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The WallBuilders Show

Fireworks, Faith, and Founding Fathers: The True Spirit of July 4th

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

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🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

What if the Fourth of July was actually meant to be celebrated as a religious holiday? That's exactly how the founding fathers envisioned it. On this special Independence Day episode we unpack the profound Christian foundations of American freedom. They reveal how John Adams, writing to his wife Abigail on July 2nd (the actual day independence was declared), envisioned future celebrations with "solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty." Sixty-one years later, John Quincy Adams would explain t...

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0:00.0

You found your way to the intersection of faith and culture. Thanks for joining us today

0:10.1

on The Wall Builders Show, where we take on the hot topics of the day. From a biblical, historical,

0:14.6

and constitutional perspective, Rick Green here with David and Tim Barton. It's Friday, so it's good news

0:19.7

Friday. And here's the best news.

0:21.4

Hey, we're a free and independent nation. Yes, in fact, it was a few years ago. Some guy wrote a

0:25.7

document that said something about declaring our independence. And today we celebrate it.

0:31.4

Going to be doing some fireworks at the Patriot Academy campus. David, Tim, where are y'all

0:34.6

celebrating today? What's your July 4th Independence Day celebration going to be?

0:39.4

I am up in Arkansas with some of our friends up at Brookhill Ranch.

0:44.3

So I get to hang out.

0:45.2

I've got to bring my wife and my girls up with us.

0:49.1

And so we're going to be out in the very warm temperatures in Arkansas. but I know people in Arkansas know how to blow

0:57.6

things up. So I am betting you're going to have some good fireworks tonight. Yes, at least,

1:02.0

at least I knew I was going to be with like-minded people who believe the proper way to celebrate is

1:07.1

with good food, with guns and fireworks. and so we will be doing all of those things

1:11.6

at some point today and i'm actually in missouri speaking at church this weekend this is fourth

1:17.5

of july weekend and so at sterling heights which i guess is as part of st louis grace church there

1:22.3

and so looking forward to that it'll be a lot of fun have a lot of the original documents from signers of the

1:28.2

declaration that will go through and see that as part of church service plus covering the strong

1:32.9

faith of these guys and the faith that they infused into that founding document by the way

1:38.0

because not only do you have the in 161 words there at the beginning, the six principles in the declaration, five of

1:46.1

which are God-centered. You also have the fact that in that period of time, they call the nation

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