Lobsters and lumberjacks on July 4: Is America an exceptional country?
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 5 July 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR JULY 5, 2019
God has entrusted America with remarkable resources. Today's podcast describes some of these gifts and shows us how to turn from self-reliance to Spirit-dependence as we serve God's glory and the common good.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.6 | Today is July 5th, 2019, and I have one question. |
| 0:24.2 | Is America an exceptional country? |
| 0:26.6 | From lobster races in Maine to a golf cart parade on Catalina Island |
| 0:30.6 | and a lumberjack competition in Pennsylvania, |
| 0:33.8 | Americans spent yesterday celebrating our nation's independence. |
| 0:39.8 | President Trump, speaking before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, declared, we will never forget that we are Americans, and the future |
| 0:45.8 | belongs to us. The future belongs to the brave, the strong, the proud, and the free. |
| 0:52.5 | 243 years ago, 56 brave men pledged our lives, our fortune, and our sacred honor to adopt the |
| 1:01.5 | Declaration of Independence. |
| 1:03.5 | Their act that day in Philadelphia changed the course of the world. |
| 1:06.8 | The United States became the first nation in history to be founded on an idea, the principle |
| 1:12.6 | of freedom. From then to today, America has been an exceptional country. Is this a God-given |
| 1:19.6 | fact? If so, why? I researched that question recently. Here is what I found. |
| 1:24.6 | Our God-given geography is exceptional. |
| 1:30.9 | The greater Mississippi basin with the intercoastal waterway |
| 1:34.0 | has more miles of navigable internal waterways than the rest of the world combined. |
| 1:39.5 | This is important because transporting goods by water is significantly cheaper than overland. |
| 1:45.0 | The American Midwest is the world's largest contiguous piece of farmland. |
| 1:49.0 | The American Atlantic coast possesses more major ports than the rest of the Western Hemisphere combined. |
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