SACRED FIRE---A MUST READ BOOK

If you’ve been reading Practicon’s blogs for some time, you know that I occasionally recommend a book for your reading pleasure.  I urge you to read George Washington’s Sacred Fire by Dr. Peter A. Lillback---read it for pleasure and read it to be astounded by Washington’s steadfast belief that God inspired, led, and blessed the founding of our country. 

This story of our Founding Father, “a leader of such enormous stature and who arouses such passionate emotions, that it is difficult to separate the facts from the fiction”, offers a mountain of comprehensive evidence that Washington was an 18^th century Anglican, a devout Christian. 

By actual measurement, the paperback version of  Sacred Fire is a hair less than 2¼” thick.  Though it’s not exactly “light” reading, this incredible volume fascinates and involves the reader in Washington’s life, his times, training, convictions, faith, honor, and sense of duty, written largely in Washington’s own words.  Without these personal characteristics and his inspired leadership ability, it’s doubtful that our country would have won the Revolutionary War and become a free nation. 

A number of “scholars” over the past 40 to 50 years have claimed Washington a Deist, not a Christian.  Learn the facts for yourself as you read the overwhelming evidence that Washington was indeed a strong Christian.  I believe you will enjoy this book as it provides a marvelous journey into the early days of our Republic, and how one man became the pivot point around which our freedom was secured.