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Well Charlie and Kenny, not Brett, came to tears.

And I'm going to talk about tears.

And let me tell you why, the rivers that came together to incline me to say what I'm going to say for these

next 20 minutes or so. Noel and I and the David and Karen Livingston were immersing ourselves for

two days last week in Abraham Lincoln lore in Springfield, Illinois and New Salem.

And there's a new Abraham and there's a new Abraham Lincoln Museum, which I recommend highly.

It's the most remarkable museum I've ever visited because of the two theaters that are in it.

And there's a wall, not very large, 20 feet across, maybe,

covered with, took a picture of one of them, with vile opprobrium

dumped on Abraham Lincoln in the press.

For example, Lincoln's speeches consist of condensed lumps of imbecility, buffoonery, and vulgar malignity.

Richmond Examiner, March 4, 1861.

Dozens of them all over the wall from all the papers across the country not all the papers but lots of

papers.

Which was very good for me to see because we do not live in a unique time.

If you're young and you're not aware of Abraham Lincoln

and lots of controversies along the way, you would think the hostilities and the

polarization of our political environment right now is just as bad in my lifetime

as it has ever been.'s true that's 73 years but it's been worse in times past

the question for all the t c c and pastors and lay people is how do we orient ourselves?

How do we talk? How do we think? How do we feel in that milieu? What effect does it happen? I heard Tim Keller say

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