if you don't stand for something you will fall for anything

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Take a Stand By Michele Lentz It’s time to take a stand! In the few minutes that we have together I want to highlight some contemporary challenges that we face as a nation; Problems that I hear people talking about on national and individual levels. Then I want to share some perspective on how others in history have dealt with the challenges of their day and what was at the core of their courage. It may help us with the present day problems we face. Do you feel anxiety about us? Is there an uncertainty regarding what the future holds with the conditions of our economy, the threat of terrorism, and conflicting messages in our pop culture? Everyday we hear about rising unemployment, bank bailouts and government spending on the back of our children and grandchildren. Every major nation on every continent has had to deal with attacks from radical Islamic terrorists, and a look at the news headlines on any given day reminds us that our culture is in trouble. The political rhetoric these days is intense, would you agree? Yet I invite you to consider that enduring solutions are not going to come from expedient politics and the rhetoric that wins the day, but from a return to the  principles upon which our greatest American document, the US Constitution was founded. It is these principles of life and liberty with which we are endowed by our creator, for 

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