I'm going to be. I'm Daniel, and I'm the pastor of Restoration Church in Reston, Virginia, and this is my campfire story.

Praise the Lord. Would you join me in prayer? God remind us again and again and again that we are made for more.

We're made for more than what often we hear in our own hearts, what we hear through the voices

of so many around us.

I've been a pastor for 23 years now.

When I first stepped into the pastoral vocation, I thought my primary role was going to be

preparing for worship, preaching a message, preparing Bible studies.

I think now doing church ministry as a pastor is very different.

I've had to wrestle with that question of where is the connection between what I say,

I believe,

and how that plays out into my everyday life.

Reston, Virginia is very close to Washington, D.C., right near the Beltway.

And in Restoration Church, the congregation itself, there is a good number of people who work

for the federal government.

And the things that happen in Washington, we sense it, we feel it.

There's always still a significant population of people that are across the diverse spectrum of

political opinions and beliefs.

The week began with President Trump marking 100 days in office and closed with his calling for an end to federal funds for public media.

President Trump's federal control over law enforcement in Washington, D.C. is ramping up.

It seems as though this is the first die being cast in the 2026 midterms.

Republicans say they're going to try and run on at least aspects of the one big,

beautiful bill. Democrats say they're going to be running against it. When there are different

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