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The WallBuilders Show

Faith and Freedom: The Hidden Stories Behind America's Independence

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Education, Family, Religion & Spirituality, Church, Christianity, Wallbuilders.show, America, Conservative, News, Christian, Wallbuilders Show, Politics, Constitutional, Biblical, Government, History

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Freedom isn't free—it comes with a price tag few of us fully comprehend. Behind the fireworks and barbecues of Independence Day lies a profound story of sacrifice that has been systematically erased from our national consciousness. Walking the hallowed grounds of Independence Hall, historians David and Tim Barton uncover the extraordinary personal costs paid by the 56 signers of the Declaration. These weren't merely wealthy men putting their names on parchment—they were individuals who truly...

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0:00.0

Let the torch of freedom burn.

0:07.0

Welcome to the intersection of faith in the culture. This is Walbillers Live, where we're always talking about today's hottest topics on policy, faith, and the culture.

0:18.0

But we always look at those topics from a biblical, historical,

0:21.7

and constitutional perspective. And this week, we're going to do that in a very special way.

0:26.1

For the next three days, we're going to be bringing you a very special program about Independence Day

0:30.4

with David and Tim Barton, a TVN special that you can actually watch online as well.

0:34.9

But we're going to bring that to our listeners here at Walboulders Live because it has such great content to remind us how we got our independence,

0:41.4

what that really means, what does it mean to be free, and how do we preserve that freedom for future

0:45.9

generations? We're going to dive right into that programming right now. Now, before we go there,

0:49.8

though, I want to encourage you to visit our website today at wallbuilderslive.com. It's an opportunity for you to see where we're on all over the country.

0:57.1

You can pick out the station closest to you to listen, or you can go to the archives and listen to some of the past programs from the past few months.

1:03.3

And then most importantly, if you like this programming and you want to see more of it,

1:06.6

and you want to get it in the hands of more citizens to equip and inspire them to preserve liberty.

1:11.5

Then go to wallbholderslive.com today.

1:13.6

Click on that donate button, make your contribution.

1:16.0

What a great way to celebrate our independence by teaming up with us, by partnering with us, to preserve that independence, to preserve that freedom.

1:24.4

You can do that with the donation today.

1:25.7

Don't forget the founders gave their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. They had to financially invest in freedom. And today we do that by

1:32.7

engaging in this process and by inspiring and equipping people to be good citizens, to know how to vote,

1:38.8

to know what freedom is, to be able to measure candidates according to those freedom principles,

1:46.0

and then to engage in good government. That's what we do here at Walbilders Live is we educate people on how to do that

1:49.9

and you can be part of the solution. We're going to be diving into that TVN special on Independence Day

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