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Punksitone Phil will let us know this morning, whether we will have an early spring or six

more weeks of winter.

Phil or his antecedents have been doing this since 1887.

Numerous other states have their own groundhog to use for such predictions.

Hopefully theirs are a bit more accurate than Phil.

He has been correct in his forecasts about 50% of the time in the last 10 years. I am grateful

to live in a country with such arcane traditions as Groundhog Day. In fact, every time I travel

abroad, I am grateful for the privilege of living in America.

But such gratitude can become idolatry.

Last Sunday, an article was published in my local newspaper,

The Dallas Morning News, that every evangelical should read.

Written by Dr. Ed Stetzer and Andrew MacDonald,

leaders at the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center, the article is titled, It's Time We

Evangelicals have a talk about Christian nationalism. Stetser and McDonald describe Christian

nationalism as the syncretistic fusion of patriotism and Christianity.

This fusion claims that America enjoys providential favor or blessings above other nations,

a belief which the authors correctly note is unbiblical.

They add that Christian nationalism incorporates national identity into the mission

of the church. In so doing, it makes this national vision not only the lens by which we

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