Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. Yesterday we told the true story of St. Patrick's Day.

And right after we did that episode, or a little bit after, I saw the press release that was issued by

this White House. And the press release said more than 1,600 years ago, St. Patrick ventured through the Emerald Fields and

ancient valleys of Ireland to introduce the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Celtic people.

Over his life, he courageously withstood years of persecution and threats on his life,

yet continued to bring hearts, minds, and souls to the Christian faith.

I've never heard an administration in my lifetime talk about St. Patrick's Day like that.

That was very encouraging to hear.

I look forward to, at the very least, this is a small thing of presidential proclamation,

but further acknowledgement

and other aspects of our culture as well, the holy aspects of the holidays that we have

in our nation. It's about returning to our roots, and that's a beautiful thing. I also like

the point that we also made yesterday that he did not care about the threats on his life.

That did not matter to him.

He knew that God was going to protect him, no matter what he did, for as long as God wanted him on this earth.

And this ties into this theme that we've had this last week.

And this will be my last point on it for now, maybe, I think, about not being scared of dying.

It started with talking about COVID five years ago this week.

And that was the biggest revelation to me is that people are terrified of death.

But we shouldn't be.

Christians, we shouldn't be.

We should be a model example of not being terrified of

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