Our nation celebrates and mourns the days that shape our national character. We remember sorrowful days like December 7^th, 1941 or September 11, 2001, and joyful days like July 4^th, 1776. The danger of forgetting is serious. The more we are separated from our past, either by "new history" or a careless obsession with the present, the more we lose our identity as a nation.

This article is not about losing our national identity through reinterpretations of the past or through the growing academic hatred for America's history and heroes, as serious as that may be. My concern regards the lost identity of the evangelical church in forgetting the Reformation.

In our postmodern culture, reprobate intellectualism finds the Biblical idea of God to be odious and loathsome. Recently, the hostility of unbelieving thought has intensified in the public arena through the promotion of skepticism and atheism in the books and articles of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and others.

"And he said, 'Please, show me Your glory.'" - Exodus 33:18

"Surely the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire." - Deuteronomy 5:24

A Bible is one of the greatest gifts anyone can receive! Though it was written by forty human authors over a period of 1600 years, they are all united by the Divine authorship that superintended their writing, so that using their own personality and vocabulary they recorded the revelation of God without error. Imagine it! God has written a book so that generations living after the prophets and apostles can know Him. St. Augustine spoke truly, "The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home."

How the Cultural Christ Dominates the Religious Landscape

The southern writer Flannery O'Connor said, "By and large, people in the South still conceive of humanity in theological terms. While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted."