Martin Luther initially espoused the Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms and denounced religious persecution. However, within a few years, he reduced the Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms to nothing more than empty rhetoric. Even worse, he embraced religious persecution against both the Jews and Anabaptists.
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David Bercot. John Calvin never set foot in America. Yet, few men have had as great of an influence on the founding of America. Puritanism—and its influence on America—was formed on the forges of Geneva. But was Geneva a model for the Kingdom of God?
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Many Christians in America imagine that all would be wonderful if committed evangelical Christians ran the country. Well, we don’t have to speculate as to what the results would be. For there was a period when conservative Christians did rule a nation—England! The results fell far short of a utopian society.
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What prompted the English to come to America? Spiritual reasons? Economic ones? Or a combination of both? What sort of societies did the original colonists form? Did they treat the native inhabitants as Christ would have?
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David Bercot. Many Christians imagine that colonial New England was a godly society filled with committed Christians. It’s certainly true that the church was one of the strongest institutions in New England during this period. Yet, colonial New England was also a society of wealth, covetousness, and large alcohol consumption. These colonists were also a quick-tempered people who sued one another frequently. See more below.
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David Bercot. “A Kingdom Perspective On The Causes of the American Revolution.” In American History classes, we’ve all studied the causes of the Revolution: the Stamp Act, the mercantile system, the Navigation Acts, the Sugar Act, the quartering of soldiers in homes, the Boston Massacre, and the Intolerable Acts. But we never studied these “causes” from a kingdom perspective.
What did Jesus teach about paying taxes? About subjection to government authorities? About returning evil for evil? In this message, Bercot not only analyzes the causes of the Revolution, including matters we didn’t learn in history class, but he does so from a kingdom perspective.
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David Bercot. Did it take a miracle from God for the colonists to prevail against England? Not in the least. Bercot explains the real reasons why the Americans won their war for independence.
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David Bercot. The Losers—The Ones Who Suffered Because of the American Victory. The revolutionists won the war, but many of the people who lived in America suffered tremendously as a result. Among these were the Indians, Loyalists, blacks, and nonresistant Christians.
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David Bercot. Kingdom Christians like the Quakers, Mennonites, and Brethren came to America to gain religious freedom. Most of them settled in Pennsylvania, where they were guaranteed freedom to practice authentic Christianity, as described in the Sermon on the Mount. However, during the War, the revolutionists took away the basic freedoms these nonresistant colonists had been guaranteed.
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In this message, David Bercot discusses the religious convictions of four key founding fathers who were conventional Christians: Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay.
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George Washington attended the Episcopal Church while he served as President. Yet, he kept his religious beliefs to himself. David Bercot discusses what Washington’s personal diary reveals about his spiritual nature, as well as the truth about Washington praying in the snow at Valley Forge.
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In this audio message, David Bercot looks at the Founding Fathers who were either deists or fence-sitters (taking no clear position on Christianity). Benjamin Franklin was a Deist who had strong faith in God, but never believed in the Deity of Christ. John Adams was a Unitarian. Madison kept his beliefs to himself. Jefferson and Thomas Paine were staunch Deists.
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David Bercot. Did you know that God is never mentioned in the U.S. Constitution? Bercot demonstrates that this was no accidental omission. Rather, he was deliberately left out by the framers of the Constitution.
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