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I’m Raymond Smith — Bible teacher, author, and disciple-maker. I built Disciple Blueprint for believers who want more than Sunday morning.
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Yesterday we told the story of the 1962 case that started sixty years of God being pushed out of American public life. Today we bring that story into a life — with three specific stories from a career in corporate America — and then we look at something most Christians haven't heard enough about: the tide is starting to turn.
The episode opens with the honest story of a 1980s divorce that was finalized without ever meeting an attorney, a 2015 conversation with a boss on the morning after the White House was lit in rainbow colors, and a 2020 corporate email requiring preferred pronouns in every employee's signature. Three moments across three decades — the personal witness of what the sixty-year trajectory actually looked like from inside one man's working life.
Then the episode turns to what a lot of Christians haven't been watching: three Supreme Court decisions in 2022 and 2023 that started reversing the trajectory. Kennedy v. Bremerton returned to teachers the right to pray on public property. 303 Creative v. Elenis said the government cannot compel speech that violates a Christian's conscience. Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health overturned fifty years of federal abortion policy and returned the question to the states.
And there's more. In the same window those three rulings came down, something else has been happening across the country — a growing revival on college campuses, churches in Texas, California, and Florida reporting baptism numbers they haven't seen in decades, and young men returning to church in numbers that have caught pastors off guard.
The war isn't over. But God is moving.
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Read this week's companion blog posts:
- https://discipleblueprint.com/when-you-cant-feel-gods-hope-start-here/
- https://discipleblueprint.com/how-america-turned-from-god-and-i-watched-it-happen/
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