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The Miracle Fog #RTTBROS #Nightlight #USA250 #Nation250 #America250 The Miracle Fog And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these. — Exodus 14:20 THE STORY By the night of August 29th, 1776, the American cause was almost certainly finished. Washington's army had been routed at the Battle of Lon...

The General on His Knees #RTTBROS #Nightlight #USA250 #Nation250 #America250 The General on His Knees And it came to pass, when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees. — 1 Kings 8:54 THE STORY Isaac Potts did not mean to see it. The Quaker farmer was riding through the woods near Vall...

The Prayer #RTTBROS #Nightlight #USA250 #Nation250 #America250 The Prayer That Moved a Convention Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it. — Psalm 127:1 THE STORY It was the summer of 1787, and the Constitutional Convention was on the verge of collapse. The delegates had been arguing for weeks. The small states and the large states were deadlocked. The entire enterprise...

Give Me Liberty #RTTBROS #Nightlight #USA250 #Nation250 #America250 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. — Proverbs 28:1 THE STORY Most people know the last line. Very few know what came before it. Patrick Henry's speech to the Virginia Convention on March 23rd, 1775, is remembered for its thunderous conclusion: "Give me liberty, or give me death!&qu...

The Shot and the Prayer Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and courageous. Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. — Joshua 1:9 THE STORY The night before the battle, Captain John Parker gathered his men. It was April 18th, 1775, and the British regulars were on the march from Boston. Parker's militia, farmers, tradesmen, ordinary...

The Danger of Silencing The Holy Spirit #RTTBROS #Nightlight #Faith #holyspirit #Hardsayings

The Preacher Who Emptied Franklin's Pockets #America250 #Nation250 #Nightlight #RTTBROS “How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?"” — Romans 10:14 THE STORY Benjamin Franklin did not believe everything George Whitefield preached. He said so himself. But he admi...

The Awakening Before the Revolution #RTTBROS #America250 #Nation250 #America #NIGHTLIGHT “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh.” — Acts 2:17 THE STORY Before there was a revolution, there was a revival. Between 1730 and 1745, a wave of spiritual awakening swept through the American colonies with a force that no one had anticipated and n...

The Praying Governor #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #AMERICA250 #NATION250 "They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep." — Psalm 107:23-24 THE STORY William Bradford kept a journal for thirty years. He began it in the bitter winter of 1620 and wrote through the decades of struggle, loss, harvest, and hope th...

Before They Left the Ship #RTTBROS #Nightlight "O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." — Psalm 107:1 THE STORY November 11, 1620. The Mayflower sat anchored in the cold waters off Cape Cod, and nothing was going according to plan. The Pilgrims had intended to settle in Virginia, under the jurisdiction of an existing charter. But storms and navigati...

He Is Still The Same #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT

#Nightlight #RTTBROS The Fire in the Pulpits "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people." — Proverbs 14:34 (KJV) Back in the 1830s, a sharp French philosopher named Alexis de Tocqueville made the long voyage across the Atlantic to figure out what made this young American experiment tick. He was genuinely curious, not cynical, and he looked everywhere you'd...

Give 'Em Watts! #RTTBROS #Nightlight "The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him." — Psalm 28:7 It was June of 1780, and the situation on the ground at the Battle of Springfield, New Jersey, was getting desperate. British forces were pressing hard, American soldiers were out...

The Math of Contentment #RTTBROS #Nightlight "But godliness with contentment is great gain." — 1 Timothy 6:6 You know, I was praying the other day and I caught myself doing something I'm not real proud of. My prayer had turned into what I used to call on Hee Haw, Lulu's never-ending shopping list. You remember that old sketch, just going on and on, asking for this and that, never...

Nature Psalms #RTTBROS #NightLight

Trust God's Heart #RTTBROS #Nightlight #grace #Trials #Suffering

From infants to infantry Eph 6 #RTTBROS #Nightlight

Unhealed Wounds Nightlight with RTTBROS "Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled." Hebrews 12:15 (KJV) I heard a line recently that stopped me cold. I've been turning it over ever since. Here it is: if you don't heal what hurt you, you will bleed on people who didn't cut you. N...

First Things First #RTTBROS #Nightlight "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." — Matthew 6:33 In 1871, the same year Chicago was burning, a young civil engineer named William LeBaron Jenney was watching it all and thinking about what the rebuilding would require. Jenney had studied in France and had some ideas that wer...

Have Patience #NIGHTLIGHT #RTTBROS #temper #anger #patient

Short Fuse #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #anger #temper #spiritualwarfare

Sub Mission #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #Marriage #Family #Submissio

He Gets Us #RTTBROS #Nightlight "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." — Hebrews 4:15 Eric Liddell is one of the most remarkable Christian athletes who ever lived. Most people know him from the film Chariots of Fire, the Scottish sprinter who refused to run on Sunday at t...

He Still Speaks to the Storm #RTTBROS #Nightlight "And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm." — Mark 4:39 I want to tell you about a little girl named Clara. She couldn't have been more than five years old. Her family lived in tornado country in the Oklahoma panhandle, and one spring evening a storm ro...

Still Standing #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT#Storms #Trials #Faith