Two bicyclists were riding on a California mountain road when suddenly a lion attacked one of the riders.

Judy Dunigan describes the seed.

Her friend grabbed her legs and held on to her and started screaming and other bikers came around and started throwing rocks at the lion and he left and of course she was injured but she was saved.

We'll find out what that scary moment has to do with the spiritual battle you and I are in today on the

Revive Our Hearts Podcast for July 4th 2023. Our host is the author of

Adorned living out the beauty of the gospel together.

Nancy Damas Walgemuth.

Well, here in the United States, we're celebrating our nation's

247th birthday today. On July 4th, 1776,

representatives of the 13 American colonies signed what we know is the Declaration of Independence.

That document, along with other foundational documents, forms the basis for our national sense

of identity.

And if you live in another country,

you have similar things you look to in your nation's history,

things that help your country define who you are as a group. But I want to remind us that there's an even more

profound identity and even more basic significance for all of us as human beings.

It's our relationship to our Creator God. That's what we're exploring all this month here at

Revive Our Hearts. Specifically, how we as Christians need to find our identity, our sense of purpose, our meaning, not in our

affiliation with one group or another, not even in expressing ourselves as individuals, but in the person of Jesus Christ

and his finished redeeming work.

Well Judy Dunigan is helping us do that in a message she shared in a session at True Woman 22.

The title of that message is also the subtitle of a book she's written,

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