The American Soul

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality along with it.  It degrades men from their just rank, into the class of brutes.  It damps their spirits.  It suppresses arts.  It extinguishes every spark of noble ardor and generosity in the breasts of those who are enslaved by it.  It makes naturally-strong and great minds, feeble and little; and triumphs over the ruins of...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Civil tyranny is usually small in its beginning, like “the drop of a bucket,” till at length, like a mighty torrent, or the rag- ing waves of the sea, it bears down all before it, and deluges whole countries and empires.” —Jonathan Mayhew, 1750 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Those nations which are now groaning under the iron scepter of tyranny were once free.” —Mayhew, 1750 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Cope-IV-ebook/dp/B00MPIXOB2   America's Christian Heritage Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/2622483

Drop us a note about the podcast. “…christianity is the only true and perfect religion, and that in proportion as mankind adopt its principles, and obey its precepts, they will be wise, and happy.” —Benjamin Rush Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Cope-IV-ebook/dp/B00MPIXOB2   A...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “…our business is to make them men, citizens and christians.” —Benjamin Rush, 1786 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Cope-IV-ebook/dp/B00MPIXOB2   America's Christian Heritage Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/2622483

Drop us a note about the podcast. “A Christian, Isay again, cannot fail of being a republican, for every precept of the Gospel inculcates those degrees of humility, self-denial, and brotherly kindness, which are directly opposed to the pride of monarchy and the pageantry of a court.” —Benjamin Rush, 1786 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countr...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “…the only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.” —Benjamin Rush, 1786 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “...God commands you to choose for rulers, just men who will rule in the fear of God.  The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; if the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good, so much as for selfish or local...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics…  God cannot sustain this free and blessed country which we love and pray for unless the Church will take right ground.  It seems sometimes as if the foundations of the nation are becoming rotten, and Christians seem to act as if they think God does not see what they...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power, we are resisting the powers of death.  Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties.” —Woodrow Wilson, 1912 Support the show The American Soul Pod...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “ I . . . recommend my Soul to that Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.” —Samuel Adams, Father of the American Revolution  Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-B...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “As my children will have frequent occasion of perusing this instrument, and may probably be peculiarly impressed with the last words of their father, I think proper here, not only to subscribe to the entire belief of the great leading doctrine of the Christian religion, but also in the heart of a father's affection, to charge and exhort them to remember &quo...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.” —Patrick Henry  Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Cope-IV-ebook/dp/B00...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance. Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, bein...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all... Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.” —SAMUEL ADAMS Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Cope-IV-ebook/dp/B00MPIXOB2   America's Christian Heritage P...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “If I were the Prince of Darkness I would want to engulf the whole earth in darkness.  I'd have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population, but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree.  So I should set about however necessary, to take over the United States.” —Paul Harvey, 1964 Support the show The American Soul...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “But by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!” —George Washington  Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “…and so into Thy hands I commend myself, both soul and body, in the name of Thy son, Jesus Christ, beseeching Thee, when this life shall end, I may take my everlasting rest with Thee in Thy heavenly kingdom. Bless all in authority over us, be merciful to all those afflicted with Thy cross or calamity, bless all my friends, forgive my enemies and accept my thanksg...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Bless O Lord the whole race of mankind, and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy Son, Jesus Christ...I beseech Thee to defend me this night from all evil, and do more for me than I can think or ask, for Jesus Christ sake, in whose most holy Name and Words, I continue to pray, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name...” —George Wa...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “…and since Thou art a God of pure eyes, and will be sanctified in all who draw nearer to Thee, who dost not regard the sacrifice of fools, nor hear sinners who tread in Thy courts, pardon I beseech Thee, my sins, remove them from Thy presence, as far as the east is from the west, and accept of me for the merits of Thy son Jesus Christ…” —George Washington, Person...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man, will endeavor so to live, and act, as becomes a Christian Soldier defending the dearest Rights and Liberties of his country.” —General George Washington, 1776 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Bo...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future; in this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/su...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God , indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” —Pledge of Allegiance  Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Cope-IV-...

Drop us a note about the podcast. "I must faithfully, patiently, lovingly, and happily do my part-then quietly wait for God to do His." —Ruth Bell Graham  Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Cope-IV-ebook/dp/B00MPIXOB2   America's Christian Heritage Podcast https:/...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The story does not end with the Cross, for Easter points us beyond the tragedy of the Cross to the empty tomb.  It tells us that there is hope for eternal life, for Christ has conquered evil and death, and hell.  Yes, there is hope.” —Billy Graham, 14 Sept 2001 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Boo...