Paul hears the warnings, sees the grief in his friends, and still says yes to the road ahead. We start with Acts 21 and that gut-level line, “The Lord’s will be done,” because it exposes a question we all live with: do we obey God only when it feels safe, or do we follow Jesus when it costs us comfort, reputation, and control?

From there we talk about memory and moral formation. When a culture refuses to look at evil, it also refuses to learn from it and becomes easier to deceive. We connect that to why history matters, from 9/11 to the way atrocities like the Holodomor get ignored, softened, or forgotten. If we do not teach our kids what happened, they will grow up repeating the same mistakes with fresh confidence.

We also get practical and personal. We read Song of Solomon and talk about marriage, physical intimacy, and what the church often avoids saying out loud. Then we zoom back out to America’s Christian heritage, “separation of church and state,” and key Supreme Court cases that pushed prayer and Bible reading out of public schools, plus what we believe it has done to our national life.

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