If you had to provide the actual date for America’s first official day, what would you list it as?

Of course, one could easily argue that it was July 4, 1776, when 56 men, representing three million people back home in 13 different colonies of British North America, agreed by voice vote the final wording of the Declaration of Independence. We celebrate America at 250 because of that famous July 4th.

But I would submit a different candidate as the first official day as a nation, as noted below.

Interestingly, this last Sunday was Pentecost Sunday, which coincided as the Sunday before Memorial Day. Pentecost marks the beginning of the Church (worldwide). Memorial Day marks the day we remember those men and women who died in service to their country, so we could retain our freedoms.

The Day of Pentecost, which took place 2000 years ago, may not seem of interest to many Americans. But I submit that the Bible and the Christian faith played such a pivotal role in the creation of America that we would not have a country without it---certainly not one with as much freedom and prosperity.

J. Vernon McGee, whose radio broadcasts, “Through the Bible with J. Vernon McGee,” have edified millions, said this about the Day of Pentecost: “Five minutes before the Holy Spirit came on the Day of........

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