REVIEWS

“Thomas W. Jacobson’s Fire at the Founding is a powerful book revealing the spiritual motivation of the courageous leaders who sacrificed to give us our nation. It is vital for leaders today to rediscover this treasure. I highly recommend every American read Jacobson’s Fire at the Founding to preserve our freedoms. President Coolidge declared in 1926: ‘The principles … which went into the Declaration of Independence ... are found in the texts, the sermons, and the writings of the early colonial clergy … They preached equality because they believed in the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. They justified freedom by the text that we are all created in the divine image … In those days such doctrines would scarcely have been permitted to flourish and spread in any other country ... The Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document ... Unless the faith of Americans in these religious convictions endures, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We cannot continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause ... The things of the spirit come first.’” 

– William J. Federer, best-selling author of America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations

“Thomas Jacobson has given us a book that is needed by the church and our nation in such a time as this.  It’s obvious that what the author has uncovered through these powerful writings, is responsible for America being a nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles.  These preachers came from the time in our country when freedom and righteousness were being established.  Without their preaching and writing, American would not be America.  Their influence far exceeded their role as the spiritual leader within their congregation but spilled out into the culture and political life of early America.  And our uniqueness as a nation with the principles of hard work, honesty, limited government, respect for authority, and charity for their neighbors, was not only taught, but lived out by these Christian leaders.  They were the leaders of our country.  The application to us today is we need to get back to the principles that these Preachers lived out.  It’s all provided for us in this very readable prose. It gives us the recipe for starting a revival, first in our own families, our places of worship, and public arena. We talk of revival, and we need it.  This book gives us the clear road map for it.  It’s a must read.”

– J. Michael Smith, President Emeritus, Home School Legal Defense Association 

"Jacobson has crafted a well-researched treatise on the spiritual roots that brought forth America. There is no way to overstate the role the Clergy had in fashioning the intellectual framework and the cultural expectations that founded this country. Many of them missed the glaring hypocrisy of forming a free nation on the economic engine of enslaved Africans, but not all. The meat this book serves to the plate of everyone who reads it, is worth navigating around the distasteful bones of our American history. Buy it. Read it. Work it!"   

-- Brett Fuller, Bishop, Grace Covenant Church, Chantilly, Virginia (www.gracecov.org)
Co-Chaplain, Washington Commanders
 

“Fire At The Founding is an awesome history of our nation, how and why it was founded on Christian beliefs and doctrine.  To disregard our history is our path to destruction as a nation.  This book reflects on 1700s clergy of America, who foretold what would happen to a nation if it did not get right with God, that it would stray away into a sinful nation.  The words they spoke then are a clear picture of what is happening today in America."  

--Steve Santana, Colorado Springs, CO