking way

back, Aristotle, Plato. These are the greats of ancient philosophy.

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